Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo

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Faculty of Economics
Graduate School of Economics
経済学部・経済学研究科
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Graduate School of Economics Building
Established1908 (1908) (as part of the Faculty of Law)
1919 (1919) (as an independent faculty)
Affiliation University of Tokyo
Dean of Faculty Taiji Furusawa
Location,
Japan
Website https://www.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index-e.html

The Faculty of Economics is one of the ten constituent faculties of the University of Tokyo. Its affiliated graduate school is the Graduate School of Economics, and they operate as one organisation in practice. It is located on the main Hongo Campus in Bunkyo, Tokyo.

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History

Records show that economics was taught at the university as early as in 1878. The Faculty of Economics was established in 1919, following the separation of the Department of Economics, created in 1908 from the Department of Political Science at the Faculty of Law, and the Department of Commerce, established in 1909. [1]

Organisation

Undergraduate

Senior division undergraduates who wish to study economics are matriculated into one of the following departments after the shingaku sentaku.

Postgraduate

About a third of the postgraduate student body consists of international students. [2]

Research centres [3]

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References

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