The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI is a national university founded in October 1988 as the first institution of higher education to offer graduate-only education. While the main office of SOKENDAI is located at Hayama, Kanagawa, its branch offices are dispersed among 20 research institutions, each of which offers top-quality graduate study in a specialized field ranging from humanities and social sciences to natural sciences.
The National Instutite of Informatics is one of the 20 institutions accepting and educating graduate students by belonging to the Program in Informatics of SOKENDAI since April 2002.
The Informatics Program covers a broad areas of research including the principles of informatics, architecture of information systems, software engineering, multimedia systems, intelligent systems, and information society and environment.