1 Chome-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture 305-8571, Japón
+81 29-853-2111
http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/
Vision/Mission
The University of Tsukuba aims to be an open university in all aspects, and we are a frontrunner in the university reform in Japan. Our fundamental principle is to create a flexible education and research structure, as well as a university system to meet the needs of the next generation. We aspire to be a comprehensive university, continuously meeting new challenges and developing new areas. The foremost mission of a university is to provide an environment that allows future leaders to realize their potential in full. The University of Tsukuba gives students the opportunity to develop their individuality and skills through an education that is backed by cutting-edge research. Toward this end, we set the following goals.
1. We aim to actively expand interdisciplinary and integrative approaches to education research, further specialized expertise, and produce distinguished research.
2. We aim to provide an environment that allows future leaders to realize their potential in full and gives them the opportunity to develop their individuality and skills through education that is backed by cutting-edge research.
3. As the core of Tsukuba Science City, with its concentration of scientific research institutes, we aim to promote collaboration among industry, academia and government, and actively contribute to society while continuing to strengthen our education and research capacity.
4. Promotion of basic and applied research with scientific and social values, and research contributing to the inheritance of science and culture for the next generation.
5. Our university has links with countries and regions all over the world, and we aim to become a university with a high international reputation and influence by actively promoting world-class education and research activities and collaborative interaction.
6. We take the initiative in university reform through collaborative work between staff and faculty members and valuing their individuality and abilities.
Business Description
The University of Tsukuba was one of the first institutes of higher education in Japan, being established in 1872. It is also one of the most comprehensive research universities in Japan, located in the city of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, in the Kantō region of Japan. The University has 9 schools, 23 colleges (undergraduate courses) and 9 graduate schools with a total of around 16,500 students (as of 2014). The main Tsukuba campus covers an area of 258 hectares (636 acres), making it the second largest single campus in Japan. The branch campus is located in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, which offers graduate programs for working adults in the capital and manages K-12 schools in Tokyo that are attached to the university.
Background
Our university was established in October 1973, due to the relocation of its antecedent, the Tokyo University of Education, to the Tsukuba area. As a comprehensive university in Japan, established under a countrywide university reform plan, the university has featured "openness" with "new systems for education and research" under a "new university administration." The university reform plays a major role in our continuing effort for improvement. We are striving to create a unique, active, and internationally competitive university with superlative education and research facilities.
Products/Services
School of Humanities and Culture
School of Social and International Studies
School of Human Sciences
School of Life and Environmental Sciences
School of Science and Engineering
School of Informatics
School of Medicine and Medical Sciences
School of Health and Physical Education
School of Art and Design
Industry
Education and research.
Location
Tsukuba Campus
1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577
Tokyo Bunkyo School Building
3-29-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-0012
Overseas Offices in:
Almaty (Kazakhstan)
Beijing (China)
Bonn (Germany)
Bordeaux (France)
Beijing, Shanghai (China)
Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)
Irvine (USA)
Jakarta (Indonesia)
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
São Paulo (Brazil)
Taipei (Taiwan)
Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
Tunis (Tunisia)
Competitive Advantages
The university boasts its academic strength especially in STEMM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine) and physical education, as well as related interdisciplinary fields by taking advantage of its location in Tsukuba Science City, which has roughly one-third of all national research institutes, including our university. The university had three Nobel laureates (two in physics and one in chemistry) in the past, and about 70 athletes from the university, students and alumni, who have participated in the Olympic Games so far.
Some of the recent initiatives include the establishment of new interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs in Human Biology and Empowerment Informatics, as well as the establishment of the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, whichi were created through the World Premier International Research Center initiative (WPI): the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's competitive funding projects.
Company Goals & Objectives
The University of Tsukuba aims to establish free exchange and close relationships in both basic and applied sciences with educational and research organizations and academic communities in Japan and overseas. While developing these relationships, we intend to pursue education and research to cultivate men and women with creative intelligence and rich human qualities.
The University of Tsukuba endeavors to contribute to the progress of science and culture. Formerly, Japanese universities tended to remain cloistered in their own narrow, specialized fields, creating polarization, stagnation in education and research, and alienation from their communities.
The University of Tsukuba has decided to function as a university that is open to all within and outside of Japan. Toward this end, the university has made it its goal to develop an organization better suiting the functions and administration, with a new concept of education and research highly international in character, rich in diversity and flexibility, and capable of dealing sensitively with the changes occurring in contemporary society.
To realize this, it has vested in its staff and administrative authorities the powers necessary to carry out these responsibilities.
Management
President: Kyosuke Nagata
Employees
Academic staff: 2,616
Administrative staff: 2,284
Students: 16,459
Undergraduates: 9,798
Postgraduates: 6,661
*As of 2014
