FY2024 Survey on Support for Students with Disabilities in Higher Education

Report on the actual survey results regarding support for students with disabilities in universities, junior colleges, and colleges of technology, published by the Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) on August 8, 2025. This survey aims to understand the situation of students with disabilities (disabled students) and their support status at higher education institutions nationwide, contributing to the enhancement of educational support for disabled students and serving as a basis for considering future measures for disabled student support. The survey targets universities (including professional universities, graduate schools, graduate universities, and specialized courses), junior colleges (including junior college divisions within universities, professional junior colleges, and specialized courses), and colleges of technology (including specialized courses), conducted as a comprehensive survey. Each institution downloaded the survey form from JASSO's website, filled in responses, and submitted via email attachment, with the survey date being May 1, 2024. The response rate achieved 100% with 1,169 responding institutions. As survey overview results, 1,042 institutions (89.1% of all 1,169 institutions) have disabled students enrolled. The number of disabled students is 55,510, representing 1.71% of the total student population of 3,239,826. Additionally, 8,571 disabled students graduated in FY2023. The definition of "disabled students" in this survey refers to students with disability certificates and students whose disabilities have been confirmed through medical diagnosis or health examinations. The survey publishes press releases, result reports, survey guides, survey form preparation guidelines (supplements), and institution-specific survey forms (for universities/graduate schools, junior colleges, and colleges of technology) as reference materials.