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Editorial Research Ranking

Which University Sits at the Top in Greater Tokyo?
― 28 Schools Scored on Six Yardsticks, Without Deviation Scores

UNIByline: The Reader of University Systems (spans systems, costs, and location through primary sources ― rankings are disclosed via six-axis scores)

This article does not use deviation scores. Entrance difficulty, applicant numbers, and name recognition are not scoring axes either. What a deviation score measures is "how many people wanted a place at this university against the number of places" — not what the four years inside are made of, and not how wide the doors open afterwards. So we scored the 28 universities of the Greater Tokyo area (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba) on six yardsticks: design of the learning / density of student life / breadth of the exit / location and ease of commuting / cost and support / depth of history. Hitotsubashi University takes the overall No. 1 spot (8.27), Ochanomizu University is 2nd, and the University of Tokyo is 3rd. Switch the yardstick to "breadth of the exit" and Nihon University, 21st overall, takes 1st. Change the yardstick and the king changes (try the lens below). This is not a declaration of "the good universities" but an ordering under the six axes we disclose. We do not measure whether you are eligible to apply — the upper ranks include women's universities.

How This Ranking Is Built (Methodology)

So as not to settle "which university in the Greater Tokyo area is the best" with a single word, we broke it into six independent, weighted axes and combined them (total = Σ(axis score × weight)/100). Deviation scores, entrance difficulty, applicant numbers, name recognition, brand, and the scores of other university rankings are not among the axes. Those measure "how hard it is to get in" and "how well the name is known," which is a different thing from "what you can receive once you are in." The argument of this piece sits exactly there. Design of the learning and breadth of the exit carry the heaviest weight (18 each) because it is our editorial judgment that a university is an educational institution, and that its results appear while you are enrolled and after you leave. The 0 to 10 on each axis is our assessment, not a fact, arrived at on top of confirmed facts such as the amount of tuition, the layout of the campuses, the presence or absence of an arrangement, and the founding year. Where the numbers come from is in the sources; the limits are disclosed at the end.

AxisWhat It MeasuresWeight
Design of the LearningAre seminars, laboratories and small-group teaching built as an arrangement that reaches every student? We look at whether it is compulsory, not whether it is on offer18%
Density of Student LifeHow much campus, facility, hall of residence and small-group setting reaches one student. Density, not size17%
Breadth of the ExitThe range of fields graduates reach, and the alumni network that works out there. The more concentrated in a single field, the lower18%
Location and Ease of CommutingWhere the main campuses are, how far from a station, and whether the faculties are scattered13%
Cost and SupportThe level of tuition, and the depth of tuition reductions and of the university's own grant scholarships17%
Depth of HistoryThe length of time from the year each university claims as its founding, and whether that history survives in its arrangements today17%
Normalization Rule
Deviation scores, entrance difficulty, applicant numbers, name recognition and the scores of other university rankings are not among the axes (that exclusion is itself the normalisation, so that "how hard it is to get in" is not read as "how good the substance is"). So that size does not turn straight into points, density of student life is measured per student rather than in total, and breadth of the exit is measured by the range of fields rather than by how many people come out. Research indicators such as paper counts and grant income are left out, because they mix the meaning of the axes with the purpose of this piece, which is to measure four undergraduate years.
Scope / Unit
The 28 universities headquartered in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba (11 national, 2 public, 15 private). Unit = university. One university = one entry. Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma are out of scope because definitions of "the Greater Tokyo area" differ over them (which excludes the University of Tsukuba and others). Graduate-only universities, junior colleges, professional universities and distance-only universities are also out of scope. This article is written for readers who live in the Greater Tokyo area and would commute from there, which is the standpoint from which location and cost are measured. ⚠ There are more than 200 universities in the area, so these 28 are an editorial selection, not the full set. That is disclosed at the end as the largest limit of this piece.
Data Sources
Tuition and admission fees were confirmed one university at a time on each official site (fee pages and entrance-procedure guidebooks). The standard amount and the ceiling for national universities come from the text of the ministerial ordinance on tuition and other fees at national universities; the average for private universities from the survey of student payments by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; and the breadth of graduates' paths from Tokyo Shoko Research's 2025 survey of the universities that company presidents across Japan graduated from. Whether seminars are compulsory, how the campuses are laid out, the size of halls of residence, and the dates of relocations rest on the descriptions on each university's official pages. The founding year is the year each university itself claims, which differs from the year it was established as a university.
Compiled / Subjectivity
2026-08-02. Weighting design of the learning and breadth of the exit heavily reflects our editorial judgment that a university is an educational institution and that its results appear while you are enrolled and after you leave. There are no exact ties, and Hitotsubashi University at No. 1 (8.27) sits 0.11 ahead of Ochanomizu University at No. 2 (8.16). A small change in the weights swaps them.
Switch the scoring lens ― changing the weights moves the ranking (recalculated on the same evidence, same scores)

