Tohoku University

Tohoku University is a public research university in Sendai, in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, commonly shortened to Tohokudai. It was established on 22 June 1907 as Tohoku Imperial University, the third of Japan's Imperial Universities after Tokyo and Kyoto, with a first college of agriculture in Sapporo. Teaching and research in Sendai began in 1911 with the School of Science, followed by medicine in 1915, engineering in 1919 and law and literature in 1922. It advocated an open-door policy and was the first university in Japan to accept female students, in 1913. The word imperial was dropped from its name in 1947 after postwar educational reform, and it has been a National University Corporation since April 2004. Its research institutes include the Institute for Materials Research and the Research Institute of Electrical Communication, and its research is especially distinctive in materials science, physics and chemistry. In 2016 it had ten faculties, sixteen graduate schools and six research institutes, with 17,885 students enrolled.