History
Since its inception in Tsukuba Science City in 1973, the University of Tsukuba has offered acomprehensive curriculum of education, covering everything from literature and science tofine arts and physical education.
Although the university’s roots stretch back much further than 40 years; its origins lie in theNormal School, the first of its kind in Japan, established in 1872 on the former site ofShoheizaka Gakumonjo . The school was renamed several times over the years, eventually
becoming Tokyo Higher Normal School before incorporating four institutions—Tokyo Higher
Normal School, Tokyo University of Literature and Science, Tokyo College of Physical
Education, and Tokyo College of Agricultural Education—in 1949 to become the Tokyo
University of Education, the forerunner to today’s University of Tsukuba.
Brand slogan and sub-color
Since its inception, the University of Tsukuba’s philosophy has been
one of openness as we seek to forge a better future through education,
research, and all other aspects of academia. That philosophy issummed up in our brand slogan, “Imagine the future,” which isexpressed in the official sub-color, “Tsukuba blue.”
Faculty and staff ｎumbers

Total

Non-JapaneseDirectors

111

Teaching Professorsfaculty
Associate professors

639

17571

51

Lecturers

243

2

Assistant professors

428

62

10

Teachers at laboratory schools

537

1Administrative staff

738

1

1,256

2

Total

Non-Japanese

Undergraduate students

9,944

353

Graduate students

6,834

1,551

As of May 1,2017

Assistants
Staﬀ

Technical/medical staff
Student body

As of May 1,2017Students from overseas
The University of Tsukuba has attracted students from more than 100 countries and regionswith some 40 degree programs offered in English and hands-on Japanese language
instruction tailored to each student’s requirements.

11th most thesis citations among Japanese universities
One measure of a university’s research achievements is the number of times its researchers’
theses are cited. According to the Essential Science Indicators database published byClarivate Analytics, the University of Tsukuba had the eleventh highest number of commonly
cited theses among all Japanese universities in the eleven years from January 1, 2006 toDecember 31, 2016.
Solving the Mystery of Sleep - The Black Box in Our Everyday Life Director/Professor Masashi Yanagisawa International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine(IIIS) is a unique and best institute for sleep medicine, aiming to solve the mechanism ofsleep/wakefulness by conducting basic to clinical research.
IIIS is one of nine institutes selected as the World Premier International Research Center
Initiative (WPI), a huge national research project in Japan to establish research centers with ahigh-standard, outstanding research environment that attract leading researchers from allaround the world.
Projects with external funding (AY2016)
Category

Projects funded withMEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Research performed under contract
Joint research(incl. only projects conducted jointly with private-sector orgs.)

Projects funded by donations(for academic research) and research grants

No. of projects

Amount of external funding

1,496

4,407,088

357

4,940,870

401

1,019,570

839

1,350,734(Unit：thousand yen)

Initial budget for AY2017
As of April 1,2017