The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI

総合研究大学院大学
Type	Public (National)
Established	1988
President	Mariko Hasegawa
Academic staff	1138 academic / 42 supports (As of May 1, 2020)
Undergraduates	None
Postgraduates	543 (As of May 1, 2020)
Location	Hayama , Kanagawa , Japan
Language	Japanese, English
Website	https://www.soken.ac.jp/en

The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI (総合研究大学院大学, Sōgō kenkyū daigakuin daigaku) is one of the national universities of Japan, headquartered in Shonan Village (湘南国際村) in the town of Hayama in Kanagawa Prefecture. Sōkendai (総研大), as it is generally called in its abbreviated form, was established in 1988, with Dr. Saburo Nagakura as its president. SOKENDAI is the first national university in Japan having offered exclusively graduate programs. Graduate students are trained at affiliated research institutes distributed around Japan and the world. It has both five-year doctoral programs for students with a bachelor's degree and three-year programs for those with a master's degree.^[1]