The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the UN at its summit in September 2015 as international goals for 2030 aimed at eradicating poverty, protecting the global environment, and establishing a world in which all people can enjoy peace and prosperity. They are made up of 17 goals and 169 targets and guided by a pledge to “leave no one behind.” (*)These goals are mutually interrelated, and their achievement will require interdisciplinary collaboration among many different people across many different and disparate academic fields.

Over the 140 years since its establishment as the “The Tokyo Butsurigaku Koshujo (Tokyo Academy of Physics)” in 1881, the Tokyo University of Science (TUS) has grown to become Japan's premier private university of science and engineering, with four campuses encompassing seven undergraduate faculties comprised of thirty-three departments and seven graduate schools comprised of thirty departments. The university’s founding spirit of “Building a better future with Science,” along with a tradition of "Achieving Excellence" through meritocracy, whereby graduation is achieved only by those students who show themselves to be truly capable, has been maintained to this day as the university pursues an education and research ideal of “lnnovation in Science and Technology for Sustainable Development”. This ideal of TUS matches perfectly with the SDGs in its spirit of realizing a sustainable world.

The scope of academic disciplines at TUS spans science and engineering, pharmacy, life and medical science, and management.