The Department of Literature at Tohoku University was born from the Tōhoku Imperial University Faculty of Law and Literature, established in Katahira-chō, Sendai in 1922. A creation of the "Taishō Democracy" period that followed the First World War (1914-1918), the Department of Law gathered professors leading the work in modernizing the liberal arts, their lectures attracting the interest of not only students of the humanities, but also students studying education, law, and economics.

The Graduate School of Architecture has five divisions in the master’s degree program, and four divisions in the doctoral degree program. Architects have always striven to create architectural designs realizing the connection between society, nature, and living spaces. Our courses are designed to provide students with both professional architectural skills and a strong sense of creativity. In order to obtain a master’s degree in the subject, students have the option of writing a thesis or creating and presenting an architectural design.

The Tohoku University Faculty of Education was established after World War II in May 1949 with the purpose of promoting educational research and instructor training. In May 1953, the Master’s and Doctoral Programs, comprising of the two majors, Pedagogy and Educational Psychology, were established, forming the Graduate School of Education.

Design engineering is an area of study which truly exemplifies the motto of our college, “From Creation to Integration.” The art of design is based on the close relationship of human sensibility, society, the living environment, and scientific technology. Design, production, and ways of expression all concern the relationships between objects, open spaces, and humans, and they should not be studied separately. The interaction among objects and humans, living with nature, and the problems of the regional industrial economy should also be studied based on the unity of various fields of science. Thus, under the principle, “From Creation to Integration,” we aim to equip students with high proficiency in research founded upon rich scholastic knowledge for engaging in professional work in a special field of design engineering or for pursuing research activities as an independent researcher.

Students in the Department of Electrical, Information and Physics Engineering, starting from a grounding in electrical, communications, electronic, and information engineering as well as in applied physics, engage in research in such areas as the supply and use of electrical energy, next-generation information, and communications systems, functional materials and devices making use of nanotechnologies, the application of electronics technologies to medical care and welfare, electric vehicles, intelligent robots, and plasma engine for outer space vehicles. Through their studies and experiences, they obtain the necessary research ability and knowledge for becoming leaders as core and specialized engineers.

We now live in a highly developed IT society. Electronic engineering is one of the key technologies driving information technology. It involves the study of a wide spectrum of technologies from materials to devices, equipment, measurement, control, and systems. In the master’s program, students carry out research projects with the purpose of becoming highly skilled engineers. In the doctoral program, students focus on their research, aiming at becoming leading academics and engineers.