University of Tsukuba

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University of Tsukuba

筑波大学
Motto	Imagine the future
Type	Public (National)
Established	October 1973 (founded in 1872)
President	Kyosuke Nagata [ja]
Academic staff	2,616[1]
Administrative staff	2,284[1]
Students	16,459[1]
Undergraduates	9,798[1]
Postgraduates	6,661[1]
Location	Tsukuba , Ibaraki , Japan
Campus	Urban
Mascot	None
Website	tsukuba.ac.jp

The University of Tsukuba (筑波大学, Tsukuba daigaku) is a national research university located in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

The university has 28 college clusters and schools with around 16,500 students (as of 2014).^[1] The main Tsukuba campus covers an area of 258 hectares (636 acres), making it the second largest single campus in Japan.^[2]

The university has a branch campus is in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, offering graduate programs for working adults in the capital and managing K-12 schools in Tokyo that are attached to the university.

Three Nobel Prize laurates have taught at the university, Leo Esaki, Hideki Shirakawa and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga.^[3] Apart from them, Satoshi Ōmura studied as an audit student.^[4]