Kinki University

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Kinki University
founding 1925/1949
Sponsorship Private
place Higashiōsaka , Osaka Prefecture
country Japan
management Yoshihiko Hosoi
Students 31,877 (May 2009)
Employee 4,994 (May 2009)
Website www.kindai.ac.jp
The west gate on the main campus
The university hospital

The Kinki University ( Japanese 近畿 大学 , Kinki daigaku , short: Kindai ) is a private university in Japan . The main campus is located in Higashiōsaka in Osaka Prefecture .

The name Kinki comes from the region name, which means "near the capital ".

history

The university was founded in 1925 as the Osaka Technical School ( 大阪 専 門 学校 , Ōsaka semmon gakkō ) by the corporation of Nihon University . In 1939 the technical school set up its independent body. In 1943, Osaka University of Natural Sciences and Engineering ( 大阪 理工科 大学 , Ōsaka rikōka daigaku ) was founded by the corporation. During the Pacific War , college and college had a hard time; Sekō Kōichi ( 世 耕 弘 一 , 1893-1965), a professor at Nihon University and a member of the Shūgiins , saved the schools. In 1948 the university founded the Fisheries Institute, which has recently been known for research into the "full" rearing of tuna .

In 1949 the college was merged with the Osaka technical college to form Kinki University . It initially had two faculties: science and engineering, and business studies. She founded more faculties: Law (1950), Pharmacy (1954), Agricultural Science (1958), Engineering (1959 in Hiroshima Prefecture ), Kyushu Engineering (1966 in Fukuoka Prefecture ), Medicine (1974), Humanities and Arts (1989), Bio, natural and engineering sciences (1993, Japanese 生物 理工 学部 ) etc.

In 1961 she set up a research reactor (UTR-KINKI, power: today 1 watt). Along with the state universities of Tokyo and Kyoto , it is one of the three Japanese universities that have research reactors in operation.

Faculties

See also

Web links

Commons : Kinki University  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.kindai.ac.jp/english/about/message/
  2. a b 近畿 大学 に つ い て: デ ー タ 集 ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (About Kinki University: Numbers), Japanese: Undergraduate 30,685, Post-Graduate 1,192, Academic Staff (full-time) 2,256, Other Staff (full-time) 2,738. Retrieved January 30, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kindai.ac.jp
  3. Introduction of Kinki University Atomic Energy Research Institute ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in Japanese and English. Retrieved January 30, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kuaeri.ned.kindai.ac.jp