Overall Ranking

★ First Edition

Findings Against Conventional Wisdom

① The overall No. 1 is not the University of Tokyo. 1st is Hitotsubashi University (8.27) and 2nd is Ochanomizu University (8.16), with the University of Tokyo 3rd (8.05). 1st and 2nd are 0.11 apart, and a small change in the weights swaps them. Hitotsubashi stands at No. 1 because it took 10 on both of the two axes over which no lens is laid — design of the learning and depth of history — and this university takes 1st under none of the four lenses. It stands on the absence of weak spots rather than on any single peak.
② Under the breadth-of-the-exit lens, 1st goes to Nihon University, 21st overall. In Tokyo Shoko Research's 2025 survey, Nihon University heads the tally of universities that company presidents graduated from with 19,587, 1st for the fifteenth year running, nearly double Keio University in 2nd (10,819). Yet inside the same survey, narrowing the population to "presidents under 40" moves 1st to Keio University. The structure this article is built on, that changing the yardstick changes the king, is already there inside the primary source.
③ Under the density-of-student-life lens, 1st goes to International Christian University (8.40), 25th overall. The Mitaka campus covers about 620,000 square metres, the halls of residence number 10 buildings with about 900 places, and about 30% of all students live in them. There are 18 students for every full-time member of the teaching staff. The same university is 28th under the cost-and-support lens, the bottom. Holding 1st and the bottom at once is where this university stands.
④ Seven of the eleven national universities in the Greater Tokyo area had raised undergraduate tuition to the statutory ceiling. Tuition at national universities is set by ministerial ordinance at a standard amount of 535,800 yen, and article ten of the same ordinance fixes the ceiling at "120% of the standard amount" = 642,960 yen. The University of Tokyo (for entrants from the 2025 academic year), Hitotsubashi University (from 2020), Chiba University, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (from 2024), Tokyo University of the Arts, The University of Electro-Communications (from 2026) and Saitama University (from 2026) are all at that ceiling. The three still at the standard amount are Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Yokohama National University and Ochanomizu University — and Ochanomizu University published, in July 2026, a proposal to raise it from the 2027 academic year, with the decision due at the end of October 2026.
⑤ The flagship scholarships at Waseda and Keio cannot be used by candidates from the Greater Tokyo area. Waseda's Mezase! Miyako no Seihoku Scholarship (450,000 to 700,000 yen a year) is open to graduates of high schools outside Tokyo and the three neighbouring prefectures; Keio's Gakumon no Susume Scholarship (600,000 yen a year, 900,000 yen for medicine) is open to graduates of high schools outside the Greater Tokyo area. Both are grants with nothing to repay, and the decision comes before entry. The closer you are to the Greater Tokyo area while aiming at a university inside it, the further outside this support you stand — that may be the most practical finding in this piece.

How the Landscape Changes When You Change the Weights (Sub-Views)

LensNo. 1Biggest MoversWhat It Measures
Balance of all six axes (default)Hitotsubashi University 8.270.11 ahead of Ochanomizu University (2nd, 8.16); the University of Tokyo (3rd, 8.05), Chiba University (4th, 7.91) and Yokohama National University (5th, 7.90) followHow a university is designed, across six axes
Density of student life weightedInternational Christian University 8.40Hitotsubashi University (2nd, 8.08) and Ochanomizu University (3rd, 8.08) follow; Musashi University climbs 24th→5th; Nihon University falls to 27th and Tokyo University of Science to 28thHow much of a place reaches one student
Breadth of the exit weightedNihon University 8.64Waseda University (2nd, 8.36) and Keio University (3rd, 8.20) follow; Hosei University climbs 16th→8th; Musashi University falls to 28thRange of fields graduates reach, and the alumni network
Cost and support weightedTokyo Metropolitan University 8.88Yokohama National University (2nd, 8.44) and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (3rd, 8.36) follow; The University of Electro-Communications climbs 26th→12th; International Christian University falls to 28thLevel of tuition, and the depth of reductions and grants
Location and ease of commuting weightedSophia University 8.88Gakushuin University (2nd, 8.36) and Ochanomizu University (3rd, 8.08) follow; Shibaura Institute of Technology climbs 27th→11th; Tsuda University falls to 28thClose to a station, and whether the faculties are scattered

