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University of Tsukuba
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The University of Tsukuba (筑波大学, Tsukuba daigaku) is a national research university located in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
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筑波大学 | |
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Motto | Imagine the future |
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Type | Public (National) |
Established | October 1973 (founded in 1872) |
President | Kyosuke Nagata [ja] |
Academic staff | 2,616[1] |
Administrative staff | 2,284[1] |
Students | 16,459[1] |
Undergraduates | 9,798[1] |
Postgraduates | 6,661[1] |
Location | , , Japan |
Campus | Urban |
Mascot | None |
Website | tsukuba.ac.jp |
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The university has 28 college clusters and schools with around 16,500 students (as of 2014).[1] The main Tsukuba campus covers an area of 258 hectares (636 acres), making it the second largest single campus in Japan.[2]
The university has a branch campus is in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, offering graduate programs for working adults in the capital and managing K-12 schools in Tokyo that are attached to the university.
Three Nobel Prize laurates have taught at the university, Leo Esaki, Hideki Shirakawa and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga.[3] Apart from them, Satoshi Ōmura studied as an audit student.[4]