Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, written 東京農工大学 in Japanese and shortened to 农工大 or to the Latin acronym TUAT, is a small national university in the western-Tokyo cities of Fuchu and Koganei that teaches agriculture and engineering through just two faculties, yet despite an enrolment of only some 5,800 students it carries a heavyweight reputation in the life sciences and applied biotechnology.东京农工大学（日语：東京農工大学，简称农工大、TUAT）是日本东京西部府中市与小金井市的一所小型国立大学，仅设农学与工学两个学部，尽管在校生不过 5,800 人左右，却在生命科学与应用生物技术领域享有分量颇重的声誉。

Its agricultural predecessor opened in 1874 and the institution was reorganised into a national university in 1949, and in 2004 it completed its transition into a National University Corporation under Japan's reformed national-university system, a legal change applied across the state universities that year.其农学前身开办于 1874 年，1949 年改组为新制国立大学，2004 年又完成法人化，成为日本新国立大学体制下的国立大学法人，这一法律变革当年适用于日本各国立大学。

Small though it is, with some 300 academic staff in 2021 and only eleven undergraduate majors, the university is counted among the largest earners of patent royalty income among Japanese universities, and it claims Akira Endo, the biochemist whose fungal research produced the statin drugs, as the most celebrated figure on its staff.尽管规模不大——2021 年教员约 300 人、本科专业仅 11 个——该校却位列日本大学专利许可收入最多之列，并以真菌研究催生他汀类药物的生物化学家远藤章为其教职中最负盛名的人物。

History

• The university's agricultural root runs to 1874, the year 7 of Meiji, when the Naito-Shinjuku branch of the Industrial Encouragement Department of the Ministry of Home Affairs opened an agricultural training field on that ground.该校的农学根源可上溯到 1874 年，即明治 7 年，当时内务省劝业寮内藤新宿派出所在此地开设了农事修学场。

• That same 1874, the Naito-Shinjuku branch also opened a sericulture experiment section, the starting point from which the university's engineering and textile lineage would later grow alongside the farming one.同样在 1874 年，内藤新宿派出所还设立了蚕业试验科，这正是该校工学与纤维一脉日后与农事一脉并行生长的起点。

• Those two 1874 beginnings, agriculture and sericulture, lay under the same ministry office yet gradually diverged, and in time they came to form the university's paired faculties of agriculture and engineering.这 1874 年的两个起点，农事与蚕业，同出一所官署却逐渐分流，最终构成这所大学农、工并立的两个学部。

• In 1890 the agricultural line passed under Tokyo Imperial University and became a department of its Faculty of Agriculture, tying its fate for a generation to the flagship imperial institution.1890 年，农学一脉转入东京帝国大学，成为其农学部下属的一个学科，从而将其此后一代人的命运与这所帝国旗舰学府绑定在一起。

• For some forty-five years, from 1890 to 1935, the agricultural teaching that would become TUAT stayed within Tokyo Imperial University, the very institution now called the University of Tokyo.从 1890 到 1935 近 45 年间，后来成为东京农工大学的农学教学一直留在东京帝国大学，也就是今东京大学之内。

• In 1935 that agricultural faculty broke away from the imperial university and moved to Fuchu in western Tokyo, taking its first fully independent campus site.1935 年，该农学学科脱离帝国大学，迁往东京西部的府中，获得了第一处完全独立的校址。

• Fuchu has served as the university's head office and agriculture campus ever since the 1935 move, so the administration and the Faculty of Agriculture remain centred there to this day.自 1935 年迁址以来，府中一直充当该校的本部与农学所在地，行政机构与农学部至今仍集中于此。

• In 1944, during the Pacific War, the agricultural school was reorganised into the Tokyo College of Agriculture and Forestry, a wartime senior technical college.1944 年太平洋战争期间，农学一侧改组为东京农林专门学校，属战时的高等专门学校。

• On the engineering side the sericulture and textile lineage took formal institutional shape in the same 1944 as the Tokyo Textile College, the other college that would later merge into the university.在工学一侧，蚕业与纤维一脉也在 1944 年定名为东京纤维专门学校，即日后并入该校的另一所专门学校。

• In May 1949 these two wartime predecessors, the Tokyo College of Agriculture and Forestry and the Tokyo Textile College, were brought together in a single post-war institution.1949 年 5 月，东京农林专门学校与东京纤维专门学校这两所战时前身被合并为同一所战后机构。

• The 1949 merger was carried out under the postwar National School Establishment Law, which converted the old colleges into the new-system Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.1949 年的合并按战后《国立学校设置法》进行，把两所旧专门学校改制成新制的东京农工大学。

