Due to the worldwide internationalization of higher education,top Asian universities are adopting significant changes by establishing cooperative relationships in research and education with top universities throughout the world.
　To join the upper rankings of the Top 100 universities in the world by 2020,Nagoya University seeks to first, increase our faculty members’ peer-reviewed publications with international co-authors and second, to raise the percentage of international faculty on our campus. To make it easier for our researchers to collaborate with those in foreign nations we are establishing an”International Joint Education and Research Unit for the Establishment of Joint Degree Programs ”
　In 2014, the Graduate School of Medicine established a Joint Degree Program with the University of Adelaide in Australia. We hope to use this as a model to expand our partnerships with approximately 20 other research units with which we have a history of exchange.