Institute of Science Tokyo

The Institute of Science Tokyo, branded as Science Tokyo and known in Japanese as Tokyo Kagaku Daigaku, is a national research university in Tokyo, Japan.东京科学大学（Institute of Science Tokyo），简称 Science Tokyo，日文名东京科学大学，是位于日本东京的一所国立研究型大学。

It was established on 1 October 2024 by the merger of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, founded in 1881, and the Tokyo Medical and Dental University, founded in 1928, both of them former Designated National Universities.学校于 2024 年 10 月 1 日由 1881 年创办的东京工业大学与 1928 年创办的东京医科齿科大学合并而成，两校此前均为「指定国立大学法人」。

In 2023 the two predecessors together had 13,358 students, of whom 6,242 were undergraduates and 7,116 postgraduates, taught by 1,887 faculty with 5,627 staff in all, and the merged university placed 97th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.2023 年两所前身校共有学生 13358 人，其中本科生 6242 人、研究生 7116 人，教师 1887 人、职员合计 5627 人，合并后的大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 97。

History

• The Tokyo Institute of Technology was founded by the Japanese government on 26 May 1881 as the Tokyo Vocational School, fourteen years after the Meiji Restoration, to train modern craftsmen and engineers for the country's catch-up with the West.东京工业大学由日本政府于 1881 年 5 月 26 日创办，初名东京职工学校，时值明治维新后十四年，旨在为国家追赶西方培养近代工匠与工程师。

• The school was renamed the Tokyo Technical School in 1890 and the Tokyo Higher Technical School in 1901, and its early site at Kuramae lay among the workshops of the old Shogunate era.该校 1890 年更名东京工业学校，1901 年改称东京高等工业学校，早期校址位于藏前，四周是江户时代以来的手工作坊区。

• The Kuramae buildings were destroyed by the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, and the following year the school moved to Ookayama in southern Tokyo, where the main campus still stands.藏前校舍在 1923 年关东大地震中被毁，次年学校迁至东京南部的冈山，即今日主校区所在地。

• In 1929 the school was elevated to a degree-awarding university in the old system and was named the Tokyo Institute of Technology around 1946, gaining national university status.1929 年学校升格为可授予学位的旧制工业大学，约 1946 年定名为东京工业大学，取得国立大学地位。

• Research laboratories were added in the 1930s and 1940s, for building materials in 1934, resources utilisation and precision machinery in 1939, ceramic industry in 1943 and fuel science and electronics in 1944.二十世纪三四十年代学校陆续设立研究机构，1934 年设建筑材料研究所，1939 年设资源利用与精密机械研究所，1943 年设陶瓷工业研究所，1944 年设燃料科学与电子学研究所。

• After the war the National School Establishment Law of 1949 reorganised the institute, converting three-year courses into four-year degrees and creating the School of Engineering.二战后，1949 年的《国立学校设置法》对学校进行改组，把三年制课程改为四年制学位课程，并设立工学部。

• Graduate programmes in engineering began in 1953, and in 1954 the six research laboratories were consolidated into four, while the School of Engineering was broadened into a school of science and engineering.工科研究生教育始于 1953 年，1954 年六个研究所被整合为四个，工学部也扩展为理工学部。

• The institute trained generations of Japanese engineers and scientists through the postwar reconstruction, the high-growth years of the 1960s and the boom economy of the 1980s, supplying industry with much of its technical leadership.在战后重建、二十世纪六十年代高速增长与八十年代繁荣的岁月里，学校为日本培养了一代代工程师与科学家，为产业界输送了大量技术领军者。

• In April 2004 the institute became a National University Corporation under the law applied to all Japanese national universities.2004 年 4 月，学校依据适用于日本全部国立大学的法律，改制为国立大学法人。

• The institute marked its 130th anniversary in 2011 and joined the edX consortium in 2014, creating online courses through its Online Education Development Office.学校于 2011 年庆祝建校 130 周年，2014 年加入 edX 同盟，并通过在线教育开发办公室制作在线课程。

