Kitakyushu Municipal University

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The main building on the Kitakata campus, built in 1995

The City University of Kitakyūshū ( Japanese 北九州 市立 大学 , Kitakyūshū shiritsu daigaku , short: Kitakyūdai ( 北 九大 )) is a city university in Japan . The main campus is in Kitakata, Kokuraminami-ku, Kitakyūshū in Fukuoka Prefecture .

history

The university was founded in 1946 as the Kokura School of Foreign Studies ( 小 倉 外事 専 門 学校 , Kokura gaiji semmon gakkō ). The former city council of Kokura founded the foreign language school to help rebuild the city, as the city then had a large military base of the United States Army .

1950 this became the foreign language college Kitakyūshū ( 北九州 外国語 大学 , Kitakyūshū gaikokugo daigaku ). In 1953 the Faculty of Business Studies was founded; at the same time it was renamed University Kitakyūshū ( 北九州 大学 , Kitakyūshū daigaku ). In 1963, the former city of Kokura was merged to form the new city of Kitakyushu; In 2001 the university was finally renamed to its current name.

For a long time it was a humanities and social sciences university, only in 2001 the Faculty of International Environmental and Engineering Sciences ( 国際 環境 工 学部 ) was founded in the new Hibikino campus.

Faculties

Hibikino campus

See also

Web links

Footnotes

  1. Kitakyushu referred to the north of the island of Kyushu