Kitakyushu Municipal University
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
- Kitakata campus (in Kokuraminami-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, 33 ° 50 ′ 38.3 ″ N , 130 ° 52 ′ 42 ″ E, ):
- Faculty of Foreign Studies
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Humanities
- Faculty of Law
- Hibikino Campus (in Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, 33 ° 53 ′ 23.1 ″ N , 130 ° 42 ′ 49.3 ″ E ):
- Faculty of International Environmental and Engineering Sciences
See also
Web links
- Official website - Japanese and English