• At its inauguration in 1949 the university opened with three divisions in the Faculty of Agriculture and three divisions in the Faculty of Engineering, a lean six-part structure.1949 年创学之初，该校农学部设 3 个学科、工学部亦设 3 个学科，是一个精简的六部分架构。

• Its paired name, Agriculture and Technology, records the 1949 merger of an agriculture college and a textile-technology college into a single bilingual identity.其「农工」并立的校名，正是 1949 年农林专门学校与纤维技术专门学校并设一体的双语印记。

• On the fibre side the university is traditionally grouped, with Kyoto Institute of Technology and Shinshu University, among the three historic textile centres of Japan.在纤维领域，该校传统上与京都工艺纤维大学、信州大学并称日本三大纤维名校。

• That textile inheritance is still kept in the Nature and Science Museum on campus, whose collection reflects the history of silk cultivation and textile science, disciplines central to pre-war Japanese exports.这一纤维传承至今仍保存在校内自然与科学博物馆，其藏品反映蚕桑与纤维科学的历史，而这些学科曾是战前日本出口的核心。

• After the new university opened in 1949, master's and doctoral programmes were gradually added alongside the original undergraduate divisions on both the agriculture and engineering sides.1949 年新制大学开学之后，农、工两侧在原有本科基础上逐步增设了硕士与博士课程。

• The engineering faculties settled on the Koganei campus, which complements Fuchu and gives the university its distinctive two-city layout astride western Tokyo.工学各学部安设于小金井校区，与府中相辅相成，使该校形成横跨东京西部的独特两城格局。

• In 2004 the university completed its incorporation as a National University Corporation, the shift in legal form applied across Japan's state universities that year.2004 年该校完成法人化，改组为国立大学法人，与当年日本各国立大学适用的法律形态变革同步。

• A Japanese institutional record gives 1874 as the founding year, whereas the QS university profile dates the institution to 1877, a small discrepancy in how the two predecessor origins are counted.日本校方记录以 1874 年为创办之年，而 QS 大学档案则把该校系于 1877 年，这是两种前身起点口径下的小差异。

• By a 2021 account the university remained a small single-field national institution with some three hundred academic staff, only eleven undergraduate majors and several hundred new entrants a year.到 2021 年的一份记载，该校仍是一所小型单科国立机构，教员约 300 人，本科专业仅 11 个，每年新生数百人。

• The veterinary teaching that today runs through the Cooperative Department of Veterinary Medicine at Fuchu has its roots among the agricultural programmes absorbed into the university at the 1949 merger.如今在府中由联合兽医医学科承担的兽医教学，其根源可追溯到 1949 年合并时并入该校的农学诸课程。

Academics

• The university is organised around two faculties only, the Faculty of Agriculture at Fuchu and the Faculty of Engineering at Koganei, which together define its deliberately single-field character.全校仅围绕两个学部组织，即府中的农学部与小金井的工学部，二者共同界定其刻意维持的单科性质。

• The undergraduate Faculty of Agriculture begins with the Department of Biological Production, coded An, and the Department of Applied Biological Science, coded Bn, the two biological core divisions.本科农学部以生物产业学科（代号 An）和应用生物科学科（代号 Bn）这两个生物核心学科为开端。

• Agriculture continues with the Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, coded En, and the Department of Ecoregion Science, coded Rn, both oriented to land and environment.农学部还设有环境·自然资源学科（代号 En）与生态圈域学科（代号 Rn），二者皆面向土地与环境。

• Standing apart among these is the Cooperative Department of Veterinary Medicine, coded Vn, a joint programme that trains veterinarians across the whole agriculture faculty.其中独具一格的是联合兽医医学科（代号 Vn），这是一个横跨整个农学部培养兽医人才的联合项目。

• On the engineering side the undergraduate faculty opens with the Department of Biotechnology and Life Science and the Department of Biomedical Engineering, the biological wing of engineering.工学部本科方面，先设生物系统与生命工学科和生物医学工学科，构成工学中的生物学翼。

• Engineering teaching also includes the Department of Applied Chemistry and the Department of Applied Physics and Chemical Engineering, bridging pure science and industrial process.工学教学还设有应用化学科与应用物理·化学工学科，在纯科学与工业过程之间架桥。

• Completing the undergraduate engineering departments are the Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.本科工学诸科最后由机械系统工学科与电气信息·计算机科学科补足。

