In practice, they share faculty, facilities, and other research and educational resources, and operate as a single entity.

At the time, Japan had just ended its two-century-long self-imposed seclusion, while Western Europe was in the midst of the Industrial Revolution.

[1] The School has been considered the pioneer of modern engineering education and research in Japan.

In 1877, the British architect Josiah Conder was invited to teach, which established a formal architecture curriculum.

In April 2008, with the reorganisation of relevant graduate schools, these two undergraduate programmes were merged into the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Students are allocated to each department separately, though some lectures and experiments are conducted jointly.

[12] The school is widely regarded as having the best educational and research standards in the country across most of the fields it covers.