The University of Tokyo
Graduate School of
Public Policy
UTokyo HP
Overview of the University of Tokyo
The University of Tokyo was founded in 1877 as Japan’s first national university. Since its foundation, the university has served as an academic base for fusing Western with Eastern cultures, developing academic disciplines unique in the world and conveying knowledge gained from them to the international community. Over its long and distinguished history, the university has retained its place as the foremost institution of higher learning in Japan. Eminent graduates include 16 Japanese prime ministers and the university can boast 11 Nobel Prize laureates.
The Graduate School of Public Policy
The Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP) was founded in 2004 as a graduate school offering professional degree programs to train experts in policy formulation, implementation and evaluation. GraSPP aims to provide students with both the expertise and extensive knowledge that would put them on a career path as policy professionals within research institutions, government ministries and international organizations. GraSPP was co-established by the University of Tokyo’s Graduate Schools for Law and Politics and Graduate School of Economics. Its faculty includes professors internationally acclaimed in their own fields of research.
Dean Akio TAKAHARA
Dean’s message
Experience three Asian countries first-hand,
gain advanced expertise and forge
relationships that will found a new global
leadership network
Very few universities anywhere, I believe, have ever initiated a program where students can study in not two, but three countries, and achieve a double degree. The CAMPUS Asia Program, uniting universities in Japan, China and Korea in a groundbreaking venture, now offers just such an opportunity for a unique learning experience. The program allows participating students to immerse themselves in different cultures while they study and do research. Through side-by- side learning and discussion with local students, and through everyday contact with local people, they will discover realities of life and history that could never attained through desk study or armchair theory. With our three East Asian countries today exerting a strong global presence, first-hand experience is the essential prerequisite for participating students to found the human networks that alone can forge the future. At GraSPP, our ambition is to enable students with different nationalities and backgrounds to mix with each other for collaborative joint achievement. In concert with GSIS at Seoul National University and SIS at Peking University, we have launched this venture to realize our dream, and created the program. Since the program is a package that includes credit transfer from Seoul National University and Peking University, it gives participating students the opportunity to both accumulate and transfer credits systematically and effectively and, should they meet completion requirements, enable them to obtain a double degree. GraSPP has been striving for internationalization since its foundation, but I believe the program will add new momentum to this enterprise.