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Tokyo Institute of Technology
東京工業大学
File:TIT-logo.png
Mottochi, waza, kokorozashi, wa no riko-jin Pursuing Excellence
Motto in English
Here are almost almighty as scientists
TypePublic (National)
Established1881
PresidentProf Ichiro Okura
Academic staff
1,324
Undergraduates4,940
Postgraduates5,096
Location
Meguro Yokohama Tamachi
,
Tokyo Kanagawa
,
Japan
CampusUrban Rural
ColorsRoyal Blue (DIC-641)  
MascotNone
Websitehttp://www.titech.ac.jp/

The Tokyo Institute of Technology (informally Tokyo Tech or Tokodai) is a public research university located in Greater Tokyo Area, Japan. Tokyo Tech is the largest institution for higher education in Japan dedicated to science and technology in Japan. In 2011 it celebrated the 130th anniversary of its founding.[1]

Tokyo Tech's main campus is located in the Ookayama on the boundary of Meguro and Ota, with its main entrance facing the Ookayama station. Other campuses are located in Suzukake and Tamachi. Tokyo Tech is organised into 6 schools, within which there are over 40 departments and resaerch centres.[2]

Tokyo Tech enrolled 4,850 undergaraduates and 5006 graduate students for 2009-2010.[3] It employs around 1400 faculty members. Operating the world-class supercomputer Tsubame 2.0 ,[4] and taking a breakthrough in high-temperature superconductivity, Tokyo Tech is a major centre for supercomputing technology and condensed matter research in the world.

Tokyo Tech is a member of LAOTSE, an international network of leading universities in Europe and Asia exchanging students and senior scholars.

History

Foundation and early years (1881-1923)

Tokyo Institute of Technology was founded by the government of Japan as the Tokyo Vocational School on May 26, 1881,[5] 14 years after the Meiji Restoration. To accomplish the quick catch-up to the West, the government expected this school to cultivate new modernized craftsmen and engineers. In 1890, it was renamed Tokyo Technical School. In 1901, it became Tokyo Higher Technical School.

Great Kanto Earthquake and The World War II

In early days, the school was located in Kuramae, the eastern area of the Greater Tokyo Area, where many craftsmens' workshops had been since the old Shogun's era. Its campus was ruined by the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923. In the following year, the school was moved to Ookayama, a south suburb of the Greater Tokyo Area. In 1929 the school became Tokyo Institute of Technology, gaining a status of national university, which allowed the University to award degrees.

Post War Era (1946-present)

After World War II, the new educational system was promulgated in 1949 and Tokyo Institute of Technology was reorganized. Throughout the post-war reconstruction of the 1950s, the high economic growth era of 1960s, and the aggressive economic animal's era marching to the Bubble Economy of the 1980s, it kept providing Japan its leading engineers, researchers, and business persons. Since April 2004, it has been semi-privatized into the National University Incorporation of Tokyo Institute of Technology under a new law[6] which applied to all national universities.


In its 130 years, Tokyo Tech has provided not only scientific researchers and engineers but also many social leaders, including Naoto Kan who is the present prime minister.

Campuses

Tokyo Tech has three campuses, the Ōokayama campus in Ōokayama Meguro as the main campus, Tamachi campus in Shibaura Minato and the Suzukakedai campus, located in Nagatsuta-cho Midori-ku in Yokohama.

  • Ōokayama Station campus
  • Tamachi campus
  • Suzukakedai campus

Schools and laboratories

Undergraduate schools

The Centennial Hall in Ōokayama campus
  • School of Science
  • School of Engineering
  • School of Bioscience and Biotechnology

Graduate schools

  • Graduate School of Science and Engineering
  • Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology
  • Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering
  • Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering
  • Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology
  • Graduate School of Innovation Management

Research laboratories

  • Chemical Resources Laboratory
  • Precision and Intelligence Laboratory
  • Materials and Structures Laboratory
  • Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors
  • Quantum Nano Electronics Research Centre [7]

Academics

Libraries

The main library of Tokyo Tech is the Tokyo Institute of Technology Library in Ookayama. It is the home of Japan's largest science and technology library. The library was founded in 1882,[7] and it lost nearly 28,000 books during the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923. Moved to Ookayama in 1936, it has been the national science and technology library of Japan.

