Tohoku University Tohoku University Thailand Office Contact address: Chaloem Rajakumari 60 Building, Chulalongkon University, 254 Phayathai Road, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand http://ie.bureau.tohoku.ac.jp/overseas-office?lang=en For more information, please visit → http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/ Introduction Tohoku University was founded in Sendai as the third Imperial University in 1907. It became the first Japanese university to accept female students. Under its “Research First”, “Open-Door” and “Practice-Oriented Research and Education” principles, Tohoku University has become one of Japan’s leading universities. The number of students is 17,885 including 1,944 international students. There are 6,477 full-time academic and administrative staff including 195 international academic staff as of May 2016. Tohoku University has exchange agreements with about 700 institutions in 61 countries and regions and has 18 overseas offices in 11 countries as of May 2017. 10 Faculties/Schools 16 Graduate Schools 3 Professional Graduate Schools ・ ・Arts and Letters ・Arts and Letters Law School ・International Cultural Studies ・ ・Education ・Education School of Public Policy ・Information Sciences ・ ・Law ・Law Accounting School ・Life Sciences ・Economics ・Economics and Management ・Environmental Studies ・Science ・Science (as of May 1, 2017) ・Biomedical Engineering ・Medicine ・Medicine ・Educational Informatics ・Dentistry ・ Dentistry - Research Division ・ Pharmaceutical Sciences ・Pharmaceutical Sciences - Education Division ・Engineering ・ Engineering ● Sapporo ・Agriculture ・Agricultural Science ● Sendai 6 Research Institutes ● Tokyo ・ Institute for Materials Research (IMR) ● Osaka ・ Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer (IDAC) ・ Institute of Fluid Science (IFS) ・ Research Institute of Electrical Communication (RIEC) ・ Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM) ・ International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS).