Established in 1877, the University of Tokyo was ranked the 34th best university in the world in the QS World University Rankings® 2016-2017. Home to 10 faculties, spread across five campuses, the university is particularly well-regarded for a wide range of subjects. It’s considered to be in the top ten universities in the world for the following subjects, according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2017: modern languages, mechanical, aeronautical & manufacturing engineering, anatomy & physiology, pharmacy & pharmacology, physics & astronomy, social policy & administration.
UNDERGRADUATE
The University of Tokyo is made up of the following faculties:
Law
Medicine
Engineering
Letters
Science
Agriculture
Economics
Arts and Sciences
Education
Pharmaceutical Sciences
POSTGRADUATE
There are several graduate schools at the University of Tokyo. These are:
Humanities and Sociology
Education
Law and Politics
Economics
Arts and Sciences
Science
Engineering
Agricultural and Life Sciences
Medicine
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Mathematical Sciences
Frontier Sciences
Information Science and Technology
Interdisciplinary Information Studies
Public Policy
There are also nearly a dozen research institutes at the university, including the Earthquake Research Institute and the Institute for Solid State Physics.
The University of Tokyo was formed in 1877 when the Tokyo Kaisei School and Tokyo Medical School merged to created the faculties of law, science, letters and medicine, which came together with a university preparatory school.
Since then the University of Tokyo has merged with a number of schools and institutions to grow into a large research university.
It is made up of 10 faculties, 15 graduate schools, 11 affiliated research institutes, 13 university-wide centres, three affiliated libraries and two institutes for advanced study and the University of Tokyo Hospital.
The university has just over 450 international exchange agreements with universities from all over the world.
The University of Tokyo can count eight Nobel prize winners, 15 Japanese prime ministers and five astronauts among its alumni.
The University of Tokyo, also known as UTokyo or Todai, is a Japanese national university that was founded in 1877. The university has three main campuses – the Hongo, Komaba and Kashiwa campuses – and additional facilities located in other parts of Japan. The university is affiliated with two hospitals: the University Hospital and the Institute of Medical Science Hospital. In a recent year, roughly half of the student body was studying at the undergraduate level. Tuition costs are the same for domestic and international students, and some university student housing is available.
UTokyo has 10 main academic divisions for undergraduate education: agriculture, arts and sciences, economics, education, engineering, law, letters, medicine, pharmaceutical sciences and science. Undergraduates take liberal arts courses during their first two years of studies and specialize during the last two years. Of the university’s 15 graduate schools, 10 are closely related to corresponding undergraduate divisions. The other five graduate schools focus on frontier sciences, information science and technology, interdisciplinary information studies, mathematical sciences and public policy. The university’s academic calendar has four terms. The primary language of instruction is Japanese, but a few undergraduate programs and even more graduate-level programs are taught in English. The English-taught graduate offerings include an international program in economics as well as a program in architecture and urban design. UTokyo’s research centers and affiliated institutes include the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia and the Center for Spatial Information Science.
