University of Tsukuba

The University of Tsukuba (Tsukuba daigaku) is a national research university in the city of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, and it was Japan's first "new concept university" when it was chartered in October 1973 with the Tokyo University of Education as its parent institution.筑波大学（Tsukuba daigaku）是日本茨城县筑波市的一所国立研究型大学，1973 年 10 月以东京教育大学为母体创办，是日本第一所「新构想大学」。

It traces its institutional lineage to Japan's first normal school, established in Tokyo in 1872, and together with Hiroshima University it is one of the two successors of the pre-war universities of literature and science.其学脉可追溯至 1872 年在东京创办的日本第一所师范学校，并与广岛大学一道，是战前「文理科大学」的两所继承者之一。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings it stands 351st, the 2027 Times Higher Education ranking places it in the 376-400 band, the 2026-2027 U.S. News global ranking places it 471st, the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities puts it in the 301-400 band, and it enrolls around 16,500 students.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中它位列第 351，2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名将其列入 376 至 400 区间，2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球排名位列第 471，2026 年世界大学学术排名将其列入 301 至 400 区间，全校在读学生约 16,500 名。

History

• The institutional lineage begins in 1872, when Japan's first normal school was established in Tokyo as a partial successor to the Shōheizaka Gakumonjo, the former shogunal academy of the Tokugawa period.该校学脉始于 1872 年，日本第一所师范学校在东京创办，部分承接了德川时代旧幕府学问所「昌平坂学问所」的传统。

• The National Museum of Nature and Science served as an attached institution of the Tokyo Higher Normal School from 1889 until it regained independence as the Tokyo Museum of Education in 1914.国立科学博物馆自 1889 年起是东京高等师范学校的附属机构，直到 1914 年才以东京教育博物馆之名重新独立。

• The direct predecessor, the Tokyo University of Education, was itself formed from four institutions, namely the Tokyo University of Literature and Science, the Tokyo Higher Normal School, the Tokyo College of Agricultural Education and the Tokyo College of Physical Education.直接前身东京教育大学由四所院校组成，即东京文理科大学、东京高等师范学校、东京农业教育专门学校与东京体育专门学校。

• On 27 August 1963 a cabinet decision approved the relocation of the institution to Tsukuba Science City, a move long debated because the old Tokyo campuses were cramped and widely scattered.1963 年 8 月 27 日，内阁决议批准该校迁往筑波研究学园都市，这项搬迁争论已久，原因在于旧东京校区既局促又分散。

• The Tsukuba Research and Academic City Construction Act of May 1970 provided the legal frame for the new city, and in October 1970 the University of Tsukuba construction office was opened there.1970 年 5 月颁布的《筑波研究学园都市建设法》为新城市奠定了法律框架，1970 年 10 月筑波大学建设事务所在此设立。

• Act No. 103 of 29 September 1973 amended the National School Establishment Act and carried a special chapter headed Organization of the University of Tsukuba, devoted to the new institution's distinctive structure without conventional faculties.1973 年 9 月 29 日第 103 号法令修订了《国立学校设置法》，并专设「筑波大学的组织」一章，以容纳这所新机构没有传统学院建制的独特结构。

• A national campaign for democratic education, comprising sixteen organizations including the Sōhyō and Chūritsu Rōren labour federations and the Japan Teachers Union, opposed the 1973 bill and demanded its withdrawal.一场由十六个组织组成的全国民主教育运动，包括总评、中立劳联两大工会联合会与日本教职员工会，反对 1973 年法案并要求将其撤回。

• On 1 October 1973 the University of Tsukuba opened with the First Cluster of Colleges in humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, a Medical Specialist Cluster, the College of Physical Education and the university library.1973 年 10 月 1 日，筑波大学开学，设第一学群（人文、社会、自然三类）、医学专门学群、体育专门学群与大学图书馆。

• In 1975 the Second Cluster of Colleges covering comparative culture, human sciences, biological sciences and agriculture and forestry was added, together with the College of Art and Design and a master's programme in area studies.1975 年增设第二学群，涵盖比较文化、人类、生物、农林四学类，并设立艺术专门学群与地域研究硕士课程。