Debate and Limitations

Every axis score from 0 to 10 is our assessment, not a fact. What we could confirm goes as far as the amounts of tuition and admission fees, the year of entry each applies to, where the campuses are and which station is nearest, whether arrangements such as seminars or halls of residence exist, the founding year each university claims, and the number of company presidents from each. Everything past that — whether the design of the learning is good, whether the density of student life is high — is editorial judgment. The sources list holds references for facts only; there is no source for the scores, because none exists.

The largest limit of this piece is that 28 is not the full set. There are more than 200 universities in the Greater Tokyo area. We chose 28 so that national, public and private, comprehensive and single-field, central and suburban, large and small would all be mixed in, but this is an editorial selection, and a university that was not chosen is not thereby inferior to these 28. Universities that would have reached the upper ranks had they been included certainly exist.

The choice of axes carries a structural bias. Once density of student life is measured per student and location docks points for scattered faculties, these six axes work in favour of small, single-campus, national and public universities. A large comprehensive university is poorly served by a design in which the sheer volume of options is hard to turn into points. That is an intended editorial judgment, but it remains a bias.

We do not measure whether you are eligible to apply. Because this article measures "the four years inside and what comes after," the difficulty of the entrance examination, the number of places, and even whether you can apply at all are not scoring axes. The upper ranks include Ochanomizu University and Tsuda University, both women's universities, and some readers cannot sit their entrance examinations at all. Which is to say: the order cannot be used as it stands to choose where to apply.

On tuition: every amount here was confirmed against each university's official site (fee pages and entrance-procedure guidebooks) as it stood in August 2026. Tuition differs by year of entry, however. Inside the same university, students already enrolled on the amount before an increase sit alongside new entrants on the amount after it. In the text we generally treat the amount that applies to the most recent year of entry, and note the year from which it applies. Ochanomizu University's revision from the 2027 academic year is a proposal, not a decision, as of August 2026 (the decision has been announced as targeted for the end of October 2026). We set its cost score between the universities at the standard amount and those at the ceiling.

On the years behind "depth of history": we used the year each university itself claims as its founding, not the year it was established as a university. Gakushuin University's 1847 refers to the Gakushujo opened inside the Kyoto Imperial Palace, and it opened as a university under the post-war system in 1949. Hitotsubashi University's 1875 refers to the Shoho Koshujo commercial training school, and Ochanomizu University's 1875 to the Tokyo Women's Normal School. Where to start counting is each university's own decision, and comparison across them has limits.

On the indicator behind "breadth of the exit": the tally of universities that company presidents graduated from is compiled by Tokyo Shoko Research from the representative-director data in its corporate database of about 4.4 million companies; it includes sole proprietorships, and where one person heads several companies the one with the largest revenue is counted. This is the number of people who became presidents, not a proportion per graduate. It favours universities with many graduates. We did not use employment rates, because the denominator is defined differently at each university and comparison across them does not hold.

The strongest objection: "What actually tells in choosing a university is not what you can learn there but who got in. Companies and society read the selection at entry as a signal, so the moment you drop deviation scores this ranking stops measuring reality." That is a coherent objection. This article answers it by not fixing on a single yardstick. Switch to the breadth-of-the-exit lens and Nihon University takes 1st; under cost and support, Tokyo Metropolitan University does. Our position is not which of them is right, but making explicit which yardstick you are looking through.

