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Engineering & Science in English, Tohoku University

Program Affiliation: University of California, Irvine - Study Abroad Center

Location: Sendai Japan

Tohoku University, one of Japan’s oldest universities and world famous as a leader in innovative research, offers science and engineering students the opportunity to:

- Become an active participant in a lab team conducting cutting-edge research
- Conduct an individual research project, and submit your results in English
- Take cou... read more Tohoku University, one of Japan’s oldest universities and world famous as a leader in innovative research, offers science and engineering students the opportunity to:

- Become an active participant in a lab team conducting cutting-edge research
- Conduct an individual research project, and submit your results in English
- Take courses taught in English through the Junior Year Program in English (JYPE)
- The School of Engineering, the largest branch of the university, emphasizes research through lab work and seminars in such fields as biochemistry, geology, aerospace engineering, materials science, and agricultural science.

Tohoku University is located in Sendai, a city of one million in the scenic northern part of Honshu and renowned for its natural beauty, facing the Pacific Ocean on the east with mountains to the west. Sendai is known as the “city of green” and is the cultural, commercial, and transportation center of the region of Tohoku, just a two-hour bullet-train ride from Tokyo.

Students attend classes with international and/or host country students. Less