Based on the founding spirit, the university has devoted itself to education and research in veterinary and animal science, but with the partial revision of the Veterinary Law, the first year of extension of the veterinary education period was launched in April 1978. did. On the other hand, the purpose of training creative researchers and professional engineers to comprehensively grasp and investigate the mutual relationship between maintaining human health and environmental factors that hinder it at the request of society accompanying economic growth. The Faculty of Environmental Health was established in. In addition, with the establishment of the Faculty of Environmental Health, the university name was changed to "Azabu University" from April 1980.
Over 110 years since its founding, it has undergone many changes today, and today it has become a distinctive university consisting of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, the Faculty of Environmental Health, and the newly established "Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences" and a graduate school in 2008.  In May 1983, a part of the School Education Law was revised, and the period of study for veterinary education was set to 6 years, and integrated education for 6 years undergraduate was conducted from the enrollment in April 1984.