About TCU

 

History

1929
Founded as Musashi Senior Engineering School.
1949
Under the Educational Reform Law, the school was renamed Musashi Institute of Technology.
1955
The name of the educational corporation was changed to GotoIkueikai Educational Foundation after incorporating Toyoko Gakuen.
1960
The Atomic Energy Research Laboratory was founded.
1966
The Graduate School of Engineering was established and offered master’s course.
1968
The Graduate School of Engineering was established and offered doctoral course.
1979
The Information Processing Center was founded.
1992
The Hydrogen Energy Research Center was established.
1997
The Faculty of Environmental and Information Studies was established.
1998
Became the first university in Japan (Faculty of Environmental and Information Studies) to acquire certification under the ISO 14001 Environment Management System.
1999
The Advanced Research Center for Energy and the Environment was established.
2001
The Graduate School of Environmental and Information Studies was established and offered a Master’s course.
2004
Advanced Research Laboratories was founded.
2005
A doctoral course in Environmental and Information Studies was established.
2007
The Faculty of Knowledge Engineering was established.
2009
Renamed Tokyo City University.
The Faculty of Urban Life Studies was established.
The Faculty of Human Life Sciences was established.
2012
The Liberal Arts and Science was established.
2013
The Faculty of Environmental Studies was established.
The Faculty of Informatics was established.
2018
The Graduate School of Engineering was renamed to the Graduate School of Integrative Science and Engineering.
2019
Tokyo City University International Dormitory was established.
90th anniversary of the company’s founding.
2020
The Faculty of Engineering was renamed to the Faculty of Science and Engineering.
The Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design was established.
The Faculty of Knowledge Engineering was renamed to the Faculty of Information Technology.
2022
The School of Urban Life Studies and the School of Human Sciences at Todoroki Campus are relocated to Setagaya Campus.
2023
The Department of Design and Data Science was established.
The Department of Children’s Studies is renamed the Department of Human Sciences.
The Research Institute moves its functions to the Setagaya Campus.