Fifteen years have passed since the School of Informatics was established in April 2007. The School aims to develop human resources who can understand social and cultural activities developed by all information technologies such as recording, accumulating, sharing, processing, utilizing, and their related basic sciences to create future information environments.

At the time of the establishment of the school, the domestic service of the smartphone was started in earnest, and it was about time when because Internet access was enabled anywhere anytime, various network services such as SNS (Social Networking Services) had begun to accomplish rapid growth. The field of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) has seen tremendous progress and development. In recent years, the field has been undergoing tremendous progress and development, especially based on DX (Digital Transformation) that makes advanced use of advanced ICT technologies such as CPS (Cyber Physical Systems), AI (Artificial Intelligence), Big Data, and so on. The creation of a future society is becoming increasingly important. In recent years, in particular, the creation of a new society based on DX (Digital Transformation) that highly utilizes advanced ICT technologies such as CPS (Cyber Physical Systems), AI (Artificial Intelligence), and Big Data, etc., is becoming increasingly important.

In order to respond to the background of the times and the needs of society, the school is composed of three colleges: College of Information Science (student capacity 80 and transfer student capacity 10); College of Media Arts, Science and Technology (student capacity 50 and transfer student capacity 10); College of Knowledge and Library Sciences (student capacity 100 and transfer student capacity 10). In April 2022, about 130 faculty members are involved in teaching and research.

The curriculum covers virtually all aspects of information sciences such as the fields of science and engineering including programming, algorithms, mathematical science, communication technology, natural language, and music, sound, and image processing technology, and the interdisciplinary field of integration of arts and sciences related to cognitive science, media content, as well as the field of humanities and social sciences, such as knowledge science, information management, and library science. It covers a wide range of areas from the foundational to the applied areas of the discipline. In addition, we are also committed to training engineers and researchers with comprehensive practical skills. One example of this is the “Embedded Technology Campus OJT (On the Job Training) program”, an industry-academia collaboration program conducted in cooperation with leading-edge ICT companies.

The University of Tsukuba is “open in every sense” in its policy and the aim to “Continue to be a Front-Runner in envisioning and realizing the future”. I sincerely hope that all of you who are full of dreams, hopes, and ambitions will join us at the School of Informatics to learn, think, worry, work hard, and grow together to become human resources who will “Create the future information environment”.