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Sources

  1. Hitotsubashi University (national, founded 1875, Kunitachi, Tokyo / undergraduate tuition is 642,960 yen a year for students entering from the 2020 academic year and 535,800 yen for those who entered in 2019 or earlier; admission fee 282,000 yen) — Hitotsubashi University, "Admission fee and tuition for the 2026 academic year" https://www.hit-u.ac.jp/kyomu/fee/index.html / founding year and history from Wikipedia, "Hitotsubashi University" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%80%E6%A9%8B%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6
  2. Ochanomizu University (national, founded 1875, Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo / current undergraduate tuition 535,800 yen a year) — Wikipedia, "Ochanomizu University" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%8A%E8%8C%B6%E3%81%AE%E6%B0%B4%E5%A5%B3%E5%AD%90%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6 / the proposed tuition revision is source 33
  3. University of Tokyo (national, founded 1877, Hongo / Komaba / Kashiwa / undergraduate tuition is 642,960 yen a year for students entering from the 2025 academic year and 535,800 yen for those who entered in 2024 or earlier; the admission fee of 282,000 yen is unchanged) — University of Tokyo, "Admission fee and tuition" https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/admissions/tuition-fees/e03.html / founding year from Wikipedia, "University of Tokyo" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6
  4. Chiba University (national, founded 1872, Chiba City / undergraduate tuition is 321,480 yen per half year, 642,960 yen a year) — Chiba University, "Guidebook for entrance procedures for the 2026 academic year (undergraduate), 3rd edition" https://www.chiba-u.ac.jp/students/ / founding year and faculty line-up from Wikipedia, "Chiba University" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%83%E8%91%89%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6
  5. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (national, founded 1873, Fuchu, Tokyo / undergraduate tuition 535,800 yen a year = the standard amount for national universities; admission fee 282,000 yen) — Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, "Fees and payment procedures" https://www.tufs.ac.jp/student/tuition_scholarship/fee.html / founding year from Wikipedia, "Tokyo University of Foreign Studies" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E5%A4%96%E5%9B%BD%E8%AA%9E%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6
  6. Yokohama National University (national, founded 1876, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama / undergraduate tuition 535,800 yen a year = the standard amount, 267,900 yen for the evening course of the faculty of business administration; admission fee 282,000 yen) — Yokohama National University, "Admission fee and tuition" https://www.ynu.ac.jp/campus/expense/payments.html / founding year from Wikipedia, "Yokohama National University" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A8%AA%E6%B5%9C%E5%9B%BD%E7%AB%8B%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6
  7. Tokyo Metropolitan University (public, established in 2005 as Shuto Daigaku Tokyo and renamed in 2020 / the Minami-Osawa campus is about five minutes on foot from Minami-Osawa Station on the Keio Sagamihara Line) — Tokyo Metropolitan University, "Access" https://www.tmu.ac.jp/campus_guide/access.html / history from Wikipedia, "Tokyo Metropolitan University (2020-)" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E7%AB%8B%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6_%282020-%29 / tuition and the exemption scheme are source 32
  8. Waseda University (private, founded 1882, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo and elsewhere) — Wikipedia, "Waseda University" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A9%E7%A8%B2%E7%94%B0%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6 / the scholarship is source 38, the number of company presidents is source 31
  9. Gakushuin University (private, claiming 1847 as its origin / the Mejiro campus is 30 seconds on foot from JR Mejiro Station; the merger of Gakushuin Women's College in April 2026 added the Toyama campus and the faculty of intercultural communication) — Gakushuin University, "Campus guide" https://www.univ.gakushuin.ac.jp/about/facilities/ / "Access" https://www.univ.gakushuin.ac.jp/access/ / history from Wikipedia, "Gakushuin University" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AD%A6%E7%BF%92%E9%99%A2%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6
  10. Keio University (private, founded 1858, Mita / Hiyoshi / Yagami / Shinanomachi / Shonan Fujisawa and elsewhere) — Wikipedia, "Keio University" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%85%B6%E6%87%89%E7%BE%A9%E5%A1%BE%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6 / the scholarship is source 39, the number of company presidents is source 31
  11. Sophia University (private, founded 1913, Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) — Wikipedia, "Sophia University" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8A%E6%99%BA%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6 / the gathering of faculties on the Yotsuya campus and the walking time from the nearest station are source 34
