Osaka does not have a single official “total” unless you specify the school type, because counts differ for kindergartens, elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools, special-needs schools, vocational schools, and universities. For Osaka City specifically, the city’s school-status report says the numbers can differ from Osaka Prefecture’s statistics and notes the figures are provisional.

What I can say now

  • For higher education , one source lists 58 universities, 21 junior colleges, 1 technical college, and 108 medical-related vocational colleges in Osaka Prefecture.
  • For universities in Osaka Prefecture , one study-support directory shows 41 schools in total on the page it returned, but that is only a directory page count, not the full school total for all levels.
  • For Osaka City school statistics , the city publishes annual school-condition data, but the snippet does not provide the grand total in the search result alone.

Best answer

If you mean all schools across every level in Osaka , the honest answer is that there isn’t one clean number from the snippets alone, because the official sources separate the counts by category and by city vs. prefecture.

Practical takeaway

  • Osaka Prefecture total schools: needs an official breakdown by school type to sum correctly.
  • Osaka City total schools: also needs the city’s full table, since the search snippet only confirms the report exists and that figures are provisional.

Would you like the total for Osaka Prefecture , Osaka City , or just universities and colleges?