• The Tokyo Tech library, founded in 1882, lost nearly 28,000 books in the 1923 earthquake, moved to Ookayama in 1936 and grew into Japan's leading science and technology library.东京工业大学图书馆创办于 1882 年，1923 年地震中损失近 28000 册藏书，1936 年迁至冈山，后来发展为日本领先的理工科图书馆。

• Separately, the Tokyo National School of Dentistry was founded on 12 October 1928 as the first national dental school in Japan.另一方面，东京高等齿科医学校于 1928 年 10 月 12 日创办，是日本第一所国立牙科学校。

• A medical school was added in 1944 as the Tokyo Medical and Dental College, and the institution was renamed the Tokyo Medical and Dental University with university status in 1946.1944 年学校增设医学教育，改称东京医科齿科专门学校，1946 年定名东京医科齿科大学并取得大学地位。

• Separate faculties of medicine and dentistry were established in 1951, together with a materials research institute that grew into the Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering.1951 年医学部与齿学部各自成立，同时设立材料研究所，该所后来发展为生体材料工学研究所。

• From the 1970s the medical and dental university developed one of Japan's strongest dental research traditions, later ranked third in the world for dentistry.自二十世纪七十年代起，这所医科齿科大学逐步形成日本最强之一的齿学研究传统，后来在牙医学领域位列世界第三。

• The medical and dental university also became a National University Corporation in 2004 and was counted among Japan's nine Designated National Universities.东京医科齿科大学同样于 2004 年改制为国立大学法人，并跻身日本九所「指定国立大学法人」之列。

• Its hospital was unified on 1 October 2021 by merging the medical and dental hospitals into a single 813-bed institution with 327 dental chair units.2021 年 10 月 1 日，其医学与齿科两家附属医院合并为一所拥有 813 张病床与 327 台牙科治疗台的综合医院。

• The two universities signed an agreement to merge in October 2022, and in November and December of that year they publicly solicited names for the new university.两校于 2022 年 10 月签署合并协议，并于当年 11 月和 12 月在官网公开征集新校名。

• On 19 January 2023 the name Institute of Science Tokyo was chosen, and on 31 October 2023 the cabinet agreed to amend the National University Corporation Act to create it.2023 年 1 月 19 日，新校名定为东京科学大学，2023 年 10 月 31 日日本内阁决定修订国立大学法人法以促成建校。

• The amendment, merging the two corporations, took effect on 1 October 2024, with the headquarters at the former Tokyo Tech site in Meguro.合并两家法人的修正案于 2024 年 10 月 1 日生效，新校本部设于原东京工业大学所在的目黑区。

• The merger joined an engineering university with Japan's first national dental school and a leading medical school, creating one of the country's largest science and technology universities.这次合并把一所工科大学与日本第一所国立齿科学校及一所领先的医学院结合在一起，造就了日本规模最大的理工科大学之一。

• In February 2026 the Chinese Ministry of Commerce placed the Institute of Science Tokyo on a watch list of Japanese entities.2026 年 2 月，中国商务部把东京科学大学列入一份日本实体关注名单。

Academics

• The institute is organised into six schools, two graduate schools, two faculties and an institute for liberal arts.学校设有六个学群、两个研究科、两个学部，以及一个文理教育机构。

• Its schools are Science, Engineering, Materials and Chemical Technology, Computing, Life Science and Technology, and Environment and Society.其学群包括理学、工学、物质与化学技术、计算机科学、生命科学与技术、环境与社会。

• The Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Dentistry run six-year schools of medicine and dentistry and four-year schools of health care sciences.医学部与齿学部设有六年制医学与齿学课程，以及四年制的保健卫生类课程。

• The graduate schools cover medical and dental sciences and health care sciences, including a master's programme in global health and an integrated doctoral programme in nursing.研究科涵盖医齿科学与保健卫生科学，包括全球健康硕士项目与护理学一贯制博士项目。

