Toyohashi University of Technology (Japanese:豊橋技術科学大学,Hepburn:Toyohashi Gijutsu Kagaku Daigaku), often abbreviated toToyohashi Tech orTUT, is anationalengineering university located inToyohashi,Aichi,Japan. Distinguished for the upper-division student body where over 80% of them are transfer students from 5-year Technical Colleges calledKōsens, the Toyohashi Tech is one of the only two Universities of Technology, a form of universities in Japan, the other beingNagaoka University of Technology. Toyohashi Tech is also noted for the fact that majority of the students proceed tograduate schools. The university is locally nicknamedGikadai (技科大).
One of the buildings of Toyohashi University of Technology
Toyohashi University of Technology was founded on October 1, 1976,[2] after the government’s decision to establish the Graduate School of Science and Technology in Toyohashi city in 1974. This is based on the request from Japanese National Technical Colleges, to the Minister of Education in 1972.[3]