• Altogether the university keeps some eleven undergraduate majors, a deliberately narrow undergraduate offering that makes it one of Japan's smaller and more specialised national institutions.全校本科专业合计约 11 个，这一刻意精窄的本科布局使它成为日本规模较小、专业性更强的国立机构之一。

• The Graduate School of Agriculture offers master's programmes in the science of biological production, in natural resources and eco-materials and in environmental conservation.农学研究生开设生物产业科学、自然资源·生态材料与环境保护等硕士课程。

• Its agriculture graduate courses also cover international innovative agricultural science, sustainable and symbiotic society, environmental science on the biosphere and environmental and agricultural engineering.农学研究科课程还涵盖国际创新农学、可持续·共生社会、生物圈环境科学以及环境与农业工程。

• The Cooperative Division of Veterinary Science runs a four-year doctoral course, the D4 track reserved for advanced veterinary research.联合兽医科学专攻设四年制博士课程，即面向高级兽医研究的 D4 学程。

• The Graduate School of Engineering includes departments of biotechnology and life science, of applied chemistry and of mechanical systems engineering, each offering combined master's and doctoral courses.工学研究科设有生物系统与生命工程、应用化学与机械系统工程等学科，各自开设硕博连读课程。

• Engineering graduate teaching extends to applied physics, applied physics and chemical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering and computer and information sciences, a broad technological spread.工学研究生教学还延伸到应用物理、应用物理·化学工程、电气电子工程以及计算机·信息学，技术面铺得很广。

• Among its later additions are electronic and information engineering, a joint doctoral programme for sustainability research and a professional course in industrial technology and innovation.其后新增的方向包括电子·信息工程、面向可持续研究的联合博士课程，以及技术经营这一专业学位。

• The separate Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering houses bio-functions and systems science, food and energy systems science and a cooperative advanced health-science major.另设生物系统应用研究科，下设生物功能·系统科学、食物·能源系统科学以及高级健康科学联合专攻。

• The United Graduate School of Agricultural Science runs doctoral departments in biological production science, applied life science, symbiotic science, agricultural and environmental engineering and agricultural economy.联合农学研究科开设生物产业科学、应用生命科学、共生学、农业与环境工程以及农业经济等博士课程。

• Alongside it the Leading Graduate School for Green and Clean Food Production and the TUAT WISE Program both admit combined master's and doctoral students into five-year tracks.与此并行的绿色·清洁食品生产引领型研究科与 TUAT WISE 项目，均以五年制硕博连读方式招收学生。

• Research is carried by three institutes, the Institute of Agriculture, the Institute of Engineering and the Institute of Global Innovation Research, which links the two faculties in joint projects.科研由三个研究所承担，即农学研究所、工学研究所以及把两个学部联结于联合项目的全球创新研究所。

• Campus teaching facilities include the Nature and Science Museum and the Animal Medical Center, the latter used for the clinical training of veterinary students.校内教学设施还包括自然·科学博物馆以及动物医疗中心，后者用于兽医学生的临床训练。

• A 2021 figure of some 300 academic staff underpins a compact student body and gives the university a notably close teacher-to-student relationship across both campuses.2021 年约 300 名教员的规模，支撑起精小的学生群体，也让两校区都保持相当紧密的师生比。

Campus

• The university holds campuses in two western-Tokyo cities, Fuchu and Koganei, with the agriculture and head-office campus in Fuchu and the engineering campus in Koganei.该校在东京西部两座城市设校区，即农学部与本部所在的府中和工学部所在的小金井。

• The Fuchu site includes the university's head office at 3-8-1 Harumi-cho and the Faculty of Agriculture and other units at 3-5-8 Saiwai-cho, two addresses in one city.府中校址含位于晴海町 3-8-1 的大学本部，以及位于幸町 3-5-8 的农学部等单位，同城两处地址。

• The Koganei campus, at 2-24-16 Naka-cho, houses the Faculty of Engineering and its associated graduate schools and research facilities.小金井校区位于中町 2-24-16，容纳工学部及其相关研究科与科研设施。

• Both sites sit around latitude 35.69 north and longitude 139.69 east on the Musashino plain, a tableland west of the older Tokyo wards.两处校址都位于东京老城以西武藏野台地上、大约北纬 35.69 度、东经 139.69 度一带。

• The Nature and Science Museum on campus keeps samples reflecting the history of silk cultivation and textile science, a direct link to the university's sericulture origin of 1874.校内自然·科学博物馆保存着反映蚕桑与纤维科学史的标本，是该校 1874 年蚕业起源的直接见证。