• In 2023 the two predecessors enrolled 13,358 students and 1,887 faculty, with 5,627 staff in total.2023 年两所前身校共有学生 13358 人与教师 1887 人，职员合计 5627 人。

• Its research organisation includes the Materials and Structures Laboratory, the Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, the Laboratory for Zero-Carbon Energy and the Medical Research Laboratory.其研究机构包括材料与结构研究所、化学与生命科学研究所、零碳能源研究所与医学研究所。

• The Earth-Life Science Institute, known as ELSI, was carried over from Tokyo Tech and studies the origins of the Earth and of life.地球生命研究所（ELSI）沿用自东京工业大学，研究地球与生命的起源。

• The institute also runs an Institute of New Industry Incubation to commercialise research, alongside a centre for innovation management and a centre for medical innovation.学校还设有新产业创生机构推动研究成果商业化，并设有创新管理中心与医疗创新中心。

• The institute runs academies for super smart society and for energy and informatics, a professional academy and a centre for entrepreneurship education.学校设有超智慧社会学院、能源与信息学院、专业学院以及创业教育中心。

• It offers English-taught graduate programmes, and the predecessor Tokyo Tech had joined the edX consortium and created MOOCs through its Online Education Development Office.学校开设英语授课的研究生项目，其前身东京工业大学曾加入 edX 同盟，并通过在线教育开发办公室制作慕课。

• Tokyo Tech operated the Tsubame 2.0 supercomputer, once ranked the fifth fastest in the world and the fastest among university-owned machines, used for simulating complex systems.东京工业大学曾运营 Tsubame 2.0 超级计算机，一度位居全球运算速度第五，是当时最快的大学自有计算机，用于复杂系统模拟。

• The institute's scientists have worked on high-temperature superconductivity and iron-based superconductors, a field in which its professor Hideo Hosono made a landmark discovery.学校科研人员长期研究高温超导与铁基超导体，其教授细野秀雄在这一领域取得了里程碑式发现。

• The merged university runs an affiliated high school, a university hospital and centres for data science and artificial intelligence education, and it hosts an academy for the convergence of materials and informatics.合并后的大学设有附属高中、附属医院，以及数据科学与人工智能教育中心，并设有物质与信息融合学院。

• Its Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences trains physicians and dentists and offers joint degree programmes with partner institutions.其医齿学府培养医师与齿科医师，并与伙伴机构开设联合学位项目。

• The Institute for Liberal Arts provides general education across the schools and faculties.文理教育机构为各学群与学部提供通识教育。

• The university holds over 300 international students, most of them from Asian countries, and its faculties maintain many exchange agreements abroad.学校有 300 多名国际学生，多来自亚洲国家，各学部也与海外院校保持大量交换协议。

• Its predecessor TMDU had an agreement with Partners Harvard Medical International from 2002 and an exchange programme with Imperial College London from 2004.其前身东京医科齿科大学自 2002 年起与哈佛医学国际机构合作，自 2004 年起与帝国理工学院开展交换项目。

Campus

• The main Ookayama Campus lies in Meguro, on the boundary with Ota, with its main entrance facing Ookayama Station, and it is the site of the university headquarters.主校区冈山校区位于目黑区与大田区交界处，正门正对冈山站，也是大学校本部所在地。

• The institute has six campuses and several overseas bases, with satellite campuses at Suzukakedai in Yokohama, Tamachi, Yushima, Surugadai and Konodai.学校有六个校区与多个海外据点，分校区包括横滨的铃挂台、田町、汤岛、骏河台与国府台。

• The Yushima Campus in Bunkyo is the base of the medical and dental schools and holds the main university hospital and the 126-metre M and D tower, on 45,090 square metres of land.位于文京区的汤岛校区是医学与齿学教育的基地，设有大学主体医院与高 126 米的 M&D 大楼，占地 45090 平方米。

• The Surugadai Campus, near Ochanomizu Station, houses the Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering and part of the Medical Research Institute.骏河台校区临近御茶水站，设有生体材料工学研究所与医学研究所的一部分。