• The University of Tsukuba Hospital opened in 1976, and in 1977 the Third Cluster of Colleges was established with socio-engineering, information sciences and basic engineering.筑波大学附属医院于 1976 年设立，1977 年设立第三学群，含社会工学、情报学与基础工学。

• The Tokyo University of Education closed at the end of March 1978, in the same year that the university launched its doctoral programme in socio-engineering and a junior college of medical technology.东京教育大学于 1978 年 3 月底关闭，同年该校开设社会工学博士课程与医疗技术短期大学部。

• Doctoral programmes in medicine followed in 1980 and in engineering in 1981, and the College of International Relations was created within the Third Cluster in 1983.医学博士课程于 1980 年、工学博士课程于 1981 年相继设立，1983 年第三学群内又增设国际关系学类。

• In 1985 the College of Japanese Language and Culture was established in the Second Cluster, and on 1 April 1989 the Graduate School of Systems Management, an evening MBA programme for working adults, opened at the Ōtsuka campus.1985 年第二学群内设立日本语日本文化学类，1989 年 4 月 1 日面向在职者的夜间 MBA——系统经营研究科在大冢校区开办。

• A corporate-law evening programme was added at Ōtsuka in 1990 and a doctoral programme in corporate sciences in 1996, and in 1998 these units were reorganized into the independent Graduate School of Business Sciences.1990 年在大冢增设企业法夜间课程，1996 年增设企业科学博士课程，1998 年这些教学单位重组为独立的经营学研究生院。

• On 1 October 2002 the university merged with the University of Library and Information Science, creating the Kasuga campus, a College of Library and Information Science and a graduate school of library, information and media studies.2002 年 10 月 1 日，该校与图书馆情报大学合并，由此设立春日校区、图书馆情报专门学群以及图书馆情报媒体研究生院。

• March and April 2004 saw the formal closure of the University of Library and Information Science and the inauguration, on 1 April, of the National University Corporation University of Tsukuba.2004 年 3 月至 4 月间图书馆情报大学正式关闭，国立大学法人筑波大学于 4 月 1 日成立。

• The professional law school and the MBA Programme in International Business opened in 2005, the year the Akihabara district of the Tokyo Campus began operating alongside the opening of the Tsukuba Express line.专业法学研究生院与国际经营 MBA 项目于 2005 年开办，同年东京校区秋叶原区伴随筑波快线的开通而启用。

• The statue of Kanō Jigorō was unveiled in front of the University Hall on 10 December 2010, and the Great East Japan Earthquake of 11 March 2011 caused damage estimated at some 7 billion yen to the campus.嘉纳治五郎铜像于 2010 年 12 月 10 日在大学会馆前揭幕，2011 年 3 月 11 日东日本大地震给校园造成约 70 亿日元的损失。

• On 1 April 2020 the university moved its entire graduate education to a degree-program system of three academic gateways and six research groups, and on 15 October 2020 it was designated a designated national university corporation.2020 年 4 月 1 日，该校将全部研究生教育改为由三大学术院、六大研究群构成的学位项目制，2020 年 10 月 15 日被认定为「指定国立大学法人」。

• The School of Comprehensive Studies, which enrolls only first-year students who then choose a destination school, admitted its first cohort in April 2021 after being established the previous year.综合学域群只招收一年级学生、由其再选专业学群的制度于 2020 年设立，2021 年 4 月迎来首届学生。

• On 9 April 2024 the university signed a partnership with the University of Washington in artificial intelligence, and in September 2024 it opened a school within the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, the first degree-awarding undergraduate school run abroad by a Japanese university.2024 年 4 月 9 日，该校与华盛顿大学签署人工智能领域合作协议，2024 年 9 月在吉隆坡马来亚大学内开设学校，这是日本大学首次在海外设立的授予学位的本科学院。

Academics

• The university is organised into ten undergraduate schools subdivided into colleges, together with one overseas school and graduate programmes organised under three academic gateways.该校设有十个本科学群（学群下设学类），另有一个海外学群，研究生教育则由三大学术院统筹。

• A defining feature since its founding is the separation of the research organisation from the teaching organisation, and the university has never had a separate liberal-arts division, so students take university-wide general education courses alongside specialised courses from their first year.自建校以来的一个显著特点是研究组织与教学组织相分离，学校始终不设独立的教养部，学生自一年级起即同时修读全校共通教养课程与专业课程。

