Tokyo Institute of Technology
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| Tokyo Institute of Technology | |
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| 東京工業大学 | |
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| Motto: | None |
| Established: | 1881 |
| Type: | Public (National) |
| Faculty: | 1141 |
| Undergraduates: | 4940 |
| Postgraduates: | 5096 |
| Location: | Meguro, Tokyo (headquarters), Japan |
| Campus: | Urban |
| Mascot: | None |
| Website: | http://www.titech.ac.jp/ |
Tokyo Institute of Technology (東京工業大学 Tōkyō Kōgyō Daigaku?), often called Tokyo Tech, TiTech or Tokodai (東工大 Tōkōdai?) for short, is the largest institution of higher learning in Japan dedicated to science and technology.
It was founded in 1881 in Tokyo as the Tokyo Vocational School. In 1929, it was elevated to the status of national university, and has since April 2004 been incorporated (i.e. semi-privatized) under a new law[1] which applies to all national universities.
The institute has three campuses, the Ookayama campus in Ookayama, Meguro being the main campus. The other two campuses are the Tamachi campus, located in Shibaura, Minato and the Suzukakedai campus, located in Nagatsuta-cho, Midori, Yokohama.
The university is a member of LAOTSE, an international network of leading universities in Europe and Asia exchanging students and senior scholars.
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[edit] Schools and laboratories
[edit] Undergraduate schools
- School of Science
- School of Engineering
- School of Bioscience and Biotechnology
[edit] 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
[edit] Research laboratories
- Chemical Resources Laboratory
- Precision and Intelligence Laboratory
- Materials and Structures Laboratory
- Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors
[edit] Notable alumni
- Toshio Dokou
- Shoji Hamada
- Shigeo Hirose - pioneer of Robotics technology
- Toshio Ikeda
- Satoru Iwata - CEO of Nintendo
- Naoto Kan - Politician
- Kanjiro Kawai
- Akitoshi Kawazu
- Kenichi Ohmae - leading business and corporate strategists
- Kinsuke Serizawa
- Hideki Shirakawa - Nobel Laureate (Chemistry, 2000)
- Saburō Tanaka - founder of Kinema Junpo, the oldest film magazine in Japan
[edit] External links
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