Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences

Location

The University is located in Hachioji, Japan. Hachioji is a city located in the western position of Tokyo metropolitan, Japan. Hachioji is located in the foothills of the Okutama Mountains of western Tokyo, about 40 kilometers west to the center of the 23 special wards of Tokyo. The city is surrounded on three sides by mountains, forming the Hachioji Basin which opens up towards the east in the direction of the Tokyo. The sister cities of Hachioji are – “Siheung, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea”, “Kaosiung, Taiwan”, and “Taian, Shandong, People’s Republic of China”. During the Meiji Period, Hachioji prospered as an important location for the production of silk and silk textiles. The industry faded away, however, in the 1960s.

Campus

The University’s Campus is approximately 27 hectares in size. Surrounded by abundant greenery, the campus includes educational and research facilities for students, sports facilities, and more everything a student could need. There are 70 classrooms and lecture halls of varying sizes, for small classes to full school assemblies. The center’s book collection contains 62,000 volumes in Japanese and 37,000 volumes in other languages in the fields of medicine, pharmaceutics, and Life Sciences. The facility for animal experiments is a two-story freestanding reinforced concrete structure finished with brick. It has one of the largest medicinal plant gardens in Japan at just over 4 hectares.

Residing Options

Students are living in dormitories or apartment houses happily. Separate dormitories are available for girls and boys students. There are on-campus facilities to support student life includes lounges, cafeterias, a convenience store, student service counters, health clinic, and consulting rooms. On-campus sports facilities include a sports ground, gymnasium, tennis courts, and a Japanese Archery range.

Faculty

The University has a faculty to staff ratio of about 1:25. The University has a total number of faculty staff of about 152 and a total number of students of University are 3,851 including 0.1% of International students. The number of students per staff is about 18.4. From 3,851 of total students, 6% are PG students and rest 94% are UG students.