The University of Tokyo

Founded in 1877, the University of Tokyo is Japan's first national university. It contains ten faculties, fifteen graduate schools, eleven affiliated research institutes (including the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology), thirteen university-wide centers, three primary libraries, and three institutes for advanced study.

Students are educated in three main campuses in Hongo, Komaba, and Kashiwa, although the university has facilities all across Japan. The university offers an unusual course structure in that students spend their first two years on one site pursuing a liberal arts degree before moving to another campus to pursue their chosen major. In addition, the university has a unique museum, which is a special system of museums covering many fields, from paleontology to anthropology. The school has about 8.1 million books and magazines, many of which are rare editions.

As of 2021, the University of Tokyo's alumni, faculty members and researchers include seventeen Prime Ministers, 18 Nobel Prize laureates, four Pritzker Prize laureates, five astronauts, and a Fields Medalist.

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