• The medical school was the first in Japan to abolish the traditional two-year premedical plus four-year specialised structure in favour of a six-year integrated medical curriculum, a model later followed by newly established medical universities.其医学部是日本首个废除两年预科加四年专业制的传统结构、改行六年一贯制医学课程的医学院，此模式后来为新建医科大学所效仿。

• The schools comprise Comprehensive Studies, Humanities and Culture, Social and International Studies, Human Sciences, Life and Environmental Sciences, Science and Engineering, Informatics, Medicine and Medical Sciences, Health and Physical Education, and Art and Design.这些学群包括综合学域群、人文文化学群、社会国际学群、人类学群、生命环境学群、理工学群、情报学群、医学医疗学群、体育专门学群与艺术专门学群。

• The College of Medicine runs a six-year programme that includes a New Medical Course research-physician track, while the College of Nursing and the College of Medical Sciences sit within the same school.医学类实行六年制课程，并设有培养研究型医师的「新医学课程」方向，护理学类与医疗科学类同属医学医疗学群。

• Under the Global 30 internationalisation project the university offers English-medium undergraduate programmes in social and international studies, interdisciplinary life and environmental sciences and international medical sciences.在「Global 30」国际化项目之下，该校在社会国际学、跨学科生命环境科学与国际医学等方向开设英语授课的本科项目。

• In April 2020 graduate education was reorganised into three academic gateways containing six research groups, namely the graduate schools of Business Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, of Science and Technology, and of Comprehensive Human Sciences.2020 年 4 月，研究生教育重组为由三大学术院、六大研究群构成的体系，即人文社会商业科学学术院、理工情报生命学术院与人类综合科学学术院。

• A faculty organisation of faculties was introduced in October 2011, and the earlier research organisation known as the gakkei, having lost its substantive role, was abolished in March 2012.2011 年 10 月引入「系」这一教员组织，而此前名为「学系」的研究组织因失去实质作用而于 2012 年 3 月废止。

• The School of Integrative and Global Majors, established in December 2011, runs the five-year integrated PhD Programme in Human Biology adopted under a MEXT leading graduate schools programme in 2011, with entrance examinations also held in Bonn, Beijing, Tashkent, Ho Chi Minh City, Dallas and Tunis.2011 年 12 月设立的综合全球专业学群开设五年一贯制人类生物学博士项目，该项目于 2011 年入选文部科学省「博士课程教育引领计划」，入学考试还在波恩、北京、塔什干、胡志明市、达拉斯与突尼斯举行。

• Four projects were adopted under the 21st Century Centre of Excellence Programme in 2002 and 2003, covering life sciences, materials science, health and sport sciences and affective science, and the successor Global COE Programme adopted the Cybernics project in 2007.该校在 2002 年与 2003 年共有四个项目入选 21 世纪 COE 计划，涵盖生命科学、材料科学、健康体育科学与感性科学，其后继的全球 COE 计划于 2007 年入选「赛博格（Cybernics）」项目。

• Nationwide joint-use facilities include the Center for Computational Sciences, the Plasma Research Center, the Shimoda Marine Research Center and the Gene Research Center.全国共同利用设施包括计算科学研究中心、等离子体研究中心、下田临海实验中心与基因实验中心。

• Campus-wide centres include the Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance, the Foreign Language Center, the Sport and Physical Education Center and the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, a World Premier International research centre.校内共通教育与研究设施包括尖端跨学科领域研究中心（TARA）、外国语中心、体育中心，以及作为世界顶级国际研究据点的国际整合睡眠医学研究所。

• The Central Library holds about 1.76 million volumes, while three specialised libraries hold around 200,000 volumes each, and their collections are almost entirely open-stack, with total visits exceeding one million a year.中央图书馆藏书约 176 万册，三座专业分馆各约 20 万册，馆藏几乎全部开架，年总到馆人次超过一百万。

• The university operates eleven attached laboratory schools in the Greater Tokyo area, supervised by the Education Bureau of the Laboratory Schools, since the attached schools did not relocate to Tsukuba with the university.该校在东京圈运营十一所附属学校（附属学校园），由附属学校教育局管辖，原因在于东京教育大学关闭时只有大学本身迁往筑波。

