Tokyo Women's Medical University Rankings

Quick Review

Gender

All female

Acceptance rate

10%

Enrollment

1,436

Funding

Private

Highest Degree

Bachelor

Website

www.twmu.ac.jp

Languages

Japanese

Acceptance rate & Admissions

We've calculated the 10% acceptance rate for Tokyo Women's Medical University based on the ratio of admissions to applications and other circumstantial enrollment data. Treat this information as a rough guide and not as a definitive measure of your chances of admission. Different programs may have significantly varying admissions rates.

Programs and Degrees

Notable alumni

1. Koyuki

   

   Born in

   Japan

   Years

   1976-.. (age 48)

   Occupations

   fashion modelmodelfilm actoractor

   Biography

   Koyuki Kato, better known by her stage name Koyuki (小雪), is a Japanese model and actress. She rose to fame in the drama Kimi wa Petto with Jun Matsumoto and gained huge popularity, as well as the hit film The Last Samurai.

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2. Tsai Ah-hsin

   

   Years

   1899-1990 (aged 91)

   Occupations

   physician

   Biography

   Tsai Ah-hsin was colonial Taiwan's first female physician. She graduated from the Tokyo Women's Medical College in 1921 and then completed her residency at the Taihoku Hospital in Japanese Taiwan. In 1924, Tsai married Taiwan independence activist Peng Hua-ying. She founded her own hospital at Taichu in 1925. She created a seminar to train midwives in obstetrics, which was made part of her hospital. However, she had to end the seminar in 1938 as the Japanese, who had invaded northern China in 1937, came to her seminar and forced some of the students to work for them as nurses on the front lines.

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3. Hsu Shih-hsien

   

   Years

   1908-1983 (aged 75)

   Occupations

   politician

   Biography

   Hsu Shih-hsien was a Taiwanese academic and politician.

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4. Utako Okamoto

   

   Born in

   Japan

   Years

   1918-2016 (aged 98)

   Occupations

   physicianacademicscientist

   Biography

   Utako Okamoto was a Japanese medical doctor working as a medical scientist who discovered tranexamic acid in the 1950s in her quest to find a drug that would treat bleeding after childbirth (post-partum haemorrhage). After publishing results in 1962 she became a chair at Kobe Gakuin University, where she worked from 1966 until her retirement in 1990. Okamoto's career was hampered by a very male dominated environment. During her lifetime she was unable to persuade obstetricians at Kobe to trial the antifibrinolytic agent, which had become a drug on the WHO list of essential medicines in 2009. She lived to see the 2010 beginning of the study of tranexamic acid in 20 000 women with post-partum haemorrhage, but died before its completion in 2016 and the publication of tranexamic acids fatality preventing results in 2017, that she had predicted.

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Tokyo Women's Medical University faculties and divisions

General information