History

The University of Tokyo held a centennial ceremony on April 12, 1977. This marked exactly 100 years since the Tokyo Kaisei School and Tokyo Medical School merged to form the University of Tokyo in 1877.

At the time, the University consisted of four faculties: Law, Science, Letters, and Medicine, with the Department of Engineering located within the Faculty of Science.

The Department of Engineering was divided into Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering in the final year, and its first graduates were Isoji Ishiguro, Mitsugu Sendai, and Zentaro Yamada, all of whom graduated with Bachelor of Science degrees in 1878.

This is why the Meiji section of the register begins with a Bachelor of Science.

In 1885, the Department of Engineering in the Faculty of Science developed into the Faculty of Industrial Arts.

The following year, 1886, with the promulgation of the Imperial University Act, the University of Tokyo merged with the Imperial College of Engineering to become Imperial University. At this point, the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo and the College of Engineering became the Imperial University College of Engineering.

The predecessor to the College of Engineering was the Ministry of Engineering's Engineering Dormitory, opened in 1873. It became the College of Engineering in 1877, and until the aforementioned merger in 1886, it produced many outstanding engineers.

The list includes a Bachelor of Science entry followed by a Bachelor of Engineering entry, and although those up until the 1885 class were graduates of the College of Engineering, they are listed here because they were the predecessors of the Imperial University's School of Engineering.

In 1897, Kyoto Imperial University was opened, and the Imperial University became Tokyo Imperial University.

Then, in 1919, with the revision of the Imperial University Act, the specialized colleges were converted into faculties, and thereafter became the Faculty of Engineering at Tokyo Imperial University.

In 1942, with the opening of the Second Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Engineering became two faculties: the First Faculty of Engineering and the Second Faculty of Engineering.

After World War II, Tokyo Imperial University reverted to the name University of Tokyo in 1947.

The Second Faculty of Engineering continued to produce graduates until March 1951, when it became the Institute of Industrial Science, where it remains to this day.

The 1954 branch campus graduates refer to the graduates of a special class of students taught at the former Second Faculty during the transitional period of the university system.

With the abolition of the Second Faculty of Engineering in 1951, graduates from 1952 onwards are considered to be graduates of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo. Students under the old system graduated in 1953.

In light of the diversifying values ​​and the current situation surrounding civil engineering in recent years, the name of the department for students entering the College of Liberal Arts was changed in 1987 from Civil Engineering to two departments: Civil Engineering and Civil Infrastructure Systems Planning.

Furthermore, with the establishment of graduate schools at the University of Tokyo, the Department of Civil Engineering in the Graduate School of Engineering was established in 1996, and remains in existence to this day.