• As of the end of the 2006 fiscal year the university had produced 61 spin-off venture companies, the third highest among Japanese universities, with eight new ventures launched in that year alone, the most in Japan.截至 2006 财年末，该校已孵化 61 家校办创业公司，在日本大学中排名第三，仅该财年就新设 8 家，为全日本最多。

• Data science became a required subject for all undergraduates entering from 2019, and since November 2008 the Tsukuba Action Project has supported students' independent activities with MEXT funding under a good-practice grant.自 2019 年入学起数据科学成为全体本科生的必修科目，而自 2008 年 11 月起「筑波行动项目（T-ACT）」依托文部科学省优秀实践资助支持学生的自主活动。

• As of July 2025 the university had 384 agreements with universities and research institutions in 68 countries and regions, together with thirteen overseas offices in twelve countries.截至 2025 年 7 月，该校与 68 个国家和地区的大学及研究机构共签订 384 份协议，并在 12 个国家设有 13 个海外办事处。

Campus

• The main Tsukuba Campus covers 2,577,286 square metres, or 258 hectares, making it the second-largest single university campus in Japan after the Ito Campus of Kyushu University.主校区筑波校区占地 2,577,286 平方米，即 258 公顷，是日本面积第二大的单一大学校园，仅次于九州大学伊都校区。

• Because of its vast area the university runs a campus bus service on which holders of an annual pass may ride without limit, a system unusual among Japanese universities.由于校园辽阔，该校运营校园巴士，持年票者可无限次乘坐，这在日本大学中并不常见。

• The Tokyo Campus occupies the Bunkyo School Building on part of the former Tokyo University of Education site, a building opened on 30 September 2011 that was jointly constructed with the Open University of Japan.东京校区设于前东京教育大学旧址一部分上的文京校舍，该楼于 2011 年 9 月 30 日启用，与日本放送大学共同兴建。

• The Bunkyo School Building stands two minutes on foot from Myōgadani Station on the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line and houses evening graduate programmes, the law school, the Ōtsuka Library and the Education Bureau of the Laboratory Schools.文京校舍距东京地铁丸之内线茗荷谷站步行两分钟，内设夜间研究生课程、法科研究生院、大冢图书馆与附属学校教育局。

• The university operates five student housing complexes on the Tsukuba Campus, namely Ichinoya, Hirasuna, Oikoshi, the Global Village and Kasuga, with a total capacity of about 4,000 places.该校在筑波校区运营五个学生宿舍群，即一之矢、平砂、追越、环球村与春日，总容量约 4,000 个床位。

• The residences were originally planned to accommodate about 60 per cent of the student body, later revised downward to the 40 per cent range as private housing developed nearby, and in 2017 the Global Village, a share-house style residence built under a private finance initiative, opened.宿舍最初计划容纳约六成学生，随着周边民间住宅的发展而后下调至四成左右，2017 年以 PFI 方式建成合租式宿舍「环球村」并启用。

• Some twenty dining facilities operate in the lecture buildings, residence commons and headquarters building, and a Starbucks opened inside the Central Library in March 2008, while the former Third Area shopping arcade became a food court in December 2007.讲堂楼、宿舍公共区与本部楼内共有约二十处餐饮设施，2008 年 3 月中央图书馆内开出星巴克，原第三区商店街则在 2007 年 12 月改为美食广场。

• The campus has no officially recognised university co-operative, so all shops and dining outlets are run by private businesses contracted through the University of Tsukuba Kōseikai welfare association, which also runs bookstores, bank counters, a post office and a staff childcare facility.校内没有官方的消费合作社，所有商铺与餐饮均由经筑波大学厚生会委托的民间企业运营，厚生会还经营书店、银行柜台、邮局与教职员托儿设施。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the University of Tsukuba is placed 351st.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，筑波大学位列第 351。

• The 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings place it in the 376-400 band, an improvement on the 401-450 band it occupied in 2019-2020, when it was also 55th in Asia and 8th in Japan.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列入 376 至 400 区间，较 2019 至 2020 年度的 401 至 450 区间有所上升，当时它还是亚洲第 55、日本第 8。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking the university is placed 471st.在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列第 471。

• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities place it in the 301-400 band.2026 年世界大学学术排名将其列入 301 至 400 区间。

