University of Tsukuba

The University of Tsukuba (筑波大学, Tsukuba daigaku) is a national research university in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Chartered in October 1973 as Japan's first "new concept university" (新構想大学, shinkōsō daigaku) with the Tokyo University of Education as its parent institution, it traces its origins to the first normal school in Japan, established in Tokyo in 1872, which gives it one of the oldest institutional lineages of any Japanese university. It is one of the pre-war government-established (kanritsu) universities and, together with Hiroshima University, one of the two successors of the former "universities of literature and science" (bunrika daigaku).

Type

Research university, National university

Founded

1973

Students

16,684

Also known as

Tsukuba University, Tsukuba daigaku