Hello From AOBAYAMA | School of Engineering, Tohoku University

Due to the fact that over 90% of engineering students here enter Master Degree course after the undergraduate study, a six-year (four-year undergraduate plus two-master course) consecutive engineering education program is initiated to enhance professional engineering education based on the Students’ Study Evaluation Standard, which is the first such standard established in the national universities in Japan. The program is complemented through a newly set up “Institute for Engineering Education”. One feature of the program is introducing the PDCA (plan, do, check, action) cycle, which is widely adopted in the education systems of the world leading research universities, into this program. The aim of this new study system is to strengthen the training of the talented researchers who can potentially play an active role at the frontier of research in the world, as well as top technical personnel who can take leading role in advanced industry in the future.

http://www.jsps.go.jp/j-hakasekatei/saitaku.html (in Japanese)

Organization for Leading Graduate School Program, Tohoku University
http://lgs.tohoku.ac.jp/ (in Japanese)

Two programs in Tohoku University have been adopted.

* Inter-Graduate School of Doctoral Program on Science for Global Safety
http://g-safety.tohoku.ac.jp/en/about/purpose/
* Multi-dimension Materials Science Leaders
http://m-dimension.tohoku.ac.jp/eng/

Tohoku University: 1st rank, in eight consecutive year 2006-2013
Investigation of Nihon Keizai Shimbun Publishing, “University ranking from high schools” (2006-2013)
http://www.bureau.tohoku.ac.jp/alumni/number/201209/ (in Japanese)

Tohoku University: 1st rank (2013)
Investigation of Nihon Keizai Shimbun, “University ranking from graduates on "education research satisfaction“ (2013)
http://www.bureau.tohoku.ac.jp/alumni/number/201301/index.html (in Japanese)