  12. Institute of Science Tokyo (national, formed on 1 October 2024 by the merger of Tokyo Institute of Technology and Tokyo Medical and Dental University / in the science and engineering domain, undergraduates entering from 1 April 2019 pay 635,400 yen a year while those who entered in 2018 or earlier pay 535,800 yen; in the medical and dental domain, undergraduates entering from April 2020 pay 642,960 yen a year while those entering in 2019 or earlier pay 535,800 yen; the admission fee is 282,000 yen in both cases) — Institute of Science Tokyo, "Examination fee, tuition and admission fee" https://admissions.isct.ac.jp/ja/013/student-life-and-careers/tuition / the merger date is source 31
  13. Tokyo University of the Arts (national, founded 1887, Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo / undergraduate tuition 642,960 yen a year) — Tokyo University of the Arts, "Admission fee and tuition" https://www.geidai.ac.jp/life/entrance_fee/fine_arts (the same amount for the faculty of music https://www.geidai.ac.jp/life/entrance_fee/music ) / founding year from Wikipedia, "Tokyo University of the Arts" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E8%8A%B8%E8%A1%93%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6
  14. Meiji University (private, founded 1881, Surugadai / Izumi / Ikuta / Nakano) — Wikipedia, "Meiji University" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%8E%E6%B2%BB%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6 / the number of company presidents is source 31
  15. Rikkyo University (private, founded 1874, Ikebukuro / Niiza) — Wikipedia, "Rikkyo University" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AB%8B%E6%95%99%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6
  16. Hosei University (private, founded 1880, Ichigaya / Tama / Koganei) — Wikipedia, "Hosei University" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B3%95%E6%94%BF%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6 / the number of company presidents is source 31
  17. Aoyama Gakuin University (private, founded 1874, Aoyama / Sagamihara) — Wikipedia, "Aoyama Gakuin University" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9D%92%E5%B1%B1%E5%AD%A6%E9%99%A2%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6
  18. Chuo University (private, founded 1885, Tama / Korakuen / Myogadani and elsewhere) — Wikipedia, "Chuo University" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E5%A4%AE%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6 / the move of the faculty of law to Myogadani is source 35, the number of company presidents is source 31
  19. Yokohama City University (public, founded 1882, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama and elsewhere / undergraduate tuition for the 2026 academic year is 557,400 yen a year. The admission fee is 141,000 yen for city residents and 282,000 yen for others; the facilities fee, first year only, is 25,000 yen for city residents and 50,000 yen for others (150,000 yen and 200,000 yen respectively for the school of medicine). "City resident" means that the student or the person with the duty to support them has held resident registration in the city of Yokohama for at least a year before the date of entry) — Yokohama City University, "Fees and scholarships" https://www.yokohama-cu.ac.jp/admissions/about/fees/index.html / founding year from Wikipedia, "Yokohama City University" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A8%AA%E6%B5%9C%E5%B8%82%E7%AB%8B%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6
  20. Saitama University (national, founded 1873, Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama City / undergraduate tuition is 642,960 yen a year for those entering in the 2026 academic year (Reiwa 8) and 535,800 yen for those who entered in the 2025 academic year (Reiwa 7) or earlier; third-year transfer entrants and graduate students pay 535,800 yen) — Saitama University, "Guide to tuition" https://www.saitama-u.ac.jp/student/life/school_expenses/ / founding year from Wikipedia, "Saitama University" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9F%BC%E7%8E%89%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6
  21. Nihon University (private, founded 1889, Kudanminami, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo and elsewhere / with 16 faculties, the largest single university in Japan by student numbers and total assets) — Wikipedia, "Nihon University" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6 / the number of company presidents is source 31
  22. Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (national, founded 1874, Fuchu / Koganei / undergraduate tuition is 642,960 yen a year for students entering from the 2024 academic year and 535,800 yen for those who entered in 2023 or earlier; third-year transfer entrants pay 535,800 yen up to entry in 2025; admission fee 282,000 yen) — Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, "Tuition, admission fee and other charges" https://www.tuat.ac.jp/campuslife_career/campuslife/fee/ryoukin/ / founding year from Wikipedia, "Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E8%BE%B2%E5%B7%A5%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6
  23. Tokyo University of Science (private, founded 1881, Kagurazaka / Katsushika / Noda) — Wikipedia, "Tokyo University of Science" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E7%90%86%E7%A7%91%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6