• The Konodai Campus in Ichikawa, Chiba, is where first-year medical and dental students study and holds a library, dormitories and sports grounds.位于千叶县市川市的国府台校区是医学与齿科新生开始大学学习的地方，设有图书馆、宿舍与运动场。

• The Yushima medical campus stands on land once used by the Tokyo Women's Higher Normal School, which moved out in 1930 to allow the dental school to expand.汤岛医学部校区所在的土地原为东京女子高等师范学校所用，该校 1930 年迁出，使齿科学校得以扩建。

• The Ookayama Library, rebuilt and reopened in 2011, is one of Japan's leading science and technology libraries with 674,000 books and 2,500 journals.2011 年重建并启用的冈山图书馆是日本领先的理工科图书馆之一，藏书 67.4 万册、期刊 2500 种。

• The Suzukakedai Campus in Nagatsuta, Yokohama, was built as a suburban research campus for the sciences and life sciences.位于横滨长津田的铃挂台校区是作为郊区科研校区建设的，以理学与生命科学为主。

• The institute maintains overseas collaboration centres in Ghana, Thailand, Chile, Germany, the United States, the Philippines, China and Egypt.学校在加纳、泰国、智利、德国、美国、菲律宾、中国与埃及设有海外合作据点。

• The university's symbol derives from the plum blossom of Yushima Tenjin, near its medical campus, and its colour is Science Blue.学校标识取自医学部附近汤岛天神的梅花，校色为「科学蓝」。

Reputation

• The Institute of Science Tokyo ranks 97th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, 185th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 338th in the 2026-2027 US News Best Global Universities.东京科学大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 97，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名并列第 185，2026 至 2027 年度美国新闻全球最佳大学排名第 338。^[1]

• It is ranked among the top five universities in Japan by QS, and its engineering and technology fields are counted among the top three in the country.学校在 QS 榜中位居日本前五，其工程与技术领域位列日本前三。

• The predecessor Tokyo Tech was ranked third in Japan and twentieth in the world for engineering and technology by QS, and second in Japan by Times Higher Education in 2021.前身东京工业大学在 QS 的工程与技术领域位列日本第 3、世界第 20，并于 2021 年被泰晤士高等教育列为日本第 2。

• Its predecessor TMDU was ranked third in the world for dentistry and 136th for medicine in the QS 2023 subject rankings.其前身东京医科齿科大学在 2023 年 QS 学科排名中，牙医学位列世界第 3，医学位列世界第 136。

• Thomson Reuters rated the predecessor's research especially strong in materials science, physics and chemistry, each placed around the world's twenties.汤森路透评价其前身校在材料科学、物理与化学领域的研究尤为突出，三项均位列世界二十余名。

• According to OpenAlex the merged institution has produced 12,814 works cited 61,243 times in its current form.据 OpenAlex 统计，合并后的机构以现名累计发表论著 12814 篇，被引用 61243 次。

• Two Nobel laureates are associated with the predecessors: the chemist Hideki Shirakawa, a Tokyo Tech alumnus who won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi, a professor who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.有两位诺贝尔奖得主与前身校相关：东京工业大学校友、化学家白川英树获 2000 年诺贝尔化学奖，教授、细胞生物学家大隅良典获 2016 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。

• Its materials scientists, including Hideo Hosono, are known for the discovery of iron-based superconductors, and its computer scientists are strong in artificial intelligence.其材料科学家，包括细野秀雄，以发现铁基超导体而闻名，其计算机科学团队在人工智能方面也实力突出。

• The institute is a Designated National University Corporation, one of only a small group of Japanese national universities given greater autonomy over governance and enhanced government funding.学校是「指定国立大学法人」，属于日本少数在治理上享有更多自主权、并获得政府重点经费支持的国立大学之列。

• Both predecessors were Top Type universities under Japan's Top Global University Project, and Tokyo Tech was a member of the RU11 research consortium.两所前身校都是日本「超级全球大学」计划的顶尖型指定校，东京工业大学还是学术研究恳谈会（RU11）成员。

