It had four departments to begin with--political science, law, English and physical science. Four years later, the physics department was dropped and departments were added in English political science and English law, indicating something of the reverence in which Okuma held the West.
初創校時只有四個系﹘﹘政治、法律、物理及英文；四年後物理系取消，反倒增設英國政治系及英國法律系，更可以窺見大隈重信心儀歐美的程度。