  24. Musashi University (private, founded 1922, Ekoda, Nerima-ku, Tokyo / the Parallel Degree Program (PDP) with the University of London sits in the faculty of international liberal arts) — Musashi University official site https://www.musashi.ac.jp/ / founding year and campus from Wikipedia, "Musashi University" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AD%A6%E8%94%B5%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6
  25. International Christian University (private, founded 1949, college of liberal arts dedicated in 1953, Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo) — Wikipedia, "International Christian University" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9B%BD%E9%9A%9B%E5%9F%BA%E7%9D%A3%E6%95%99%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6 / campus area, halls of residence and students per member of teaching staff are source 36
  26. The University of Electro-Communications (national, founded 1918, Chofu, Tokyo / undergraduate tuition is 642,960 yen a year for students entering from April 2026 (Reiwa 8) and 535,800 yen for those who entered in the 2025 academic year or earlier; it applies to third-year transfer entrants from April 2028 and to students in the first half of the doctoral programme from April 2030; admission fee 282,000 yen) — The University of Electro-Communications, "List of admission fees and tuition" https://www.uec.ac.jp/campus/fee/ / founding year from Wikipedia, "The University of Electro-Communications" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9B%BB%E6%B0%97%E9%80%9A%E4%BF%A1%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6
  27. Shibaura Institute of Technology (private, founded 1927, Toyosu / Omiya / the Toyosu campus is seven minutes on foot from Toyosu Station on the Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line) — Shibaura Institute of Technology, "Access" https://www.shibaura-it.ac.jp/access/index.html / founding year from Wikipedia, "Shibaura Institute of Technology" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8A%9D%E6%B5%A6%E5%B7%A5%E6%A5%AD%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6
  28. Tsuda University (private, founded 1900, Kodaira / Sendagaya, Tokyo) — Wikipedia, "Tsuda University" https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B4%A5%E7%94%B0%E5%A1%BE%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6
  29. That the standard amount of undergraduate tuition at national universities is set at 535,800 yen a year, the admission fee at 282,000 yen and the examination fee at 17,000 yen (the table in article 2); that where there are special circumstances an amount may be set within a range not exceeding 120% of the standard amount = a ceiling of 642,960 yen (article 10); and that measures such as full or partial exemption from tuition, admission fees and hall fees are to be taken for those who find payment difficult for economic reasons (article 13) — e-Gov Law Search, "Ministerial Ordinance on Tuition and Other Fees at National Universities" (Ordinance No. 16 of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 2004) https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/416M60000080016
  30. That the published averages for private universities (students entering in the 2023 academic year, 600 universities covered) are 959,205 yen for tuition, 240,806 yen for the admission fee, 165,271 yen for facilities fees and 1,477,339 yen for total first-year payments — Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, "Results of the survey of student payments at private universities and others for entrants in the 2023 academic year" https://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/koutou/shinkou/07021403/1412031_00005.htm
  31. That on the tally of universities that company presidents graduated from, Nihon University leads with 19,587 for the fifteenth year running, followed by Keio University with 10,819, Waseda University with 10,625, Meiji University with 8,035, Chuo University with 7,325 and Hosei University with 5,876; that the University of Tokyo stands at 4,700, 10th for the seventh year running, and Institute of Science Tokyo 29th (the combination of two schools that stood 62nd as the former Tokyo Medical and Dental University and 92nd as the former Tokyo Institute of Technology a year earlier); that among presidents under 40 Keio University is the largest, followed by Waseda University and Nihon University, with the University of Tokyo 4th; that among long-established firms founded more than a century ago the order is Nihon University with 1,198 and Keio University with 1,112; and that Institute of Science Tokyo came into being on 1 October 2024. The survey extracts and tallies the published universities from the representative-director data (including sole proprietorships) in Tokyo Shoko Research's corporate database of about 4.4 million companies; where one person heads several companies the one with the largest revenue is counted; 329,830 companies fell outside the tally; the survey began in 2010 and this is its fifteenth edition — Tokyo Shoko Research, "'The universities company presidents graduated from': Nihon University tops the list for the fifteenth year running; among presidents under 40, Keio University is top," 20 November 2025 https://www.tsr-net.co.jp/data/detail/1202016_1527.html
