Hyogo University

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Hyogo University
兵庫大学
Established: Founded 1919
Chartered 1995
Type: Private
President: Hideko Ohmura
Faculty: 90 full-time[1]
Location: Kakogawa, Hyōgo, Japan
Campus: Suburb
Website: www.hyogo-dai.ac.jp/
Not to be confused with University of Hyogo.

Hyogo University (兵庫大学 Hyōgo daigaku?) is a private university in Japan. Its campus is located in Shinzaike, Hiraoka-cho, Kakogawa City, Hyōgo Prefecture. The university is one of the seven schools run by Mutsumi Gakuen (睦学園?), a school foundation with a Buddhist background (Nishi Hongwanji denomination).

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[edit] History

Mutsumi Gakuen
  • 1919: Taishi Sunday School was started in memory of the 1300th anniversary of Shotoku Taishi's death.
  • 1923: Suma Taishi Hall was opened in Suma-ku, Kobe, to which the Training Course of Sewing (a girls' school) was attached.
  • 1937: Suma Taishi Hall Foundation was incorporated. The foundation established Suma Mutsumi Girls' Vocational School (Sumanoura Girls' High School today).
  • 1951: The school foundation was renamed Mutsumi Gakuen.
  • 1955: The school foundation established Mutsumi Gakuen Women's Junior College.
  • 1966: The junior college was renamed Hyogo Women's Junior College, moving from Suma-ku, Kobe to Kakogawa.
Hyogo University
  • 1995: Mutsumi Gakuen established Hyogo University.
    • with one faculty: Faculty of Economics and Information Science
  • 1998: The junior college was reorganized into the Junior College Department of Hyogo University.
  • 1999: Graduate School of Economics and Information Science was established.
  • 2001: The Faculty of Health Science was added.
    • with Departments of Nutrition Management and Health System Management
  • 2006: The Department of Nursing was added.

[edit] Faculties (Undergraduate Schools)

  • Faculty of Economics and Information Science
  • Faculty of Health Science
    • Department of Nutrition Management
    • Department of Health System Management
    • Department of Nursing
  • Faculty of Welfare Society (to be opened in April 2008)

[edit] Graduate Schools

  • Graduate School of Economics and Information Science (Master's courses only)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Hyogo University: Profiles of the faculty members (in Japanese). The page includes the Junior College Department (faculty: 25).. Retrieved on 2008-01-21.

[edit] External links

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