Shizuoka University

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Shizuoka University 静岡大学; Shizuoka Daigaku'


Established	1949
Type	National
Location	Shizuoka & Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan
Campus	Urban
Website	http://www.shizuoka.ac.jp/

Shizuoka University (静岡大学; Shizuoka Daigaku, abbreviated to 静大 Shizudai) is a national university in Shizuoka, Japan.

The university consists of six faculties; Humanities and Social Sciences, Education, Informatics, Science, Engineering and Agriculture. It consists of two main campuses, in Shizuoka and Hamamatsu city(Engineering and Informatics faculties).

[edit] History

The university was founded on May 31, 1949 as an incorporation of several local educational institutions: Shizuoka High School, Shizuoka Teacher Training Institutes I & II, a Young Teacher Training Institute, and Hamamatsu College of Technology. At this initial stage, only the Education and Engineering faculties existed.

In 1951, the Shizuoka Prefectural Agricultural College was amalgamated into the fold, resulting in the creation of a new Agriculture faculty. 1965 brought on a structural rearrangement, combining several smaller schools within other faculties to initiate separate Science and Humanities faculties. With the coming of the digital age in 1995, an Informatics Faculty was added.

In 2006, the university is conducting research once more on its internal structure and is looking at making large changes including; reorganisation of humanities and education faculties and an increase of student places in legal graduate school.