• The Animal Medical Center serves the veterinary teaching of the agriculture faculty and gives students hands-on clinical facilities on campus rather than off site.动物医疗中心服务于农学部的兽医教学，为学生提供校内而非校外的动手临床设施。

• Fuchu dormitories include the Fuchu International House, the mixed Hinoki-ryo and the women's Kaede-ryo, while Koganei has the Koganei International House, the men's Keyaki-ryo and the women's Sakura-ryo.府中宿舍有府中国际公寓、男女合住的桧寮和女生枫寮，小金井则有小金井国际公寓、男生榉寮和女生樱寮。

• The International Houses at both campuses receive international students, visiting researchers and overseas professors, men and women alike, as a dedicated foreign-resident facility.两校区的国际公寓作为专门的外籍居所，接纳国际学生、访问研究员和外籍教师，男女均可入住。

• International students may also apply for the International Student House run by Hitotsubashi University in nearby Kodaira City, extending housing beyond TUAT's own halls.国际学生还可申请附近小平市内一桥大学设立的国际学生公寓，使住宿延伸到农工大自有寮舍之外。

• The whole footprint stays deliberately modest, reflecting a small single-field university of agriculture and engineering rather than a sprawling multi-faculty metropolitan campus.整个校园占地保持刻意的精小，体现的是一所农工单科小大学，而非那种蔓延铺开的多学部巨型都市校园。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings for 2027 Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology is placed in the 951-1000 band, the same shared bracket that covers the whole tier.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，东京农工大学被列入 951-1000 区间，与整档其他大学并列同一共享区段。

• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2027 the university sits in the 1001-1200 band, a position consistent with a strong but specialised national institution.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 1001-1200 区间，这一位置与其专科型国立机构的定位相符。

• It did not enter the 2026-2027 edition of the US News Best Global Universities ranking, which carries no entry under this university's name for that year.该校未收录于 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名，该版当年名单中没有以其校名登记者。

• It likewise did not enter the 2026 ShanghaiRanking's Academic Ranking of World Universities, whose main thousand-school global list of that edition carries no such entry.该校同样未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名，该版千校世界主榜中没有相应条目。

• On the subject axis a QS ranking by subject for Agriculture and Forestry placed the university around 41st in the world in its 2026 listing, the clearest measure of its agricultural strength.在学科维度上，2026 年 QS 农林学科排名把该校列于世界约第 41 位，是其农学实力最直观的体现。

• In earlier world tables the university stood around 701 in the QS ranking of 2023 and about 156 in the QS Asia ranking of the same year, while a QS profile also shows an overall band of 851-900.在早年的榜单上，该校约列 2023 年 QS 世界排名 701 位、同年 QS 亚洲排名 156 位，QS 档案还显示其世界总榜曾列约 851-900。

• Indexing by OpenAlex credits the university with 44,567 scholarly works carrying 1,994,728 citations, a citation load remarkably heavy for so small an institution.据学术文献数据库收录统计，该校名下学术成果共 44,567 项、被引 1,994,728 次，对如此规模的院校而言引用分量异常可观。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields laureate is on its roster, but the closest equivalent honours are held by alumnus Akira Endo, who won the Japan Prize in 2006, the Lasker-DeBakey Award in 2008 and the Canada Gairdner Award in 2017.其名单上没有诺奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，但最接近的对等荣誉由校友远藤章持有，他先后获 2006 年日本国际奖、2008 年拉斯克-迪贝基奖和 2017 年加拿大盖尔德纳奖。

• The university is counted among the largest recipients of royalty income from patents among Japan's higher-education institutions, a marker of the applied-research impact of its agriculture and engineering work.该校被列为日本高校中专利许可收入最多者之一，这是其农工应用研究影响力的一个标志。

• It belongs to Japan's top graduate-school initiative and is a member both of JANET and of the inter-university engineering consortium, specialist groupings that signal its standing in narrow fields.该校属日本卓越研究生院计划成员，并加入 JANET 与大学间工学联盟等组织，这些专科性结群显示其在狭窄领域中的地位。

Student life

• Student numbers stay small by Japanese national-university standards, with about 5,815 enrolled students and some 416 staff in one QS institutional profile, the academic staff put near 300 in 2021.学生规模以日本国立大学标准而言较小，一份 QS 档案显示在校生约 5,815 人、职员约 416 人，而 2021 年报称教员约近 300 人。

• With only about eleven undergraduate majors and several hundred new entrants a year, cohort life is close and the campus community unusually compact for a national university.本科专业仅约 11 个、每年新生数百人，使年级氛围紧凑，对一所国立大学而言校园社群格外精干。

