The University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus is one of the five university campuses and home to the department of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, and a number of advanced research facilities and campus services. It is the campus for all freshmen and sophomores in undergraduate school. Every University of Tokyo student spends at least two years in the Komaba Campus. University of Tokyo is the only university in Japan that has a system of two years of general education before the students choose their majors. In this system, the Komaba Campus is the cornerstone of the general education, and was designated as the “center of excellence” for three new areas of research by the Japanese Ministry of Education and Science.