豊田工業大学 | |
Motto | 研究と創造に心を致し、常に時流に先んずべし |
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Motto in English | Respect the spirit of research and creativity, and always strive to stay ahead of the times. |
Type | Private |
Established | 1981 |
Academic staff | 35 (+ part time 48)[1] |
Students | 454[2] |
Undergraduates | 352[2] |
Postgraduates | 101[2] |
Location | , 35°06′23″N 136°58′59″E / 35.1065°N 136.9830°E |
Campus | Urban |
Website | Toyota Technological Institute |
The Toyota Technological Institute (豊田工業大学, Toyota Kōgyō Daigaku) (commonly referred to as TTI) is a university located in Nagoya, Japan. Founded in 1981 by a large endowment from Toyota Motor Corporation, it originally only accepted students with some industrial work experience.
TTI has a School of Engineering, a Master's Program, and a Doctoral Program. The programs consist of three areas of coursework: Mechanical Systems Engineering, Electronics & Information Science, and Materials Science & Engineering.[3]
In 2003 Toyota also opened the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, jointly with the University of Chicago. This campus is mainly for Ph.D students, studying Machine Learning, Algorithms & Complexity, Computer Vision, Speech Technologies and Computational Biology.[4]
TSU ranked TTI as the 5th best Japanese university in 2010 and 4th in 2011.[5][6] In this ranking, TTI has a best employment rate among all Japanese Universities.
In 2012, TTI was ranked 1st in Asia in terms of average number of publication per faculty by the QS World University Rankings.[7]