| Toyota Technological Institute | |
| Native Name: | 豊田工業大学 |
| Image Alt: | Toyota Technological Institute (2016.04.17) |
| Motto: | 研究と創造に心を致し、常に時流に先んずべし |
| Mottoeng: | Respect the spirit of research and creativity, and always strive to stay ahead of the times. |
| Type: | Private |
| Academic Staff: | 35 (+ part time 48)[1] |
| Students: | 454[2] |
| Undergrad: | 352 |
| Postgrad: | 101 |
| City: | Nagoya |
| Country: | Japan |
| Coor: | 35.1065°N 136.983°W |
| Campus: | Urban |
| Website: | Toyota Technological Institute |
The (commonly referred to as TTI) is a university located in Nagoya, Japan. Founded in 1981 by a large endowment from Toyota Motor Corporation, it originally only accepted students with some industrial work experience.
TTI has a School of Engineering, a Master's Program, and a Doctoral Program. The programs consist of three areas of coursework: Mechanical Systems Engineering, Electronics & Information Science, and Materials Science & Engineering.[3]
In 2003 Toyota also opened the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, jointly with the University of Chicago. This campus is mainly for Ph.D students, studying Machine Learning, Algorithms & Complexity, Computer Vision, Speech Technologies and Computational Biology.[4]
TSU ranked TTI as the 5th best Japanese university in 2010 and 4th in 2011.[5] [6] In this ranking, TTI has a best employment rate among all Japanese Universities.
In 2012, TTI was ranked 1st in Asia in terms of average number of publication per faculty by the QS World University Rankings.[7]