Its affiliated graduate school is the Graduate School of Economics, and they operate as one organisation in practice.

It is located on the main Hongo Campus in Bunkyo, Tokyo.

Records show that economics was taught at the university as early as in 1878.

The Faculty of Economics was established in 1919,[1] following the separation of the Department of Economics, created in 1908 from the Department of Political Science at the Faculty of Law, and the Department of Commerce, established in 1909.

[2] Senior division undergraduates who wish to study economics are matriculated into one of the following departments after the shingaku sentaku.