On Thursday, March 24, 2022, a graduation ceremony was held in the Millennium Hall and 353 students received their diplomas.

This year's graduation ceremony was reduced in scale and held in three parts for students of each division, to prevent the spread of new coronavirus infections.

At the ceremony, President SHIOZAKI conferred diplomas to the representatives of each division and gave all the graduates a congratulatory speech, and guests also made cerebrating speech to the graduates. After that, the representatives of each division replied the valedictorian speech.

Then Best Student Awards were awarded to 14 selected students by Managing Director Masuda on behalf of the Foundation for NAIST.

This year, congratulatory concert was held by volunteer students and celebrate their departure.

Also, by distributing the ceremony in real time over the Internet and opening the venue after the ceremony for commemorative pictures where many graduates came and took memorial photos with their supervisors and younger students.

*Number of graduates in March

［Master's graduates］

Division of Information Science 128 (16 International students)
Division of Biological Science 95 (4 International students)
Division of Materials Science 84 (2 International students)

［Doctoral graduates］

Division of Information Science 22 (11 International students)
Division of Biological Science 11 (4 International students)
Division of Materials Science 13 (3 International students)

Total 353

Click on the links below to view the congratulatory remarks of each speaker.

【Congratulatory remarks NAIST President】

【Congratulatory remarks Chairperson of the NAIST Alumni Association】

【Congratulatory remarks Chairperson of Foundation for the Nara Institute of Science and Technology】