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The University of Tokyo - The NO.24 of QS World University Rankings 2010. Every year QS World University Rankings will post a ranking of the world's top 500 universities by Quacquarelli Symonds using a methodology since 2004.
As the NO.24 of QS World University Rankings 2010, The University of Tokyo has many different place and advantage from other University. Here are some data for The University of Tokyo from Quacquarelli Symonds:
Country Size Research Focus Score
Japan L VH FC 86.74
About The University of Tokyo: The University of Tokyo (, Tky daigaku?), abbreviated as Todai (, Tdai?), is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hong, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is considered to be the most prestigious university in Japan. It ranks as the highest in Asia and 20th in the world in 2010 according to Academic Ranking of World Universities.
The university was chartered by the Meiji government in 1877 under its current name by amalgamating older government schools for medicine and Western learning. It was renamed "the Imperial University (, Teikoku daigaku?)" in 1886, and then Tokyo Imperial University (, Tky teikoku daigaku?) in 1887 when the Imperial University system was created. In 1947, after Japan's defeat in World War II, it re-assumed its original name. With the start of the new university system in 1949, Todai swallowed up the former First Higher School (today's Komaba campus) and the former Tokyo Higher School, which henceforth assumed the duty of teaching first and second-year undergraduates, while the faculties on Hongo main campus took care of third and fourth-year students.
Although the university was founded during the Meiji period, it has earlier roots in the Astronomy Agency (; 1684), Shoheizaka Study Office (; 1797), and the Western Books Translation Agency (; 1811). These institutions were government offices established by the Tokugawa shogunate (16031867), and played an important role in the importation and translation of books from Europe.
Kikuchi Dairoku, an important figure in Japanese education, served as president of Tokyo Imperial University.
For the 1964 Summer Olympics, the university hosted the running portion of the modern pentathlon event.
The The University of Tokyo is so good and nice. In 2011, I think that The University of Tokyo will be much batter, it is very good University.
