Tohoku

Sources

• Tohoku University undergraduate programs https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/academics/undergraduate.html

  The official page lists undergraduate faculties and schools, departments and degree courses taught in English; the main structure is built around the selected faculty or school rather than an open programme.

  Model elements: the basic undergraduate architecture fixes the main field through a faculty or school; this source does not show a university-wide post-enrollment major choice.

• Tohoku University General Education https://www2.he.tohoku.ac.jp/zengaku/zengaku_gaiyou.html

  The General Education page describes four curriculum categories from 2022: foundational subjects, advanced subjects, language subjects and academic basics, with groups such as humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, interdisciplinary subjects, languages and academic basics.

  Model elements: course choice level 2, because course flexibility is embedded in distribution-style university-wide groups rather than a fully free elective pool.

• Tohoku University Challenge College https://www2.he.tohoku.ac.jp/zengaku/zengaku_cc.html

  Tohoku University Challenge College describes five thematic programmes, including Global Leader, Computational Data Science, Entrepreneurial Leader, SDGs and Plurilingual Studies; each programme has completion requirements and students who complete a programme receive an official open badge.

  Model elements: this is an additional certified pathway alongside the primary faculty programme; the source separately states that its requirements differ from faculty progression and graduation requirements, so it does not support programChoice above 0.

• Tohoku University General Education Guide https://www2.he.tohoku.ac.jp/center/guide/zengakukyouiku202204_v3.pdf

  The guide shows an interdisciplinary curriculum with humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, interdisciplinary subjects, modern liberal arts, frontier academic subjects, languages and academic basics; Challenge College is described as an optional set of thematic programmes for study with students from other faculties.

  Model elements: the source confirms a distribution-style course-choice model and an additional certificate-like pathway, but does not prove a minor inside the main degree, double major or open curriculum.

• Open Courses for the 2026 academic year https://www2.he.tohoku.ac.jp/center/keiji/info/260316a-9.pdf

  The open-courses document states that selected basic specialised subjects designated by faculties may be recognised as General Education credits; it lists target students, years, quotas and registration procedure.

  Model elements: internal cross-faculty credited choice exists, but it is limited to designated courses and therefore does not raise the assessment to free electives.

• THE World University Rankings 2026 https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2026/world-ranking

  The official Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026 page lists Tohoku University at rank =103 in the rankingsData payload.

  Model elements: this source is used only for the rankings.the2026 field.

• Student numbers, Tohoku University https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/profile/about/06/about0601/

  The official Tohoku University student-numbers page, as of 1 May 2025, reports 10,733 enrolled students in the 学部学生 category.

  The undergraduateEnrollment value uses the 学部学生 row. It includes undergraduate faculties, including medicine, dentistry and pharmacy; the specialist category does not apply to the Japanese model.