Ryūkoku University

Ryūkoku University
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 main building on the Ōmiya campus, built in 1879

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
Coordinates: 34 ° 57 ′ 51.4 " N , 135 ° 46 ′ 2.1" O
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- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Business Administration
- Department of the short college (2 years)