Student life

• The university motto is Advancing science and human wellbeing.学校校训为「推进科学与人类福祉」。

• The predecessor Tokyo Tech had its own motto, Engineers of the Knowledge, Technology and Passion that Change our World.其前身东京工业大学的校训为「创造时代的知识、技术、志向与和谐之理工人才」。

• The two predecessors kept their own emblems, Tokyo Tech's royal blue and the medical school's bloom gold and mission blue, which the new university has merged into a single identity.两所前身校各有自己的标识，东京工业大学用皇家蓝，医科齿科大学用花金与使命蓝，新大学把二者整合为统一形象。

• The Centennial Hall at Ookayama Campus was designed by the architect Kazuo Shinohara, a professor at the institute.冈山校区的百年纪念馆由该校教授、建筑师筱原一男设计。

• Medical and dental undergraduates spend their first years at the Konodai Campus in Chiba before moving to the Yushima Campus in Tokyo.医学与齿科本科生先在千叶的国府台校区学习，之后转入东京的汤岛校区。

• The university's libraries, headed by the science and technology library at Ookayama, serve about 1,200 students and staff a day.学校图书馆以冈山的理工科图书馆为核心，每天接待约 1200 名师生。

• The Ookayama Campus is known for its large population of rose-ringed parakeets, a well-known feature of the site.冈山校区以栖息着大群红领绿鹦鹉闻名，是该校园广为人知的特色。

• Students benefit from the merger of an engineering university with a medical and dental university, giving the campus both a technology and a clinical culture, and the university provides international student support and dormitories.学生受益于工科大学与医齿科大学的合并，使校园兼具技术与临床两种文化，学校还提供国际学生支持与宿舍。

Notable people

• The founders and early leaders of the two predecessors include the Meiji-era officials who created the Tokyo Vocational School in 1881.两所前身校的创办与早期领导者，包括 1881 年创办东京职工学校的明治政府官员。

• Hideki Shirakawa, a Tokyo Tech alumnus, won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of conductive polymers.东京工业大学校友白川英树因发现导电高分子获 2000 年诺贝尔化学奖。

• Yoshinori Ohsumi, a cell biologist and professor at the institute, won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on autophagy.学校教授、细胞生物学家大隅良典因自噬研究获 2016 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。

• Hideo Hosono, a materials scientist at the institute, is known for discovering iron-based superconductors.学校材料科学家细野秀雄以发现铁基超导体著称。

• Satoru Iwata, a Tokyo Tech alumnus, was the chief executive of Nintendo and a leading figure in the video game industry.东京工业大学校友岩田聪曾任任天堂社长，是电子游戏业的重要人物。

• Naoto Kan, a Tokyo Tech alumnus, served as the 94th prime minister of Japan.东京工业大学校友菅直人曾任日本第 94 任首相。

• Tadamichi Yamamoto, a Tokyo Tech alumnus, served as the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Representative for Afghanistan.东京工业大学校友山本忠通曾任联合国秘书长阿富汗问题特别代表。

• Noriko Osumi, a graduate of the medical and dental university, is a neuroscientist and vice-president of Tohoku University.东京医科齿科大学校友大隅典子是神经科学家，曾任东北大学副校长。

• The institution has trained many of Japan's leading engineers, researchers and business leaders through its engineering school, whose graduates are heavily recruited by industry.学校通过其工学院为日本培养了大批顶尖工程师、研究者与商业领袖，其毕业生广受产业界青睐。

• Its combined medical and dental heritage gives the institute a strong record in biomaterials, regenerative medicine and dental science, including the Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering.其医学与齿学并重的传统，使学校在生物材料、再生医学与齿科科学方面成果突出，并设有生体材料工学研究所。

• Naoto Ohtake is the president of the merged university, which is headquartered on the former Tokyo Tech campus in Meguro.大竹尚登出任合并后大学的校长，校本部设于原东京工业大学的目黑区校园。