Organization

History

The Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences was established in fiscal 2000 as a school focused on five-year consecutive doctoral programs, during the restructuring of the University of Tsukuba to provide a greater emphasis on graduate-level education.

In fiscal 2005, the five programs of Structural Biosciences, Functional Biosciences, Appropriate Technology and Science for Sustainable Development, Biosphere Resource Science and Technology, and Life Sciences and Bioengineering moved to a separate master's and doctoral program system, with Geoenvironmental Sciences, Earth Evolution Sciences and Integrative Environmental Sciences being left as they were. Biological Sciences and Agro-bioresources Sciences and Technology were added as master's programs, while Bioindustrial Sciences and Advanced Agricultural Technology and Sciences, a cooperative graduate school program, were added to the existing five doctoral programs, bringing the total number of doctoral programs to seven.

In fiscal 2007, the Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences was re-established, offering 10 doctoral programs and a five-year doctoral program, with 4 master's programs:
Geoenvironmental Sciences, Earth Evolution Sciences, Structural Biosciences, Functional Biosciences, Bioindustrial Sciences, Appropriate Technology and Science for Sustainable Development, Biosphere Resource Science and Technology, Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Advanced Agricultural Technology and Sciences, and Sustainable Environmental Studies for doctoral programs. Integrative Environmental Sciences for five-year doctoral program. Earth Sciences, Biological Sciences, Agro-bioresource Sciences and Tecnology, and Environmental Sciences for master's program.

Research Centers

• Agricultural and Forestry Research Center
• Terrestrial Environment Research Center
• Gene Research Center
• Sugadaira Montane Research Center
• Shimoda Marine Research Center

The Cooperative Graduate School

• Meteorological Research Institute
• National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention
• National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
• National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
• National Institute for Environmental Studies
• RIKEN
• National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS)
• Tokyo Metropolitan Organaization for Medical Research
• National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences
• National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
• Natiolal Institute for Rural Engineering
• National Food Research Institute (NFRI)
• Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute

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