University of Tokyo
35°42′48″N 139°45′44″E / 35.71333°N 139.76222°E35.71333; 139.76222
The University of Tokyo, , abbreviated as Todai, or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. establish in 1877, the university is the first Imperial University & currently selected as a Top Type university of Top Global University Project by the Japanese government.
UTokyo has 10 faculties, 15 graduate schools as well as enrolls approximately 30,000 students, about 4,200 of whom are international students. In particular, the number of privately funded international students, who account for more than 80%, has increased 1.75 times in the 10 years since 2010, and the university is focusing on supporting international students. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. it is considered to be the almost selective and prestigious university in Japan. As of 2021, University of Tokyo's alumni, faculty members and researchers put seventeen Prime Ministers, 18 Nobel Prize laureates, four Pritzker Prize laureates, five astronauts, and a Fields Medalist.