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, one of the oldest national universities (established by Japanese Government) and one of the most comprehensive research universities in Japan, is located in the city of Tsukuba (known as Tsukuba Science City), Ibaraki Prefecture in the Kantō region of Japan. The University has 28 college clusters and schools with a total of around 16,500 students (as of 2014).〔 The main Tsukuba campus covers an area of 258 hectares (636 acres), making it the 2nd largest single campus in Japan.〔 〕 The branch campus is located in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, which offers graduate programs for working adults in the capital and manages K-12 schools in Tokyo that are attached to the university. == Features == The university boasts its academic strength especially in STEMM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine) and physical education, as well as related interdisciplinary fields by taking advantage of its location in Tsukuba Science City which has more than 300 research institutions. The university had 3 Nobel laureates (2 in Physics and 1 in Chemistry, see also "History") in the past, and about 70 athletes from the university, their students and alumni, have participated in the Olympic Games so far.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=University of Tsukuba's Official HP= )〕 Some of their recent initiatives include the establishment of new interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs in (Human Biology ) and (Empowerment Informatics ) as well as the establishment of (International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine ), that were created through the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's competitive funding projects. Its Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences is represented on the national Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction.〔(Organizations with ties to CCEP ) CCEP, accessed 2011-03-19〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「University of Tsukuba」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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