Our Objectives

Give Students, faculty
members and administrative staff
greater opportunity to explore their full potential
by exponentially enhancing mobility and
breaking all barriers that stand between nations and institutions.

EXPLORE POTENTIALS TRANSCENDING BARRIERS GLOBAL RESOURCES

Enable faculty and students to
engage in research and education that take advantage of all available
global resources
by transcending all barriers
that stand between
nations and institutions.

POINTS OF REFORM POINTS OF REFORM

Our Vision

EDUCATIONAL REFORM

RESEARCH REFORM

GOVERNANCE REFORM

MISSION

Creating knowledge and developing global leaders to help resolve global issues.

FOUNDING
PHILOSOPHY

Open to the world, to the
society, beyond disciplines,
etc.

EDUCATIONAL REFORM

Develop global leaders to resolve global issues.
Improve student mobility

CAMPUS-IN-CAMPUS

COURSE JUKEBOX SYSTEM

WORLD STANDARD DEGREE PROGRAMS

REFORM OF ADMISSION PROCEDURES

RELATED PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS

Global 30 Project

Program for Leading Graduate Schools

Project for the Promotion of Global Human Resource Development

Re-Inventing Japan Project

Project for Promoting the Enhancement of National Universities

MORE ABOUT

COURSE JUKEBOX SYSTEM
CAMPUS-IN-CAMPUS

Jukebox System

Using the analogy of the music jukebox, the CiC initiative is based on the idea that students
can choose the courses they need in much the same way they could select their songs from
the machine and create a playlist.

COURSE JUKEBOX SYSTEM

Foreign
Uni B

Research
Institute in
Tsukuba
Science
City

Foreign
Uni A

Affiliated
HSs

RESEARCH REFORM

Promote research to generate innovation
Produce more international joint papers

CAMPUS-IN-CAMPUS

PROMOTION OF COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH

VIA CAMPUS-IN-CAMPUS SCHEME


BRINGING WORLD-CLASS RESEARCH UNITS
FROM ABROAD

RELATED PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS

Program for Promoting the Enhancement of Research Universities

International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (IIIS)

Center for Cybernics Research

Campus-in-Campus

We shall share campuses with our partner institutions by allowing one
another to utilize our respective research and educational resources without
any national or institutional barriers.

Share classes and
teaching staff through
the Course Jukebox
System

Share labs, research and educational
units through joint appointments of
researchers and staff

CiC: COURSE JUKEBOX SYSTEM - JOINT DEGREE PROGRAMS
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By AY2023, we plan to
establish CiC in 13 of our
overseas partners.

GOVERNANCE REFORM

Take advantage of resources the world has to offer

Annual salary system

International tenure track system

Human Resource point system

Joint employment of academic staff

Increase the number of non-Japanese academic staff

Internationalization of administrative staff

TSUKUBA
TEN YEARS
LATER

CAMPUS-IN-CAMPUS

ALL REFORMS IN EDUCATION, RESEARCH, AND
GOVERNANCE LEAD TO BECOMING A TRULY
WORLD-CLASS TRANSBORDER
UNIVERSITY

Tsukuba Ten Years Later

Join the World's Top 100 Universities via Education, Research, and Governance reforms