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University of Tsukuba

Creating a Transborder University for a Brighter Future
Overview of the Project
The university aims to create a global education and research environment by transcending national, institutional, and all other barriers.
To realize this, the "Campus-in-Campus" concept enhances greatly our university's founding philosophy of a "university open to all" to a "Transborder University which opens up Japanese higher education and society to the world".
〈 Our Objectives 〉
- To give students, faculty and staff members greater opportunity to explore their full potential by exponentially enhancing mobility and breaking all barriers that stand between nations and institutions.
- To enable faculty and students to engage in research and education that take advantage of all available global resources by transcending all barriers that stand between nations and institutions.
〈 Campus-in-Campus 〉
Sharing of resources with partner universities and institutions from all over the world, and thereby realizing unfettered mobility of students, faculty and staff members in a global education and research environment.
Campus-in-Campus Partner Universities
[as of February 2019]
Specific initiatives
being implemented
- Developing and managing the Course Jukebox system
- Establishing joint and double degree programs
- Expanding short-term exchange programs
- Sharing teaching and research units
- Establishing branch offices at partner universities mutually
and more
〈 Developing and managing the “Course Jukebox” system (launched in March 2016) 〉
The University of Tsukuba and its Campus-in-Campus partner universities put their shared courses into the system, and students at partner universities can take these courses as if the courses are from their own university.
〈 Other Initiatives 〉
Establishing new degree programs
and more
Introducing the
“Global Entrance Examination”
Promoting study abroad by providing university-owned scholarship programs such as the HABATAKE! Program
Providing various opportunities to improve foreign language proficiency
- Quality and practical language training at the Center for Education of Global Communication
- Providing TOEFL®practice courses and TOEFL®-ITP test on campus
Safety issues and crisis management
- Providing local support through the university overseas offices and mobility coordinators at partner universities
- Membership in the Overseas Students Safety Management Assistance (OSSMA) service
Building a global shared housing environment for local and international students to interact more in daily life (500-room Global Residence)
Extra-curricular programs for interaction with international students
Collaboration with external local institutions such as research institutes located in Tsukuba Science City, K-12 schools attached to the university, Super Global High Schools, Global Colleges of Technology, International Baccalaureate Schools, etc.
Creating world class research centers
- International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine
- Center for Cybernics Research
- Center for Computational Sciences
- Life Science Center of Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance
and more
Promoting international research collaborations such as the International Tenure Track Program, International Education and Research Laboratory Program, and so on
Raising international reputation
QS World University Rankings
[as of February 2019]
- Overall rank: 11th in Japan and 260th in the world
- Under-50 universities: 1st in Japan and 24th in the world
- In the Natural Sciences: 10th in Japan and 153th in the world
- In the Sports-related Subjects: 1st in Japan and 25th in the world
- Library & Information Management: 2nd in Japan and 37th in the world
Times Higher Education
Most Internationalized Universities Rankings
[as of February 2019]
- 3rd in Japan and 165th in the world
Internationalization of administrative staff members by Global Staff Development Office
University of Tsukuba in 2023
Projecting how the University of Tsukuba will be in 2023
Campus-in-Campus agreements with 13 overseas partner universities
1,000 courses in the Course Jukebox
Increasing the number of Japanese students studying abroad through exchange programs from 467* to 2,100 per year
Increasing the number of international students from 3,365* to 5,200
Increasing the number of English-taught degree programs from 39* to 68
Increasing the number of courses conducted in foreign languages (including English) from 2,577* to 3,540
Increasing the ratio of international and Japanese faculty members who obtained their degrees overseas from 24.9%* to 52.2%
Increasing the ratio of female faculty members from 16.4%* to 25.3%
*as of FY 2018