Nagoya City University Explained

Nagoya City University should not be confused with Nagoya University.

Nagoya City University
Motto:None
Established:Founded 1884,
Chartered 1950
Type:Public
Head Label:President
Head:Kenjiro Kohri[1]
City:Nagoya, Aichi
Country:Japan
Undergrad:3126
Postgrad:720
Faculty:531 full-time
Campus:Urban

, abbreviated to, is a public university in Japan. The main campus (Kawasumi) is located in Mizuho-ku, Nagoya City. Other three campuses (Yamanohata, Tanabe-dori and Kita Chikusa) are also located in the city.

History

Nagoya City University (NCU) was established in 1950 by merging two municipal universities: and . So NCU originally had two faculties: Medical School and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

NCU has added divisions and graduate schools as follows:

(by reorganizing and merging College of General Education, Nagoya Municipal Women's College [founded in 1947] and Nagoya City College of Child Education [founded in 1946])

Below are the histories of two preceding colleges of NCU:

Nagoya City Women's Medical CollegeNCWMC was founded in 1943, during World War II, to meet the growing need of doctors (the college's original name in Japanese was, which was renamed in 1944.). In 1947, after the war, the college became a university (daigaku) under Japan's older education system. In 1950 NCWMC was merged into NCU and became Medical School (a coeducational school). The old campus of NCWMC is NCU Tanabe-dori Campus today.
Nagoya Pharmaceutical CollegeThe origin of NPC was founded in 1884 as .[2] This was a private school run by Nagoya Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Nakakita Co., Ltd. today). In 1890 the school was renamed Aichi School of Pharmacy . The school was abolished in 1921, because it could not afford to meet the new requirement of Japanese pharmacist test (The requirement was that the examinees should be the graduates of 3-year pharmaceutical schools; Aichi School of Pharmacy had only a 2.5-year course.).

The alumni revived the school in 1931 as Aichi Higher School of Pharmacy, which had a 3-year course. In 1935 the school developed into . During World War II, shortage of fuel gas struck the college, and in 1946 the college was municipalized by Nagoya City and became coeducational. In 1949 the college was reorganized into new, under Japanese new educational system. In 1950 NPC was merged into NCU to constitute the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. The old campus of NPC is Takinomizu Park today (located in Midori-ku, Nagoya).

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External links

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Greetings from the President | About Us | Nagoya City University.
  2. The history is based on Nagoya City University (Oct. 2001): ("50-year History of Nagoya City University"). See also: Web site: NCU: Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences: History. 2012-12-02. .

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