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 University of Tokyo  (University)   | |
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| Formation | 1877 |
| Headquarters | Tokyo |
| Considered to be the most selective and prestigious university in Japan. The vast majority of senior civil servants are recruited from here. | |
The University of Tokyo is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university is the first Imperial University and currently selected as a Top Type university of Top Global University Project by the Japanese government.[1]
UTokyo has ten faculties, 15 graduate schools[2] and enrolls about 30,000 students, about 4,200 of whom are international students.
It is considered to be the most selective and prestigious university in Japan.[3] As of 2021, University of Tokyo's alumni, faculty members and researchers include seventeen Prime Ministers and 18 Nobel Prize laureates[4].
The University of Tokyo law faculty is the single most important source of elite bureaucrats.[5]
Alumni on Wikispooks
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160821171521/http://www.uni.international.mext.go.jp/university_list/Index/
- ↑ https://www.freeeducator.com/apply-for-honjo-international-foundation-scholarships-at-the-university-of-tokyo-japan
- ↑ https://www.timeshighereducation.com/rankings/japan-university/2017#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats
- ↑ https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/about/president.html
- ↑ https://www.soumu.go.jp/main_content/000271476.pdf