• In a 2021 survey of corporate hiring managers by Nihon Keizai Shimbun and Nikkei HR, covering personnel officers at 4,850 listed and major unlisted companies, the university ranked 16th among 788 universities nationally.在日本经济新闻社与日经人力资源 2021 年面向 4,850 家上市公司及主要非上市企业人事负责人所做的招聘调查中，该校在日本 788 所大学中排名第 16。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 150,035 research works attracting 9,649,845 citations, a body of output that underpins its standing among Japan's leading research universities.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出 150,035 项研究成果，累计被引用 9,649,845 次，这一产出规模支撑着它作为日本领先研究型大学的地位。

• The university was selected as a Top Type institution under the MEXT Super Global University project, receiving about 4.8 billion yen in support intended for universities aiming at the world's top 100.该校在文部科学省「超级全球化大学」计划中入选「顶尖型」，获得约 48 亿日元资助，该资助面向以世界前一百为目标的大学。

• Its law school was ranked 19th in 2010 for its passing rate on the Japanese bar examination, and Eduniversal placed it seventh among business schools that are nationally strong and have continental links.其法科研究生院 2010 年司法考试通过率排名第 19，Eduniversal 则将其列为「本国强势且具大陆联系」的商学院第 7 位。

• Three Nobel laureates have taught at the university or its predecessor, and a fourth laureate studied at the Tokyo University of Education as an auditing student.有三位诺贝尔奖得主曾在该校或其前身任教，另有第四位得主以旁听生身份就读于东京教育大学。

• According to Thomson Reuters the university is the tenth best research institution among all universities and non-educational research institutions in Japan.据汤森路透评估，该校在日本所有大学与非教育类研究机构中科研实力排名第十。

Student life

• The university has no formal motto, using instead the slogan IMAGINE THE FUTURE, devised by the alumnus copywriter Hiroshi Ichikura and printed on materials and banners across the campus since the 2010 fiscal year.该校没有正式校训，自 2010 财年起改用由校友、广告文案家市仓洋提出的口号「IMAGINE THE FUTURE」，并将其印在各类校方物料与校园横幅上。

• Purple is the symbolic colour, fixed in 1999 as the base colour Tsukuba Purple, coded 6600CC, together with a secondary Tsukuba Blue coded 33FFFF, and since 2012 athletic association uniforms have been unified in a pale blue known as FUTURE BLUE.紫色是该校的象征色，1999 年确定为基准色「筑波紫」，色值 6600CC，辅以色值为 33FFFF 的「筑波蓝」，自 2012 年起体育会各队队服统一为一种称为 FUTURE BLUE 的淡蓝色。

• The university emblem is the five-three paulownia leaf, which originates in the Tokyo Higher Normal School student badge as revised in 1903, was carried into the Tokyo University of Education badge of 1949 and was retained by a University Council resolution of 1974.校徽为「五三桐叶」，其源流是 1903 年修订的东京高等师范学校学生徽章，沿用至 1949 年东京教育大学徽章，并于 1974 年经大学评议会决议确定为筑波大学校徽。

• The student handbook prints the lyrics of two student songs, Hitachino no, written in January 1975 shortly after the founding, and Tsukuba no Gama, while the older cheer song Kiri no Ha dates from 1919.学生手册收录两首学生歌曲的歌词，即创校后不久的 1975 年 1 月写成的《常陆野の》与《筑波のガマ》，而更早的应援歌《桐の葉》则作于 1919 年。

• The university festival, the Sōhōsai or Twin Peaks Festival, is held each November and is known for its exceptionally large number of food stalls, and it was cancelled twice, in 1980 and 1984, after clashes between students and the administration.大学祭「双峰祭」（Sōhōsai）每年 11 月举行，以摊位数量极多著称，并因学生与管理层冲突而在 1980 年与 1984 年两度停办。

• A separate dormitory festival, the Yadokari-sai or Hermit Crab Festival, is held on a Friday and Saturday in late May in the Hirasuna residence area, where first-year residents run stalls by class and traditional events include a yukata contest and a parade of portable shrines.另有独立的宿舍祭「寄居蟹祭」（Yadokari-sai），于 5 月下旬的周五与周六在平砂宿舍区举行，一年级住宿生以班级为单位摆摊，传统节目还包括浴衣比赛与神轿游行。

