After Graduation

A majority of graduates found research jobs such as faculty members or researchers in universities and institutes including JAXA. Other students often found jobs as engineers in companies related to space, etc.

The figure shows the postgraduate career of about 80 students who took doctoral degree in the (Department of) Space and Astronautical Science since the first students graduated in March 2006 (current students are not included).

Examples of careers

Universities and Research institutes	Tohoku University, Akita University, the University of Tokyo, JAXA (ISAS, etc.), University of Aizu, National Institute for Materials Science, Riken, Astrobiology Center/NINS, Univ. of Nottingham
Employment in companies (research, development, etc.)	Canon Electronics Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, Hitachi Ltd., TOYOTA, Astroscale Japan

Research positions includes those of fixed term.