University of Tsukuba (筑波大学) 4.51

University of Tsukuba (筑波大学, Tsukuba daigaku) is located in the city of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture in the Kantō region of Japan. The University has 28 college clusters and schools with a total of around 15,000 students (in 2003). The main Tsukuba campus covers an area of 258 hectares (636 acres), making it the largest single campus in Japan.

It is famous in the research of physical education, medical science, library and Information science, physics and social science. Its Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences is represented on the national Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction.