University of Tokyo

The University of Tokyo shortened as Todai, is a research university situated in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. The university has 10 faculties with overall of around 30,000 students among them 2,100 are foreign students. Its 5 college grounds are in Hongo, Komaba, Kashiwa Shirokane and Nakano. It is the initial of Japan's National Seven Universities. It is graded as the top in Asia and 21st in the world according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015. The University of Tokyo is broadly believed to be the most prominent university in Japan.

History

The university was licensed by the Meiji government in 1877 under its present name by combining older government schools for medicine and Western learning. In 1886, it was renamed "the Imperial University, and in 1897, Tokyo Imperial when the Imperial University system was formed. In 1923September, an earthquake and the following fires demolished about 700,000 volumes of the Imperial University Library. The books lost comprise the Hoshino Library a compilation of about 10,000 books. The books were the ex- property of HOshino Hisashi before becoming part of the library of the university and were majorly about Chinese philosophy and history.In 1947, after Japan's conquer in World War II; it re-presumed its original name. With the start of the new university system in 1949, Todai gulp downed up the ex-First Higher School (present's Komaba campus) and the ex Tokyo Higher School, which therefore presumed the duty of teaching first- and second-year undergraduates, while third- and fourth-year students  were taken care by the faculties on Hongo main. Eventhough the university was founded during the Meiji period; it has prior roots in the Astronomy Agency in 1684, Shoheizaka Study in 1797, and the Western Books Translation Agency in 1811. These organisations were government offices founded by Tokugawa shogunate (1603–1867), and played an major role in the importation and conversion of books from Europe.

KIkuchi Dairoku, an significant figure in Japanese education, served as head of Tokyo Imperial University. For the 1964 Summer Olympics, the university organized the running section of the modern pentathlon event. On 2012 January20, Todai proclaimed that it would move the beginning of its educational year from April to September to ally its calendar with the international standard. The modification would be phased in over five years. According to the Japan Times, in February 2012, the university had 1,282 professors, of them, 58 were women. In the fall of 2012 and for the first time, the University of Tokyo initiated two undergraduate programs completely taught in English and stuffed toward international students — Programs in English at Komaba (PEAK) — the International Program on Japan in East Asia and the International Program on Environmental Sciences. 

Organization

Faculties

• Agriculture
• Arts and Sciences
• Economics
• Education
• Engineering
• Law
• Letters
• Medicine
• Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Science

Graduate schools

• Agricultural and Life Sciences
• Arts and Sciences
• Economics
• Education
• Engineering
• Frontier Sciences
• Humanities and Sociology
• Information Science and Technology
• Interdisciplinary Information Studies
• Law and Politics
• Mathematical Science
• Medicine
• Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Public Policy
• Science

Research institutes

• Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute
• Earthquake Research Institute
• Historiographical Institute
• Institute for Cosmic Ray Research
• Institute for Solid State Physics
• Institute of Industrial Science
• Institute of Medical Science
• Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
• Institute of Oriental Culture
• Institute of Social Science
• Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology

    The University's School of Science and the Earthquake Research Institute are both represented on the national Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction. 

Ranking

In 2012, Academic Ranking of World Universities graded the University of Tokyo 1st in Asia and 20th in the world.  In 2013,Times Higher Education World University Rankings graded the University of Tokyo 27th in the world and in 20131st in the Asia University ranking. Times Higher Education World University Rankings graded the institution 23rd in the world in 2015. QS World University Rankings in 2011 graded the University of Tokyo 25th in the world (in 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and QS World University Rankings parted ways to produce separate rankings). In the 2011 QS Asian University Rankings, which uses a different methodology, the University of Tokyo came 4^th. Global University Ranking graded the University of Tokyo 3rd in the world and 1st in Asia. Human Resources and Labor Review, a human competitiveness index & analysis published in Chasecareer Network, graded the university 21st internationally and 1st in Asia in 2010. Mines Paris Tech: Professional Ranking World Universities graded the University of Tokyo 2nd in the world on the basis of the number of alumni listed among CEOs in the 500 largest worldwide companies. Nature Publishing Index (2011) graded the University of Tokyo 5th in the world in 2011.