, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, is a national university

National university

A national university is generally a university created or run by a government, but which at the same time operates autonomously without direct oversight or control by the state. Some national universities are closely associated with national cultural or political aspirations...

 located in Ibaraki Prefecture

Ibaraki Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan, located in the Kantō region on the main island of Honshu. The capital is Mito.-History:Ibaraki Prefecture was previously known as Hitachi Province...

, with campuses in the cities of Mito

Mito, Ibaraki

is the capital of Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan and has a central location, moderately offset towards the coast in that prefecture. As of 2005, the city has an estimated population of 263,748 and a total area is 217.45 km², giving a population density of 1,212.91 persons per km²...

, Ami

Ami, Ibaraki

is a town located in Inashiki District, Ibaraki, Japan.As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 47,594 and a density of 732.55 persons per km². The total area is 64.97 km². Ami has a sister city relationship with Superior, Wisconsin, United States. Its current mayor is Kōji...

 and Hitachi

Hitachi, Ibaraki

is a city located on the Pacific Ocean in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Its name could be directly translated as "sunrise", but probably more appropriately adapted to "prosperous wealth" .-Demographics:...

. It was established on May 31, 1949, integrating these prewar institutions: Mito High School (Mito Koto-Gakko), Ibaraki Normal School (Ibaraki Shihan-Gakko), Ibaraki Juvenile Normal School (Ibaraki Seinen Shihan-Gakko), and Taga Technical Specialists' College (Taga Kogyo Senmon-Gakko). The initial colleges were the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Education, and the College of Engineering.

Undergraduate and Graduate Schools

Undergraduate Courses

• College of Humanities
  Humanities
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   (at Mito Campus)
• College of Education
  Education
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   (at Mito Campus)
• College of Sciences (at Mito Campus)
• College of Engineering
  Engineering
  Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
  
   (at Hitachi Campus)
• College of Agriculture
  Agriculture
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   (at Ami Campus)

Graduate Courses

• Graduate School of Humanities
• Graduate School of Education
• Graduate School of Science and Engineering
  Engineering
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• Graduate School of Agriculture
  Agriculture
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Research Institutes

• Institute of Regional Studies
• Institute of Izura Art Culture
• Institute of Applied Beam Sciences

Timeline

• 1952, April - Ibaraki Prefectural University of Agriculture (Noka Daigaku) was placed under national management and established as the College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University
• 1955, June - Establishment of Izura Institute of Arts and Culture
• 1955, July - Establishment of the Junior College of Technology
• 1967, June - Establishment of the College of Humanities, the College of Science, and the College of Liberal Arts as a result of the reorganization of the College of Arts and Sciences
• 1968, April - Establishment of the Graduate School of Engineering
• 1969, January - Establishment of the Institute of General Regional Studies*
• 1970, April - Establishment of the Graduate School of Agriculture
• 1973, April - Opening of the University Health Center
• 1979, April - Establishment of the Graduate School of Science
• 1985, April - Became a constitutive university for the United Graduate School of Agricultural Science (Doctoral program) in Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
• 1985, July - Establishment of the Information Processing Center*
• 1988, April - Establishment of the Graduate School of Education
• 1989, May - Establishment of the Center for Cooperative Research and Development
• 1991, April - Establishment of the Graduate School of Humanities, and the Center for Instrumental Analysis
• 1992, April - Establishment of the Center for Education and Research in Lifelong Learning
• 1993, March - Abolition of the Junior College of Technology
• 1993, April - Establishment of the Graduate School of Engineering (Doctoral program)
• 1995, April - Merger of the Graduate School of Engineering and the Graduate School of Science into the Graduate School of Science and Engineering
• 1996, March - Abolition of the College of Liberal Arts
• 1996, April - Establishment of Center for Research and Development in University Education*
• 1997, April - Establishment of Center for Water Environmental Studies
• 1998, April - Reorganization of Information Processing Center
• 1999, April - Opening of Gene Research Center

* indicates facilities established according to the university's internal decisions.

External links

• Ibaraki University Official Homepage