Ryūkoku University
Ryūkoku University | |
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founding | 1639/1922 |
Sponsorship | Private |
place | Fushimi-ku , Kyoto |
country | Japan |
management | Takashi Irisawa |
Students | 19,389 (May 2008) |
Employee | 1,470 |
Website | www.ryukoku.ac.jp |
The Ryūkoku University ( Japanese 龍谷 大学 , Ryūkoku daigaku ) is a Japanese private university, which is supported by the Buddhist Jōdo Shinshū School Honganji-ha . The main campus is located in Fukakusa-Tsukamotochō, Fushimi-ku , Kyōto in Kyoto Prefecture .
history
The university was founded in 1639 as Gakuryō ( 学 寮 , literally: "student dormitory") from Nishi Hongan-ji Temple . The school was named in 1655 in Gakurin ( 学 林 , German "priest school"), then in 1876 in Daikyōkō ( 大 教 校 , literally: "big school"). In 1879 the new school buildings were built on today's heutigenmiya campus.
It developed in 1905 into a technical school, the Bukkyō Daigaku ( 仏 教 大学 , German "Buddhist college"; not today's Bukkyō University ) was called. In 1922 it received university status and was renamed Ryūkoku University. The school name Ryūkoku (dt. "Dragon Valley ") comes from the mountain name ( sangō ) of Nishi Hongan-ji.
In 1960 she opened the Fukakusa campus (now the main campus), which was the former military base of the United States Army . It was first a humanities university and founded more faculties in the new campus: Economics (1961), Business Administration (1966), and Law (1968). In 1989 she founded her third campus in Ōtsu in Shiga Prefecture , and added there should faculties: science and engineering (1989), Social Sciences (1989), and International Cultural Studies (1996).
Faculties
- Fukakusa campus (in Fushimi-ku, Kyōto, 34 ° 57 ′ 51.4 " N , 135 ° 46 ′ 2.1" E ):
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Business Administration
- Department of the short college (2 years)
- Ōmiya campus (in Shimogyō-ku , Kyōto, 34 ° 59 ′ 23.4 ″ N , 135 ° 44 ′ 59.9 ″ E ):
- Faculty of Humanities
- Seta Campus (in Ōtsu, Shiga, 34 ° 57 ′ 52.3 ″ N , 135 ° 56 ′ 22.4 ″ E ):
- Faculty of Natural and Engineering Sciences
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Faculty of International Cultural Studies
See also
Web links
- Official website - Japanese and English
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.ryukoku.ac.jp/english2/about/e_greeting.html
- ↑ a b http://www.ryukoku.ac.jp/english2/about/facts.html Facts and Figures , in English.