Akita University
| Akita University | |
|---|---|
| founding | 1949 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Akita , Akita Prefecture |
| country | Japan |
| President | Fumio Yamamoto |
| Students | 5,187 (May 2011) |
| Employee | 1,644 (May 2011) |
| Website | www.akita-u.ac.jp |
The Akita University ( Japanese 秋田 大学 , Akita daigaku , short: Shūdai ( 秋 大 )) is a state university in Japan . The main campus is located in Tegata-Gakuen-machi, Akita in Akita Prefecture .
history
The university was founded in 1949 through the merger of the three state schools. The three were:
- the Akita Mountain Technical School ( 秋田 鉱 山 専 門 学校 , Akita kōzan semmon gakkō ),
- the normal school Akita ( 秋田 師範学校 , Akita shihan gakkō , founded 1878) and
- the normal youth school Akita ( 秋田 青年 師範学校 , Akita his shihan gakkō , founded in 1924).
The main part of today's Tegata campus was taken over by the Akita Mountain Technical School. It was founded in 1910 as the first Japanese state mountain technical school, based on the model of the Freiberg Bergakademie .
The first rector was Obana Fuyukichi ( 小花 冬 吉 ; rectorate: 1910–1914). He graduated from the Technical University in 1879 ( 工部 大 学校 , now the University of Tokyo ) and studied at the Bergakademie Freiberg and the Royal School of Mines in London (he returned to Japan in 1883). He adopted the Freiberg curriculum for the newly founded mountain technical school . The third rector Yokobori Jisaburō ( 横 堀 治 三郎 ; rectorate: 1917–1925) also studied in Freiberg. Other professors were also influenced by the rectors and studied in Freiberg. The Mining Museum ( 鉱 業 博物館 ) at Akita University has a collection of the mining models that Prof. Tsuboi bought in Freiberg in 1922.
Akita University opened with two faculties: Liberal Arts and Mining. In 1966 the Faculty of Liberal Arts was renamed the Faculty of Education, and in 1998 the Faculty of Education and Culture. In 1970 the Faculty of Medicine was re-established. The Faculty of Mining was changed in 1998 to the Faculty of Engineering and Resource Science (Japanese 工 学 資源 学部 , English Faculty of Engineering and Resource Science ).
Faculties
- Hondō Campus (in Hondō (Yanagida-aza-Nukazuka), Akita, 39 ° 43 ′ 51.6 ″ N , 140 ° 9 ′ 5 ″ E ):
- Faculty of Medicine
- Tegata Campus (in Tegata-Gakuen-machi, Akita, 39 ° 43 ′ 40.9 ″ N , 140 ° 8 ′ 2.6 ″ E ):
- Faculty of Engineering and Resource Sciences
- Faculty of Education and Culture
See also
Web links
- Official website (Japanese and English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.akita-u.ac.jp/eng/info/in_president.html
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↑ 学生 の 定員 お よ び 現 員 （学部） ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( Number of students [undergraduate]), in Japanese: 4,510. 学生 の 定員 お よ び 現 員 （大 学院） ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Post-graduate student population), Japanese: 677. Retrieved August 6, 2011.
- ↑ 教職員 数 ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Number of staff), Japanese: professors and research assistants 651, others 993. Retrieved August 6, 2011.
- ↑ http://www.eng.akita-u.ac.jp/intro/outline/step.html ( 学部 の 歩 み , “The History of the Faculty”), in Japanese. Retrieved August 6, 2011.
- ↑ http://www.akita-mine.org/index.php?id=13 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( 秋田 鉱 山 専 門 学校 ま も な く 創立 100 周年 4 (Almost 100 years since Akita Mountain School was founded)), in Japanese.
- ↑ http://www.mus.akita-u.ac.jp/exhibits/2f_exhibitsE.html (Exhibits / First Floor, Mining Museum of Akita University), in English.