1,200 students and staff visit the library each day. It has 674,000 books and 2,500 journals, including 1,600 foreign academic journals; the number of international research collections is the largest in Japan. It provides around 7,000 registered electric journals each year. The library is therefore recognised for the outstanding national and international importance and awarded 'Centre of foreign journals' by the government of Japan. The library was renewaled on July 2011.

Rankings

University rankings
T. Reuters National[8] Research 8
WE [ja] National[9] Employment 2
NBP Greater Tokyo[10][11] Reputation 6
Shimano National[12] Selectivity SA
QS Asia
(Asia version)[13]		 General 11
ARWU Asia[14] Research 10-18
THE World[15] General 112
QS World[16] General 60
ARWU World[14] Research 101-150
ENSMP World[17] Alumni 92
Program rankings
Natural Sciences & Technology
Engineering
MATERIALS SCIENCE
T.Reuters National[18] Research 5
T.Reuters World[18] Research 24
PHYSICS
T.Reuters National[18] Research 5
T.Reuters World[18] Research 31
CHEMISTRY
T.Reuters National[18] Research 5
T.Reuters World[18] Research 22
MATHEMATICS
ARWU National[19] Research 3
ARWU World[19] Research 77-100
* T. Reuters World rankings include non-educational institutions

Tokyo Tech is one of the most prestigious universities in Japan. It can be seen in the several rankings such as shown below.

General Rankings

The university has been ranked 8th in 2008 and 13th in 2009-2010 in the ranking "Truly Strong Universities" by Toyo Keizai.[24] In another ranking, Japanese prep school Kawaijuku ranked Tokyo Tech as the 4th best university in Japan.[25]

According to ARWU, Tokyo Tech was ranked 6th overall in Japan and internationally ranked 37th in the field of Engineering and Technology, and 51-75th in Natural science in 2009.[26][27] The university was ranked 31st worldwide according to Global University ranking[28] and 60th in 2010 according to QS World University Rankings,[29] who placed it 23rd in Engineering & IT and 64th in Natural Sciences.

It was also ranked 31st worldwide according to the Global University Ranking in 2009.[30]

Research Performance

Tokyo Tech is one of the top research institutions in natural sciences and technology in Japan. According to Thomson Reuters, Tokyo Tech is the 8th best research university in Japan.[8] Its research excellence is especially distinctive in Materials Science (5th in Japan, 24th in the world),Physics (5th in Japan, 31st in the world), and Chemistry (5th in Japan, 22nd in the world).[31]

Weekly Diamond also reported that Tokyo Tech has the highest research standard in Japan in terms of research fundings per researchers in COE Program.[32] In the same article, it's also ranked 8th in terms of the quality of education by GP funds per student.

In addition, Nikkei Shimbun　on 2004/2/16 surveyed about the research standards in Engineering studies based on Thomson Reuters, Grants in Aid for Scientific Research and questionnaires to heads of 93 leading Japanese Research Centers, and Tokyo Tech was placed 7th (research planning ability 7th/informative ability of research outcome 5th/ability of business-academia collaboration 4th) in this ranking.[33]

The Tsubame, which is a large scale supercomputer in Tokyo Tech, was ranked one of the world best-performed computer. this supercomputer is used for simulation related to the complex systems such as the dynamics of planets or financial systems.

As Tokyo Tech has been emphasizing on 'practical' research, Tokyo Tech got the 2nd place at the number of patents accepted (284) during 2009 among Japanese Universities.[34]

Alumni Rankings

Alumni of Tokyo Tech enjoy their good success in Japanese industries. According to the Weekly Economist's 2010 rankings and the PRESIDENT's article on 2006/10/16, graduates from Tokyo Tech have the 2nd best employment rate in 400 major companies, and the average graduate salary is the 9th best in Japan.[35][36] École des Mines de Paris ranks Tokyo Tech as 92nd in the world in 2011 in terms of the number of alumni listed among CEOs in the 500 largest worldwide companies.[37]

Popularity and Selectivity

Tokyo Tech is one of the most selective universites in Japan. Its entrance difficulty is usually considered as one of the top in Japan.[38][39]

Nikkei BP has been publishing the ranking system "Brand rankings of Japanese universities" every year, composed by the various indications related to the power of brand, and Tokyo Tech has been ranked 6th (and 3rd among national universities) in Greater Tokyo Area in 2009-2010.[10]

