University of Tsukuba

The University of Tsukuba (筑波大学, Tsukuba daigaku), located in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, is one of the top nine Designated National University and selected as a Top Type university of Top Global University Project by the Japanese government The university has 28 college clusters and schools with around 16,500 students (as of 2014). The main Tsukuba campus covers an area of 258 hectares, making it the second-largest single campus in Japan. The branch campus is 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.