Distinguished for the upper-division student body where over 80% of them are transfer students from 5-year Technical Colleges called Kōsens, the Toyohashi Tech is one of the only two Universities of Technology, a form of universities in Japan, the other being Nagaoka University of Technology.

Toyohashi Tech is also noted for the fact that majority of the students proceed to graduate schools.

The university is locally nicknamed Gikadai (技科大).

Toyohashi University of Technology was founded on October 1, 1976,[2] after the government’s decision to establish the Graduate School of Science and Technology in Toyohashi city in 1974.

This is based on the request from Japanese National Technical Colleges, to the Minister of Education in 1972.