Tokyo Metropolitan University - TMU | Japan

Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU) was founded in 1949. As a public university, it established five undergraduate faculties: Social Sciences and Humanities, Law, Economics, Science, and Engineering; and the five postgraduate programs: Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Engineering, and Urban Science. At the postgraduate level, it opened a Business School in 2003, and has plans to establish a Law School. Since its founding, the university has been characterized by a continuous recruitment of distinguished scholars in each academic field into its faculty and an emphasis on basic studies. TMU has on the other hand also always undertaken advanced and pioneering research outside the borders of its existing academic fields in pursuit of a rich store of wisdom and arts to meet the demands of the times and society. The university has created an academic atmosphere where teachers and students can pursue free and vigorous discussion enabling them to develop beyond their positions as teacher and student. The university’s special small-class education for specialized courses enables to supply and deploy classes in a variety of forms and styles, for example, classes for investigation, laboratory work, intensive reading of technical literature, and others in which up-to-date issues can be challenged. In this system the teacher can see every student’s face, thereby encouraging and stimulating vigorous, close and detailed discussions through which both can grow intellectually.