  32. That undergraduate tuition at Tokyo Metropolitan University is published as 520,800 yen a year, and that from the 2024 academic year a scheme has exempted tuition in full for students whose financial supporter lives in Tokyo where household income is below a guideline of 9.1 million yen (households with several children qualify for a half exemption even above 9.1 million yen), applying to students already enrolled and not only to new entrants — Tokyo Metropolitan Government, "The new tuition exemption scheme at Tokyo Metropolitan University" https://www.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/documents/d/tosei/10_01_264 / Tokyo Metropolitan University, "Fees and financial support" https://www.tmu.ac.jp/campuslife_career/expenses.html
  33. That on 1 July 2026 Ochanomizu University published a proposal to revise tuition for undergraduates entering from April 2027 from the current 535,800 yen to 642,960 yen (a 20% increase on the current amount), with the final decision targeted for the end of October 2026; and that the current amount will apply to undergraduates who entered in the 2026 academic year or earlier, while the admission fee and the examination fee will not be revised — Ochanomizu University, "On the consideration of a proposed tuition revision for entrants from the 2027 academic year" https://www.ocha.ac.jp/news/d018091.html
  34. That Sophia University publishes the statement "all 9 faculties and 29 departments are gathered on the Yotsuya campus (apart from some classes of the nursing department)"; that the Yotsuya campus is five minutes on foot from the Kojimachi and Akasaka exits of Yotsuya Station on the JR Chuo Line and the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi and Namboku Lines; that the central library holds about 1.1 million books and about 11,000 periodical titles, roughly half of the collection in Western languages; and that the nursing department of the faculty of human sciences and the midwifery course receive their specialist teaching on the Mejiro Seibo campus — Sophia University admissions information, "Yotsuya campus" https://adm.sophia.ac.jp/jpn/campus_kengaku_ad/kengaku_yotsuya/
  35. That in April 2023 Chuo University moved the faculty of law, all four year groups, and the graduate school of law from the Tama campus to the Myogadani campus (Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo); that the Myogadani campus is one minute on foot from Myogadani Station on the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line; and that the faculties other than law remain on the Tama campus — Chuo University, "The four year groups of the faculty of law move to the Myogadani campus from April 2023" https://www.chuo-u.ac.jp/connect/future/law_transfer/
  36. That International Christian University has 18 students for every full-time member of the teaching staff; that the Mitaka campus covers about 620,000 square metres; and that its halls of residence comprise 10 buildings with about 900 places, in which about 30% of all students live — International Christian University, "Small-group, dialogue-based education" https://www.icu.ac.jp/academics/class/ / "Campus and facilities" https://www.icu.ac.jp/about/campus/ / "Why 30% of all students live on campus" https://www.icu.ac.jp/about/whyicu/page_16.html
  37. That seminars are compulsory at Hitotsubashi University, and that each seminar averages roughly 7 to 8 students — Hitotsubashi University admissions site, "Education at Hitotsubashi" https://juken.hit-u.ac.jp/about/class/
  38. That Waseda University's Mezase! Miyako no Seihoku Scholarship is a pre-application grant scholarship, open to graduates of Japanese high schools outside Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa (excluding the islands of Tokyo), paying 450,000 yen a year (the school of political science and economics and others), 650,000 yen (the school of human sciences and others) or 700,000 yen (the science faculties) — Waseda University, "Pre-application scholarships" https://www.waseda.jp/inst/scholarship/aid/programs/pre-approved/
  39. That Keio University's Gakumon no Susume Scholarship is a pre-application grant scholarship, open to graduates of Japanese high schools and equivalent institutions outside the Greater Tokyo area (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba), paying 600,000 yen a year (900,000 yen for the school of medicine, 800,000 yen for the faculty of pharmacy), with a further 200,000 yen, the equivalent of the admission fee, in the first year — Keio University students' site, "Gakumon no Susume Scholarship" https://www.students.keio.ac.jp/other/prospective-students/scholarship-gakumon.html
  40. That Gakushuin University has, besides the Mejiro campus, the Toyama campus (3-20-1 Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo), where the faculty of intercultural communication was placed following the merger of Gakushuin Women's College in April 2026; and that Gakushuin junior and senior high school and the kindergarten share the Mejiro campus — Gakushuin University, "Campus guide" https://www.univ.gakushuin.ac.jp/about/facilities/ / Wikipedia, "Gakushuin University," history and location sections https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AD%A6%E7%BF%92%E9%99%A2%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6
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