Japanese have had compulsory education in Japan for more than a hundred years. All Japanese children are required to go to school for nine years, beginning at age six. There are six years of elementary school, three years of junior high school, and three years of senior high school. Almost ninety-six percent of all those completing junior high go on to high school.
There are about six hundred junior colleges and over five-hundred universities in Japan. About thirty-eight percent of those graduating from high schools go on to junior colleges or universities.
About half of the universities have graduate schools, so there are about two hundred fifty, but the number is increasing. They offer both master's degrees and doctorates. There are approximately a hundred forty thousand graduate students in Japan.
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