University of Kochi explained

University of Kochi
Native Name:	高知県立大学
Established:	1949
Type:	Public
President:	Hiroko Minami^[1]
City:	Kōchi
State:	Kōchi
Website:	Official website

is a public university in Kōchi, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1944, and it was chartered as a university in 1949.^[2] In April 2011, the school changed its name from and became coeducational.^[3]

Organization

The University of Kochi comprises four undergraduate faculties and two graduate schools.^[4]

Faculties

• Faculty of Cultural Studies
• Faculty of Nursing
• Faculty of Social Welfare
• Faculty of Nutrition

Graduate schools

• Graduate School of Nursing
• Graduate School of Human Life Sciences

College of Child Development

The opened in April 1975, but the school was founded in 1948 as . It was affiliated with Kochi Women's University, but was located on a separate campus. It became coeducational in 1992. It closed in 1998.^[5]

External links

• Official website
• Official website

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Notes and References

1. Web site: A message from the President - 高知県立大学ホームページ.
2. Web site: Kochi Women's University . Japan Student Services Organization . 2008-10-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080420152344/http://www.jasso.go.jp/cgi-bin/user/univ_search_result.cgi?&univid=1745&prefecturename=Kochi . April 20, 2008 .
3. Web site: Overview of University of Kochi - 高知県立大学ホームページ.
4. Web site: Faculty/Department Configuration - 高知県立大学ホームページ.
5. 2011 全国短期大学高等専門学校一覧 p.254. (Japanese)