Top Global University Project

The Top Global University Project is a funding project promoted by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) which aims to enhance the international compatibility and competitiveness of higher education in Japan. It provides prioritized support for the world-class and innovative universities that lead the internationalization of Japanese universities.

UTokyo’s initiative, “Constructing a Global Campus Model at UTokyo,” was selected by MEXT as part of its Top Global University Project (Type A), which is for world-class universities that have the potential to be ranked in the top 100 in world university rankings.
 

• MEXT website
• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) website
• Top Global University Japan website
   

The Six Characteristics of the Global Campus Model

1. World-class, cutting-edge research takes place in a wide range of academic fields
2. A comprehensively reformed education system suitable for the modern Globalization Era
3. A wide range of degree programs and courses throughout the curriculum available in English
4. A high level of research and teaching carried out in Japanese, and courses in languages other than English taking place systematically
5. A diverse environment where academic and administrative staff and students of the University can teach, research and work together regardless of culture, language, gender, and age while mutually understanding each other
6. An organization put into place that supports the Global Campus, and where staff with high levels of knowledge and competency is placed throughout the University

 

Summary of Project

To construct this Model,
(1) a new and effective education system through comprehensive education reform and modification of the academic calendar has to be constructed and enhanced,
(2) the global outreach in education as well as research activities should be improved through the formation of strategic partnerships with select world–leading overseas universities (details HERE), and
(3) a core platform that facilitates the planning and implementation of a Global Campus should be established.

Strategic Partnerships are expansive, mutually-beneficial, and special relationships with a limited number of overseas universities that go beyond the usual academic exchange agreements by taking advantage of the strengths of UTokyo and each strategic partner university.

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Top Global Scholars have visited UTokyo to enhance the Excellence, Mobility and Diversity of the University as part of the Top Global University Project, etc.


  November 2017
  Prof. Martin Hairer (Fields Medalist / Imperial College London)
  Invited by Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences
  Lecture Details


　

  October and November 2017
  Prof. Andrei Okounkov (Fields Medalist / Columbia University)
  Lecture Details (Invited by Kavli IPMU)
  Lecture Details (Invited by Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences)




  October 2017
  Prof. Shing-Tung Yau (Fields Medalist / Harvard University)
  Invited by Kavli IPMU
  Lecture Details






  October 2017
  Prof. David Gross (Nobel Laureate / University of California, Santa Barbara)
  Invited by Kavli IPMU
  Lecture Details




  October 2017
  Prof. Brian Schmidt (Nobel Laureate / Australian National University)
  Invited by Division of International Affairs and School of Science
  Lecture Details
  Article about the lecture



 March 2017
 Prof. Caucher Birkar (Fields Medalist / University of Cambridge)
 Invited by Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences 
 Lecture Details




  February 2017
  Prof. George Smoot (Nobel Laureate / University of California, Berkeley)
  Invited by School of Science
  Lecture Details






  November 2016
  Prof. Ngô Bảo Châu (Fields Medalist / The University of Chicago)
  Invited by Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences
  Lecture Details


　



  August 2016
  Prof. Sheldon Lee Glashow (Nobel Laureate / Boston University, Harvard University)
  Invited by School of Science
  Lecture Details






  November 2015
  Prof. Shing-Tung Yau (Fields Medalist / Harvard University)
  Invited by Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences
  Lecture Details






  October 2015
  Prof. Alan H. Guth (Kavli Prize / Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  Invited by Kavli IPMU
  Lecture Details






  June 2015　
  Prof. Sir Vaughan F. R. Jones (Fields Medalist / Vanderbilt University, University of California, Berkeley)
  Invited by Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences




  April 2015
  Prof. Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel Laureate / Universiteit Utrecht)
　Invited by Kavli IPMU






  November 2014 
  Prof. Edward Witten (Fields Medalist / Institute for Advanced Study)
　Invited by Kavli IPMU

UTokyo has developed and offers a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) titled “Studying at Japanese Universities” via Coursera, as a free online course for those interested in studying in Japan.

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Applications for the contest are now closed.
Thank you all for your interest and submissions of photographs.

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