Tokyo University of Science

Tokyo University of Science
Motto An educational foundation for the development of the nation through the advancement of science
Type Private
Established 1881; organized as a university in 1949
President Akira Fujishima
Undergraduates 17,180
Postgraduates 3,007
Location Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Campus Urban
Mascot Bocchan
Website www.tus.ac.jp
Kudan Campus of the Tokyo University of Science Kagurazaka Campus

Tokyo University of Science (東京理科大学 Tōkyō Rika Daigaku), formerly "Science University of Tokyo", informally Rikadai (理科大) or simply Ridai (理大) is a private research university located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.

History

Tokyo University of Science was founded in 1881 as The Tokyo Academy of Physics by 21 graduates of the Department of Physics in the Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo (then the Imperial University). In 1883, it was renamed the Tokyo University of Physics, and in 1949, it attained university status and became the Tokyo University of Science.[1]

Faculties and graduate schools

Faculties

Graduate schools

Research institutes

Affiliated schools

The university has two affiliated four-year universities: Tokyo University of Science, Yamaguchi, in Sanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi, and Tokyo University of Science, Suwa, in Chino, Nagano.[1]

Notable alumni

Literary references

The Tokyo Academy of Physics, the predecessor of TUS, appears in Botchan by the Japanese novelist Natsume Sōseki.

References

  1. 1 2 "東京理科大学" [Tokyo University of Science]. Dijitaru Daijisen (in Japanese). Tokyo: Shogakukan. 2012. OCLC 56431036. Archived from the original on August 25, 2007. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
  2. <訃報>太田竜さん78歳=評論家、社会運動家 (in Japanese). Mainichi Shimbun. 2009-05-19. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
  3. Uchū kara mita chikyū kankyō: Manga + eisei gazo. Tokyo: Ootsuki Shoten. 2004. ISBN 9784272330416.

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Coordinates: 35°41′57.8″N 139°44′29″E / 35.699389°N 139.74139°E / 35.699389; 139.74139

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