See also

Alumni and Faculty

Main article: List of Tokyo Institute of Technology people

References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ [2] the number of undergraduates and departments of Tokyo Tech
  3. ^ [3] the numbers of graduate students Tokyo Tech
  4. ^ Japan reclaims no.1 spot on TOP500 list of world's fastest supercomputers International Business Times
  5. ^ [4] The history of the Tokyo Institute of Technology
  6. ^ [5]
  7. ^ [6] About us, Tokyo Institute of Technology Library
  8. ^ a b "Thomson Reuters 20 Top research institutions in Japan". Thomson Reuters. 2011. Retrieved July 22, 2022. (this ranking includes 5 non-educational institutions)
  9. ^ "Employment rate in 400 major companies rankings" (in Japanese). Weekly Economist. 2011. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  10. ^ a b "Nikkei BP Brand rankings of Japanese universities" (in Japanese). Nikkei Business Publications. 2010. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  11. ^ "Nikkei BP Brand rankings of Japanese universities" (in Japanese). Nikkei Business Publications. 2009. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  12. ^ "GBUDU University Rankings" (in Japanese). YELL books. 2009. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  13. ^ "QS World University Rankings: Asia 2025". QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. 2025. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
  14. ^ a b "Academic Ranking of World Universities". Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 2024. Retrieved August 15, 2024.
  15. ^ "THE World University Rankings". Times Higher Education. 2025. Retrieved October 9, 2024.
  16. ^ "QS World University Rankings". QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. 2025. Retrieved June 4, 2024.
  17. ^ "ENSMP World University Rankings" (PDF). École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris. 2011. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  18. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Thomson Reuters 10 Top research institutions by subject in Japan" (in Japanese). Thomson Reuters. 2010. Retrieved May 11, 2011.
  19. ^ a b "ARWU in Mathematics". Shanghai Jiaotong University. 2011. Retrieved May 11, 2011.
  20. ^ Asahi Shimbun University rankings 2010 "Publification rankings in Law (Page 4)" (PDF) (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. 2010. Retrieved May 11, 2011.
  21. ^ "Kawaijuku japanese universities rankings in Engineering field" (in Japanese). Kawaijuku. 2012. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
  22. ^ "QS topuniversities world rankings in Engineering field". Topuniversities. 2012. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
  23. ^ a b "ARWU in Computer Science". Shanghai Jiaotong University. 2010. Retrieved May 11, 2011.
  24. ^ Cite error: The named reference Rankings_TSU_N was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  25. ^ Cite error: The named reference Rankings_Kawai_N was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  26. ^ http://www.arwu.org/FieldENG2010.jsp
  27. ^ http://www.arwu.org/FieldSCI2010.jsp
  28. ^ http://www.globaluniversitiesranking.org/images/banners/top-100(eng).pdf
  29. ^ "QS World University Rankings 2010 Results".
  30. ^ http://www.globaluniversitiesranking.org/images/banners/top-100(eng).pdf
  31. ^ "Thomson Reuters 20 Top research institutions in Japan" (in Japanese). Thomson Reuters. (this raking includes non-educational institutions)
  32. ^ "週刊ダイヤモンド" ダイヤモンド社 2010/2/27 http://web.sapmed.ac.jp/kikaku/infomation/0227daiyamondokiji.pdf
  33. ^ http://homepage3.nifty.com/katu-kobayashi/doppo/kougaku_kennkyu.htm
  34. ^ Template:Ja2009年国内大学別特許公開件数, Japanese patent office, accessed May 3rd 2011
  35. ^ "Employment rate in 400 major companies rankings" (in Japanese). Weekly Economist. 2011. Retrieved Apr 29, 2011.
  36. ^ http://hensachi-ranking.seesaa.net/article/26733115.html#more
  37. ^ http://www.mines-paristech.fr/Actualites/PR/Ranking2011EN-Fortune2010.pdf
  38. ^ e.g. Yoyogi seminar published Hensachi (the indication showing the entrance difficulties by prep schools) rankings http://www.yozemi.ac.jp/rank/gakubu/index.html
  39. ^ Japanese journalist Kiyoshi Shimano ranks its entrance difficulty as SA (most selective/out of 10 scales) in Japan. "危ない大学・消える大学 2012年版" (in Japanese). YELL books. 2011.


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