The Programs in English at Komaba (PEAK) of the University of Tokyo, our first undergraduate degree program conducted in a language other than Japanese, was established in October 2012. Since then, many talented students have flown high to the world stage.
In this program, students receive most or all of their education in a non-Japanese language from the PEAK faculty members who are making great efforts to broaden and enrich their approaches to both teaching and content for PEAK classes. They endeavor to instill in PEAK students not only the long fostered UTokyo’s liberal arts education to obtain the comprehensive understanding of the world’s complex reality, but also the global communication abilities and the imagination necessary to comprehend fully the many problems facing human society across the globe.
While PEAK is a small program that selects only a few new excellent students each year, we believe it is undoubtedly one of UTokyo’s most important endeavors.

Takumi Moriyama
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences