Osaka University
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The University of Osaka (大阪 大学Osaka Japanese daigaku ), short HanDai (阪 大) is one of the most respected Japanese national universities.
The eleven faculties spread over several locations in the north of Osaka Prefecture. The student population is 23.561 ( 15,562 undergraduates and 7,999 in the master's and doctoral course as of March 2014).
Locations
The university has three campuses. The campus Suita (34 ° 49 '9 "N, 135 ° 31' 36 " O34.819158711111135.52670001944Koordinaten: 34 ° 49 '9 "N, 135 ° 31' 36" E ) is located near the former site of the World Expo 1970. Suita on campus are among others the science and engineering faculties and the University Hospital.
The campus Toyonaka (34 ° 48 ' 16 "N, 135 ° 27' 19" O34.804307135.455225 ) is smaller and is located a few kilometers away. There are, inter alia, to the Faculties of Law and Economics.
The campus Mino (34 ° 51 ' 12 " N, 135 ° 31 ' 0" O34.853397135.516528 ) is the campus of the former Foreign Studies University Osaka (大阪 外国语 大学, Ōsaka gaikokugo daigaku, founded in 1921 ) that the Faculty of October 2007 abroad Sciences was.
History
A spiritual origin of the University is the private school Kaitokudō (懐 徳 堂), which was founded in 1724. During the Edo period, the Kaitokudō served as a school for the people of Osaka and was closed in 1869. 1916, the School of Kaitokudō Memorial Foundation ( Kaitokudō Kinenkai ) was rebuilt. On March 14, 1945 by the Osaka air raid in the Pacific War, the school lost its school buildings; the war survived only their books, which were donated in 1949 to the University of Osaka. Today the Kaitokudō Memorial Foundation is located at the Faculty of Humanities.
Of other origin is the private school Tekijuku (适 塾), which has been prepared by medical professionals Kōan Ogata (绪 方 洪 庵) founded in 1838. The school was closed in 1869; the teachers and apprentices moved to the new public medical school. She received the 1919 University status. In 1931, the University then the Imperial University of Osaka (大阪 帝国 大学Osaka teikoku daigaku ), the eighth of nine ultimately imperial empire universities. She had the first two faculties: medicine and natural sciences. The first campus was on the island of Nakanoshima in the city center of Osaka ( 34 ° 41 ' 31 " N, 135 ° 29' 28" O34.692042135.491028 ). The campus was used until 1990.
1933, the former Technical University of Osaka was (大阪 工业 大学, Ōsaka Kōgyō daigaku, founded in 1896 ) for the Faculty of Engineering Science (34 ° 41 ' 58 "N, 135 ° 31' 47" O34.699389135.529703. This campus was used until 1970 ).
1947, the Imperial University was renamed University of Osaka. In 1949 it was with the high school Osaka (大阪 高等学校), Upper School Naniwa (浪 速 高等学校; Toyonaka campus today is her former location ) (大阪 薬 学 専 门 学校) merged and pharmaceutical specialist school for new Ōsaka University of Osaka.
In Germany, the Osaka University cooperates amongst others with the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the University of Bielefeld
Known institutions and researchers
The university is well known for her immunology research. There teaches Shizuo Akira, who is considered AROUND THE WORLD most - cited researchers. Worldwide also viewed the robot research is to, inter alia, by Hiroshi Ishiguro ( known by his robotic doppelganger ) and Minoru Asada (co-founder of the RoboCup ) is represented.
Faculties
- Faculty of Humanities
- Department of Anthropology, Education and Psychology (English School of Human Sciences)
- Faculty of Foreign Studies (English School of Foreign Studies )
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of Human Medicine
- Faculty of Dentistry
- Faculty of Pharmacy
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Basic Technology (English School of Engineering Science)