• Dormitory life spans six student halls across the two campuses, the International Houses taking overseas residents alongside the Hinoki, Kaede, Keyaki and Sakura residences.宿舍生活横跨两校区的六所寮舍，国际公寓与桧寮、枫寮、榉寮、樱寮共同容纳海内外学生。

• International students may also compete for places at the International Student House operated by Hitotsubashi University in Kodaira, extending community beyond the two campuses.国际学生还可争取小平市一桥大学国际学生公寓的名额，使社群延伸到两校区之外。

• Veterinary students pass clinical time through the on-campus Animal Medical Center, a routine and required part of their professional training at Fuchu.兽医专业学生在府中通过校内动物医疗中心完成临床时段，这是其职业教育中常规而必修的一环。

• The Nature and Science Museum gives students access to a collection on silk cultivation and textile science, tying daily study back to the university's sericulture origin.自然·科学博物馆让学生得便接触蚕桑与纤维科学藏品，把日常学习重新系于该校的蚕业起源。

• As a single-field university of agriculture and engineering, the student body shares a narrow set of disciplines and a common campus culture split only by the Fuchu and Koganei sites.作为农工单科大学，学生群体共享一套精窄学科与同一校园文化，仅因府中、小金井两地而分区。

• Because first-year enrolment is held to only several hundred students across eleven majors, students share lecture halls, laboratories and dormitories in tightly knit cohorts.由于每年新生不过数百人却分属 11 个专业，学生在阶梯教室、实验室与宿舍中结成紧密的小群体共同学习。

Notable people

• Akira Endo, a professor at the university from 1979 to 1997, researched the link between fungi and cholesterol biosynthesis and so led to the statin drugs, some of the best-selling medicines in history, earning him the Japan Prize in 2006.远藤章于 1979 至 1997 年任教于该校，研究真菌与胆固醇合成的关系，直接促成史册上畅销的他汀类药物，并因此获 2006 年日本国际奖。

• Susumu Ohno, who took his doctorate in veterinary science in 1949, became the evolutionary geneticist and author of the landmark book Evolution by Gene Duplication.大野乾于 1949 年获兽医学位，后来成为演化遗传学家、里程碑著作《基因重复进化》（Evolution by Gene Duplication）的作者。

• Kazuhiro Chiba, an alumnus of the Graduate School of Agriculture, served as president and in mid-2024 was interviewed on how the university plans to attract more international students.Kazuhiro Chiba 出身农学研究科，曾出任校长，并于 2024 年年中就该校如何招收更多国际学生接受访问。

• Hirohide Hamashima, who finished the master's course in 1977, went on to direct the motorsport tyre development programme at Bridgestone, the tyre-maker.Hirohide Hamashima 1977 年修完硕士课程，后来主持轮胎制造商普利司通（Bridgestone）的赛车轮胎开发。

• Taro Kato, a Bachelor of Engineering of 1972, became president and chief executive of NGK Insulators, a leading ceramics and electrical-insulator manufacturer.Taro Kato 1972 年获工学学士，后任日本特殊陶业（NGK Insulators）社长兼首席执行官，该厂商为陶瓷与电气绝缘子的龙头。

• Shigeru Uehara, a Bachelor of Engineering of 1971, served as the development chief behind the Honda NSX sports car, one of Japan's landmark engineering projects.Shigeru Uehara 1971 年获工学学士，曾担任本田 NSX 跑车的开发负责人，那是日本一项标志性工程项目。

• Masaru Gomi, a Bachelor of Engineering, rose to become president and chief executive of TOYO Corporation, an engineering consulting firm.Masaru Gomi 获工学学士，后升任东洋公司（TOYO Corporation，一家工程咨询企业）社长兼首席执行官。

• Morshed Khan, a Bachelor of Engineering, went into politics and served as Foreign Minister of Bangladesh from 2001 to 2006, the most prominent statesperson among the university's alumni.莫尔希德·汗获工学学士后从政，曾于 2001 至 2006 年出任孟加拉国外交部长，是该校校友中最显赫的政治人物。

• Ginandjar Kartasasmita, a Bachelor of Engineering of 1965 who received an honorary doctorate from the university in 2005, held several senior Indonesian posts including coordinating minister for economic affairs.吉南贾尔·卡尔塔萨斯米塔（Ginandjar Kartasasmita）1965 年获工学学士，2005 年获该校名誉博士，曾在印尼出任多项要职，包括经济统筹部长。