The Faculty of Science had started the "Short Visit Program" back in 1999 to provide undergraduate students the opportunity to see the world in a broad perspective. The program was renamed as "Elite Science Student Visit Abroad Program" in 2006 to send the very best students among Juniors and Seniors to the top universities in the world. So far, the accumulative program participants are 97 in total. The 5th ESSVAP will be carried out in March 2012.
1st Louis Pasteur
Every year, 10 students are given the opportunity to visit a university abroad by the “short visit program” organized by the faculty of science. This year, the university of Louis Pasteur (ULP), France, was the host university. ULP is located in Strasbourg and especially famous in the fields of science. Lots of excellent students and researchers gather from all over the world.
2nd Padova
The 5th Overseas Visit Program of the Faculty of Science was held at the University of Padova in Italy. Nine students with different backgrounds from various departments gathered to participate in this international exchange program. The University of Padova is one of the most prestigious universities in Italy. It is considered to be the best university in the natural sciences in Italy, and it is especially strong in physics.
3rd UC Berkeley, Stanford
The 6th Overseas Visit Program of the Faculty of Science was held at UC Berkeley and Stanford University in U.S.A. Eight students from five departments gathered to participate in this international exchange program. Both of UC Berkeley and Stanford University are most prestigious universities in the world, which take leads in many academic fields and have a lot of Nobel Prize winner.
4th Harvard University & MIT
Science Student Visit Abroad Program (ESSVAP) is a program for selected students of the science department to visit universities abroad. The main objects of this program is to know about the standard of research for our study after this, to understand the system of foreign universities and to strengthen interaction with such universities through laboratory tours, meetings with professors and discussions with foreign students. This program was conducted under the name of "Short Visit Program" six times until last year. The name was changed this year to advance the international exchange all the more and it is the memorable first activity of ESSVAP this year. Selected students are as follows.
5th Cambridge & Oxford
Two cities, so called "Oxbridge," are themselves universities.
In these towns, most of pedestrians are somehow involved in their universities. Cambridge and Oxford university are famous not only because of their profound history, but also of their research throughout entire academic field.
Therefore, Elite Science Student Visit Abroad Program in 2008 (ESSVAP2008) decided to visit "Oxbridge" for the purposes of catching their flavor and exchanging experience in students.
6th UC Berkeley & Stanford
Blessed with the forever wonderful weather conferred by the subterranean climate, California is the apple of the eye of the whole US. Moreover, it is the home of two world-famed Universities, i.e.-UC Berkeley, the number one public college both active mentally and physically, and Stanford which is always contending for the first place in the world with Harvard and Yale. With the emotion of both curiosity and admiration, 10 undergraduate students designating the Science Faculty, U of Tokyo, paid a visit to these 2 celebrated universities this year -Berkeley for 5 days and Stanford for the rest- intending to appreciate the greatness of the two colleges.
7th National University of Singapore (NUS) & Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
For the ESSVAP2010, 11 science students visited National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.
Singapore is a smallest country in Southeast Asia, but with as many as 4.7 million people on small islands. The government makes every effort to invite great researchers from all over the world and places great importance on education. And Singapore is a nation regarded as very clean and safe like Japan.