Tokyo Metropolitan University

The origin of Tokyo Metropolitan University was Prefectural Higher School established by Tokyo Prefecture in 1929 but later changed the name to current Tokyo Metropolitan in 1949. The Tokyo Metropolitan is a public research University and contains Faculties of Urban Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Law and Politics, Business Administration, Science and Engineering, Urban Environmental Sciences, System Design, Health Sciences and has five campuses. Metropolitan has over 8500 students and close to 700 full-time academic staff.