University of Tokyo

University of Tokyo

History of University of Tokyo

The University of Tokyo was introduced by Meiji Government in 1877 A.D. while t was renamed the Imperial University in 1886 and again Tokyo Imperial University in 1897. Kikuchi Dairoku served as the president of Tokyo Imperial University. The earthquake in 1923 destroyed about 700,000 volumes of books among which 10,000 books belonged to Hoshino Library. After Japan's defeat in 1947, the university restored at it's original name, "University of Tokyo".

Where is University of Tokyo?

University of Tokyo is full form of Todai which is a research university located at Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. It is exactly located at 7 Chome-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan. 

About University of Tokyo

The current president of the university is Makoto Gonokami managing academic staffs (2429 full time and 175 part time staffs), while 5779 administrative staffs. This university has been a teaching centre for 28697 pupils including 14274 undergraduates, 13732 post graduates, 747 research students and 13732 doctoral students. It ranked 1st in Asia and 20th in the world universities for its better performance.The acceptance rate is 34.2% and the total students enrolled at 2015 was 27955.

The Tuition fee annually for the research student is ¥346,800 per annum and as per auding student : ¥14,800 per credit per year. The Annual fee for undergraduates is ¥535,800, ¥535,800 for 1 year for post graduates, ¥520,800 annually for doctoral studies and ¥804,000 per year for school of law.

There are five campuses in University of Tokyo. Hongo Campus is one the finest campus among them, it is best landmark place of the university. Komamba campus is the college of arts and science. This is the center for undergraduates and is at excellence state for areas of research. The Shirokanedai Campus is smaller in comparison to others which hosts Institute of Medical Science. Kashiwa Campus is the graduate school of Frontier Science. It is made from Trans-disciplinary sciences, Bio-sciences, environmental sciences and Computational Biology. And at last, Nakano Campus is the home of two undergraduate schools: first the School of Global Japanese Studies and the School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences.

Faculties at University of Tokyo

The faculties supporting the University of Tokyo is Law, Medicine, Engineering, Letters, Science, Agriculture, Economics, Arts & Science, Education and Pharmaceutical Science.

Applying to University of Tokyo

For foreign students wanting to studying in Japan for more than 3 months, they should apply for Student Visa. Rather than GPA, or other grading system, a student must take entrance examination. In additions students can be asked for application form, academic transcripts, finance to cover tuition fees, a valid passports, and some passport sized photographs.