The University of Tokyo is a well-known national comprehensive university, headquartered in bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, and a top research university in the world. University of Tokyo 1877 was born. It was formed by the merger and reorganization of "Tokyo Kaicheng School" and "Tokyo Medical College" during the Meiji Restoration. At first, he managed four departments of science, science, literature and medicine and a pre-university school. It is the first national comprehensive university in Japan.

The University of Tokyo ranked 25th in the academic ranking of world universities in 20 19. 20 19-20 CWUR world university ranking13; In 2020, the world university ranked 36 th; In 2020, QS World University ranked 22nd and Japan ranked 1. In 20021year, QS World University ranked 24th in the world.

School running mode

Due to the different campuses of the University of Tokyo, the educational content and research content are also different. According to the content of education, it is mainly divided into Komatsu Campus in Muhei District, bunkyo-ku Hometown Campus and Chiba Park Campus which only conducts postgraduate education. The Institute of Medical Sciences of the University of Tokyo is located at Platinum Platform in the port area.

According to the research content, there are hometown campus for studying traditional academic fields, Komako campus for interdisciplinary research and cypress campus for new academic fields. This campus separation system is rare for other universities that often divide campuses according to departments; There are not many universities in Japan that offer education courses at the initial stage of enrollment.

The University of Tokyo is still a collegiate university, and its campus can actually be called Komako College, Hometown College and Cypress College. Each college has great autonomy and different teaching hours. On the other hand, students have great freedom in the choice of elective courses, and all the courses in universities can be above.