Osaka University
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| Motto | 地域に生き世界に伸びる (Live Locally, Grow Globally) |
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| Established | Founded Nov. 1869, Chartered Nov.22, 1919[1] Apr. 28, 1936[2] |
| Type | Public (National) |
| Endowment | US$2.3 billion (JP¥264.3 billion) |
| Faculty | 2,546 |
| Staff | 4,825 |
| Students | 19,942 |
| Undergraduates | 12,018 |
| Postgraduates | 7,924 |
| Doctoral students | 7,570 |
| Professional students | 292 |
| Location | Suita, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan |
| Campus | Suburban / Urban, 357 acres (1.4 km²) |
| Athletics | 55 varsity teams |
| Colors | Sky blue |
| Mascot | Macchi the Crocodile (unofficial) |
| Fight song | Yūyūshiku susumen |
| Affiliations | APRU, EUIJ |
| Website | www.osaka-u.ac.jp |
Osaka University (大阪大学 Ōsaka daigaku?), or Handai (阪大?) is a national coeducational research university in Suita, Osaka, Japan. It is the sixth-oldest university, as the Prefectural Osaka Medical College, in Japan.
Home to many illustrious alumni like CEOs, lawyers, doctors, famous scientists, elite bureaucrats, even a Nobel laureate, as well as dynamic research centres, it is considered one of the most prestigious and elite universities in Japan and Asia. It has been consistently top-ranked in world university rankings like Shanghai Jiaotong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities and The Times Higher Education Supplement.
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[edit] History
Osaka University traces its beginnings to Osaka Prefecture Medical School founded in 1869 in downtown Osaka, and then, it transformed into the Prefectural Osaka Medical College with a university status in 1919. In 1931, the medical college, with a faculty of science, became a part of Osaka Imperial University, which was established as the sixth Imperial University in Japan. Osaka Technical College was absorbed as the College of Engineering in 1933. The university was renamed as Osaka University in 1947.
In 1949, merging Naniwa Higher School and Osaka Higher School, Osaka University started its postwar career with five faculties: Science, Medicine, Engineering, Letters and Law. The academic origins of the university traces back to Kaitokudo (懐徳堂 Kaitokudō?), a Edo-period school for local citizens, founded in 1724, and Tekijuku (適塾?), a school of Rangaku for samurais, founded by Koan Ogata in 1838. It is believed that the spirit of the university's humanities faculties stemmed from Kaitokudo, while that of the science faculties, including medicine, came from Tekijuku.
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[edit] Faculty
[edit] Students
[edit] Sports, clubs, and traditions
[edit] List of Undergraduate Programmes
- School of Letters
- School of Human Sciences
- School of Law
- School of Economics
- School of Science
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Dentistry
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- School of Engineering
- School of Engineering Science
[edit] List of alumni
- Manga author Osamu Tezuka (School of Medicine)
- Finance Minister of Japan, Economist Heizo Takenaka (Graduate School of Economics)
- Sony founder Akio Morita (School of Science)
- Nobel Prize in Physics Hideki Yukawa (Graduate School of Science)
- Physicist Hantaro Nagaoka (First President of Osaka University)
- Koushun Takami, the author of the novel Battle Royale.
[edit] Newspaper
Handai Walker(in Japanese)
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[edit] Notes
| National Seven Universities |
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| Hokkaido • Kyoto • Kyushu • Nagoya • Osaka • Tohoku • Tokyo |
| EU Institute in Japan |
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| Tokyo Consortium: Hitotsubashi • ICU • TUFS • Tsuda Kansai (Consortium): Kobe • Kwansei Gakuin • Osaka |
