Notable programs
BSc Materials Science Engineering (English Track)
English-medium undergraduate track launched in 2024 at the School of Engineering, building on the Institute for Materials Research's century-long lineage. Direct laboratory placement from year three into Kinken research groups working on magnetic materials, semiconductor physics, structural alloys, and sustainable materials. Feeds directly into Toshiba, Renesas, Sony Semiconductor, NIMS, and graduate programs at MIT, Stanford, ETH Zurich, and the Max Planck network.
MD Medicine, Tohoku University School of Medicine and Hospital
Six-year integrated medical degree (Japanese-medium) at the Seiryo campus, with Tohoku University Hospital as one of Japan's leading academic medical centers and a designated specific functional hospital. Strong residency placement across Northeast Japan, with research depth in genomic medicine (the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project, launched after 2011 to study disaster-affected populations), regenerative medicine, and disaster medicine.
BSc Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (FGL English Track)
Future Global Leadership undergraduate program in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering — one of Tohoku's longest-running English-medium tracks. Tight integration with JAXA collaborations, the Tohoku precision-machinery industrial corridor, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering's research in robotics, fluid dynamics, and aerospace propulsion.
BA Japanese Literature (Imperial Heritage Track)
Japanese-medium undergraduate program at the Faculty of Arts and Letters with one of the strongest Japanese literature departments in the country — a direct inheritance from the Imperial University period. Distinguished modern Japanese literature, classical (kanbun and waka) studies, and folkloric Tohoku-region research drawing on the Yanagita Kunio lineage.
MSc Disaster Medicine and Structural Engineering (IRIDeS)
Graduate programs at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science, founded 2012 after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Combines disaster medicine, structural-resilience engineering, tsunami modeling, and disaster social science in ways that no other institution globally replicates at this scale. Feeds into Japanese government policy, UN disaster-risk-reduction agencies, JAXA earth-observation collaborations, and global earthquake-resilience standards-setting.
Institute for Materials Research (Kinken) Graduate Track
Founded 1916, widely considered the strongest materials-science research institute in Asia. Foundational Mn-Si magnetic alloy work, sustained semiconductor research feeding the Tohoku industrial corridor, and ongoing research in magnetic materials, superconductors, structural alloys, and quantum materials. Top-10 globally in materials science by subject ranking systems.
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