The total enrollment in the university is more than 8,500 with more than 500 overseas students pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate studies.

Saitama university has two satellite campuses: To provide aspiring overseas students an opportunity to pursue higher education in Japan, International Graduate Program on Civil and Environmental Engineering was launched by the Graduate School of Science and Engineering in 1992.

It offers opportunities to highly qualified students from overseas to pursue graduate studies and do research in various disciplines of environmental science and civil engineering.

The graduate program includes courses specially designed for international students, in which class instruction and research supervision are given in English and/or Japanese.

So far, 215 students from different countries have graduated from this program and are now engaged in academic and professional activities in different parts of the world.