Kyoto University, in Kyoto, Japan, was founded in 1897 as Japan’s second imperial university and describes itself as a comprehensive research university. Its introductory brochure gives a student population of 22,700 for 2026. Yasuto Tachikawa became President in October 2026.
Agriculture is taught and researched in the Faculty and Graduate School of Agriculture on the Yoshida North Campus. The faculty was launched in 1923 with six departments, and the graduate school began in 1953. Its undergraduate departments cover bioresource science, applied life sciences, agricultural and environmental engineering, food and environmental economics, forest and biomaterials science, and food science and biotechnology. The school runs an Experimental Farm made up of Kizu farm (about 24.6 ha) in Kizugawa City and Kyoto farm (about 3.5 ha) on the North Campus, which it says collaborates with companies and research institutions, and a 16.5 ha Livestock Farm in Kyotamba Town with about 100 wagyu cattle. Its academic exchange agreements include Harper Adams University in the United Kingdom and IIT Kharagpur in India.