• Instead of a conventional student self-government association the university recognises the All-University Representative Council of Colleges at university level and the Class Representative Councils at school and college level, which negotiate with the administration on student life.该校不设传统的学生自治会，而在全校层面承认「全学学群专门学群总代会」，在学群与学类层面承认「クラ代」班级代表会，由其与校方就学生生活事务协商。

• Student circles are registered in three tiers, and recognised organisations must have a faculty advisor and join the Cultural Circles Federation, the Athletic Association or the Arts Circles Federation, in exchange for subsidies and priority facility booking.学生社团分三级登记，获认可的团体须有指导教师并加入文化系社团联合会、体育会或艺术系社团联合会，以换取资助与设施优先预约权。

• Notable circles have included the a cappella group Doo-wop, the Tsugaru shamisen club Mugenjuku and the campus broadcasting society THK, a strong performer in the NHK national university broadcasting contest.知名社团包括阿卡贝拉团体 Doo-wop、津轻三味线社团「无限塾」，以及在 NHK 全国大学广播大赛中表现强劲的校园广播社 THK。

• Two college journals are published, WORD of the College of Information Science, founded on 26 January 1979, and MILK of the College of Knowledge and Library Sciences, founded in September 2011.学院刊物有两份，即 1979 年 1 月 26 日创刊的情报学类《WORD》与 2011 年 9 月创刊的知识情报图书馆学类《MILK》。

• The track and field club has appeared 62 times in the Hakone Ekiden, the most of any national university, and the football club has won the All Japan University Football Championship four times as the University of Tsukuba, eight times counting the Tokyo University of Education era.该校田径队 62 次出战箱根驿传，为国立大学中最多，足球部以筑波大学名义四度夺得全日本大学足球锦标赛冠军，若计入东京教育大学时代则为八次。

Notable people

• Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in quantum electrodynamics, served as president and professor of the university's predecessor institutions.因量子电动力学研究分享 1965 年诺贝尔物理学奖的朝永振一郎，曾任该校前身院校的校长与教授。

• Leo Esaki shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on tunnelling in semiconductors and later served as president of the University of Tsukuba.因半导体隧穿研究分享 1973 年诺贝尔物理学奖的江崎玲於奈，其后出任筑波大学校长。

• Hideki Shirakawa shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of conductive polymers and is a professor emeritus of the university.因发现导电高分子而分享 2000 年诺贝尔化学奖的白川英树，是该校名誉教授。

• Satoshi Ōmura, who shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of avermectin, studied at the Tokyo University of Education as an auditing student.因发现阿维菌素而分享 2015 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖的大村智，曾在东京教育大学以旁听生身份就读。

• Yukihiro Matsumoto, a free software programmer educated at the university, is the chief designer of the Ruby programming language.在该校受教育的自由软件程序员松本行弘，是 Ruby 程序语言的首席设计者。

• Sawao Kato, a graduate and former professor, won eight Olympic gold medals in gymnastics, making him one of the most decorated Olympians in history.毕业生、前教授加藤泽男在体操项目上夺得八枚奥运金牌，是奥运史上获奖最多的运动员之一。

• Tian Han, the Chinese playwright and lyricist who wrote the words of the national anthem of the People's Republic of China, studied at the university's predecessor.为中华人民共和国国歌作词的中国剧作家田汉，曾就读于该校前身院校。

• Yoshiyuki Sankai, a professor of the university, founded Cyberdyne and developed the HAL robotic exoskeleton.该校教授山海嘉之创办了 Cyberdyne 公司，并研发出 HAL 机器人外骨骼。

• Akira Morikawa, a graduate, served as chief executive officer of LINE Corporation, and Kōta Matsuda became chief executive officer of Tully's Coffee Japan.毕业生森川亮曾任 LINE 株式会社首席执行官，松田公太则出任日本 Tully's Coffee 的首席执行官。

• John Maeda, a graduate, became president of the Rhode Island School of Design and a leading figure in computational design.毕业生约翰·前田出任罗德岛设计学院院长，是计算设计领域的领军人物。

• Kiyoko Ono, a graduate and former gymnast, served as the 70th chair of Japan's National Public Safety Commission.毕业生、前体操运动员小野清子曾任日本国家公安委员会第 70 任委员长。