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With over 140 years of history, Tokyo University of Science has continued to confront science, technology, and society head-on while upholding the traditions that have remained unchanged since its founding. As a result, the university has firmly established itself as Japan’s leading private comprehensive university of science and technology through its advanced research and educational capabilities. The founding spirit of the university, expressed in the words “National prosperity built through the promotion of science,” reflects the passionate ideals of its founders. This spirit has been handed down continuously alongside the university’s traditional educational policy of “meritocracy,” and every day, our passionate faculty members highly qualified in research deliver education.
Today, humanity faces global challenges such as climate change, natural disasters, and international conflict. Society urgently needs people who will take on these issues without hesitation. In modern society, science and technology are the driving forces of transformation. At the same time, the pace of change is so rapid that mastering a single discipline at university is no longer enough to last an entire lifetime. In such an era, we strongly hope that our students will not only pursue depth in their own fields, but also gain the ability to expand their learning into other disciplines, to create fusions that transcend conventional academic boundaries, and to cultivate the capacity both to confront the various pressing issues and to generate original ideas.
To this end, Tokyo University of Science provides curricula and systems that allow students to design individual career paths and to move into new fields without hesitation. We are also building an environment that promotes collaboration and integration across the disciplines of science, engineering, pharmacy, and management, creating an educational and research hub with global impact. As part of these efforts, in the 2026 academic year we also plan to establish the new Faculty of Information Science and Technology and the Department of Science Communication within the Faculty of Science Division I, offering a new stage for interdisciplinary learning and innovation.
Furthermore, in order to foster creativity and a spirit of challenge among our students, our university is working to instill a culture of “praising legitimate failures.” Original research and attempts to enter new fields inevitably involve risk. Yet when a challenge is judged worthwhile based on careful preparation and information, even if it does not succeed, we regard it as a valuable and commendable “legitimate failure.” There may be many failures, and criticism may follow, but from them we can expect the seeds of the next major success. Tokyo University of Science supports bold challenges and fosters a culture that values and praises genuine failure.
Within this enriched educational and research environment, and under an educational philosophy that will never change, the university will continue to produce a wide range of graduates; individuals who support today’s science and technology, those who create new social value for the near future, and those who will respond with resilience to the changes and uncertainties of a yet unseen future.
Tokyo University of Science is a place where people of diverse traits, backgrounds, and perspectives are valued, and where new opportunities can be found and new ideas are born. We welcome students with the passion to pursue what no one has yet achieved, and the spirit to take on new research that can help solve social problems and lead to innovation. We look forward to learning together with those who share this vision.