Education in Tokyo

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Various schools and universities serve Tokyo, Japan.

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[edit] Primary and secondary schools

Publicly run kindergartens, elementary schools (years 1 through 6), and junior high schools (7 through 9) are operated by local wards or municipal offices. Public high schools in Tokyo are run by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education and are called "Metropolitan High Schools". Tokyo also has many private schools from kindergarten through high school.[1]

[edit] Colleges and universities

The capital of Japan, Tokyo is home to many public and private universities.

[edit] Ranking

See also List of universities in Tokyo.

Various groups rank colleges and universities worldwide. See College and university rankings.

In 2005 The Times Higher Education Supplement ranked the University of Tokyo at 12th worldwide, which is the highest among the universities in Japan.

The EMP Professional Ranking of World Universities lists Keio first among the private universities located in Tokyo. Its rank is 11. Waseda follows with a rank of 15. Chuo University is next at 18.

According to Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong, the top-ranked private universities in Tokyo are Keio (ranked in the 25–42 group), Waseda (ranked in the 43–64 group), Juntendo (in the 65–100 group), and Nihon (also ranked in the 65–100 group).

Webometrics ranks Keio at fifth in Asia. Following it are Waseda at 45, Hosei at 65, Nihon at 66, Meiji at 92, and Sophia at 100.

The Wuhan University rankings place Keio at 254th worldwide. Ranked 415th, Waseda is next, and Nihon came in at 448.

QS Top Universities: Top 400 universities in the THES - QS World University Rankings 2007 puts Keio in 161st place and Waseda in 180th. Showa at 318 and Tokyo University of Science at 364 follow.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ 東京都高等学校一覧 (Japanese). Japanese Wikipedia. Retrieved on 2007-10-19.

[edit] Further reading

  • College Quality and Earnings in the Japanese Labor Market. Hiroshi Ono. SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance No 395 (Revised March 11, 2003).
  • Educational Credentials and Promotion Chances in Japanese and American Organizations. Hiroshi Ishida, Seymour Spilerman & Kuo-Hsien Su. American Sociological Review, Vol 62, No 6 (Dec., 1997), pp. 866-882.
  • "Gakureki shakai kasetsu no kento" (Examining the educational credentialism hypothesis). Bunshiro Ando. In Kenichi Tominaga, ed., Nihon no Kaiso Kozo (1994) University of Tokyo Press, pp. 275-292.
  • A Review of Higher Education Reform in Modern Japan. Paul Doyon. Higher Education, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Jun., 2001), pp. 443-470.
  • Japan's Top 30 Universities. William Currie. International Higher Education, Winter 2002 [1]
  • Engineering Tasks for the New Century: Japanese and U.S. Perspectives (1999) Office of International Affairs [2]
  • www.yozemi.ac.jp/rank/gakubu/
  • www.toshin.com/daigakuranking/