Founded in 1869, 1897, it officially became a national university in Japan with a university degree. The abbreviation of university is "Jingda". It is the second national university in Japan after Tokyo University.

There are many first-class scientific research institutions in Kyoto University, such as iPS Cell Research Institute, RIMS Institute of Mathematical Analysis, and Kyoto University Institute of Disaster Prevention. As one of the highest institutions of learning in Japan, Kyoto University enjoys a high reputation in the world and is known as the "cradle of scientists".

Nuclear scientific research

In nuclear science research, American scholars have to admit that Kyoto University has always been at the forefront of the world in both theoretical research and engineering application research.

Organizationally, Kyoto University has nuclear engineering department of the Ministry of Engineering, nuclear and elementary particles of the Ministry of Rationality and other disciplines, as well as research centers with the participation of many institutions such as Atomic Energy Research Institute, Nuclear Reactor Research Institute, Spiral Physics Research Center and Basic Physics Research Institute, with first-class researchers and first-class research facilities.

The nuclear reactor research institute's nuclear reactor with a thermal power of 5000 kilowatts and various other experimental devices can be used by 5000 researchers every year. The Japanese government spent 8 billion yen to build the world's largest nuclear fusion reactor with a temperature as high as100000 degrees at the spiral Puyi Nuclear Fusion Research Center. Coupled with the research of heavy carbon isotope resource transformation project, it has taken an important step for Japan to develop new energy and save energy.