In this Graduate School, 1 principal supervisor and 2 vice-advisors (one is a faculty member of the other university), making up a total of 3 faculty, will be in charge of 1 graduate school student; and students may use the facilities of both universities.

The requirement for a “doctoral degree (veterinary medicine)” is to earn at least 30 credits (10 credits or more in courses offered by the other university) from the education curriculum of the Graduate School, and undertake the necessary research training; followed by doctoral degree thesis review, and to pass the final exam on the thesis detail and field of expertise. Those who have completed the course of the Graduate School will be granted a doctoral degree (veterinary science) under the names of Gifu University and Tottori University.