Utsunomiya University Explained

is a national university in Japan. The main campus is located in Miné-machi, and the engineering campus at Yōtō, in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture.

History

Utsunomiya University was established in 1949 by integrating three national colleges:, and .

The university at first had two faculties: Faculty of Agriculture (in Mine Campus) and Faculty of Liberal Arts (in Takaragi Campus).

1955: The Faculty of Liberal Arts was removed to Mine Campus.
1964: was merged with the university to constitute Faculty of Engineering (in Yoto Campus).
1966: The Faculty of Liberal Arts was renamed Faculty of Education.
1994: The Faculty of International Studies was added.

Faculty of International Studies
- Department of International Social Studies
- Department of International Cultural Studies
Faculty of Education
- School Teachers' Training Course
- Lifelong Education Course
- Environmental Education Course
Faculty of Engineering (in Yoto Campus)
- Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering
- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Department of Applied Chemistry
- Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering
- Department of Information Science
- Department of Optical Engineering^[3]
Faculty of Agriculture
- Department of Bioproductive Science
- Department of Environmental Engineering
- Department of Agricultural Economics
- Department of Forest Sciences

Graduate School of International Studies (Master's/Doctoral)
Graduate School of Education (Master's courses only)
Graduate School of Engineering (Master's/Doctoral)
Graduate School of Agriculture (Master's/Doctoral)
- The doctoral courses belong to the Joint Graduate School of Agriculture by Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Ibaraki University and Utsunomiya University.