Gunma University
| Gunma University | |
|---|---|
| founding | 1949 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Maebashi , Gunma Prefecture |
| country | Japan |
| management | Hiroshi Hiratsuka |
| Students | 6,824 (May 2009) |
| Employee | 2,034 (year 2009) |
| Website | [1] |
The Gunma University ( Jap. 群馬大学 , Gunma daigaku / Gumma daigaku , short Gundai ( 群大 )) is a state university in Japan . The main campus is in Aramakimachi, Maebashi in Gunma Prefecture .
history
The university was founded in 1949 through the merger of five state schools:
- the Normal School Gunma ( 群馬師範学校 , Gunma shihan gakko , founded in 1873)
- the normal youth school Gunma ( 群 馬 青年 師範学校 , Gunma his shihan gakkō in Takasaki , founded in 1918),
- Maebashi Medical School ( 前 橋 医科大学 , Maebashi ika daigaku , founded in 1948),
- the Maebashi Medical School ( 前 橋 医学 専 門 学校 , Maebashi igaku semmon gakkō , founded in 1943), and
- the Kiryū technical center ( 桐 生 工業 専 門 学校 , Kiryū kōgyō semmon gakkō in Kiryū , founded in 1915).
The university was opened with three faculties ( Liberal Arts , Medicine and Engineering) in the five locations. A branch of the university (former normal youth school) was located in Takasaki, this was closed in 1951. Since there was no social science faculty at Gunma University, the city council of Takasaki founded its own university in 1952 (see Takasaki University of Economics ).
In 1970 the Aramaki campus reopened and the Faculty of Education (created from Liberal Arts in 1966) moved to the campus. In 1993 the Faculties of Social Sciences and Computer Science were founded. In 2008, the Department of Production Science and Technology (Japanese 生産 シ ス テ ム 工 学科 , Department of Production Science and Technology ) moved to the new Ōta campus.
The history of the predecessors (medical university and technical college):
Maebashi Medical School
The medical school was founded as Maebashi Medical School during the Pacific War in 1943 to train military doctors. After the war (1948) it developed into the Maebashi Medical School. In 1949, the Maebashi Medical College and University of Applied Sciences were attached to Gunma University. In 1966, the Surgical Clinic under Professor Ishihara received a new modern building (with viewing domes in the operating theaters), which was cleared again in 1986 and replaced by another new building. The former campus of Maebashi Medical School is still the seat of the Medical Faculty today.
Kiryū technical center
The technical center Kiryū was founded in 1915 as a high school for dyeing and weaving Kiryū ( 桐 生 高等 染織 学校 , Kiryū kōtō senshoku gakkō ), because Kiryū was then a city of the textile industry. In 1920 the school founded the Department of Applied Chemistry and was renamed the Kiryū Higher Technical School ( 桐 生 高等 工業 学校 , Kiryū kōtō kōgyō gakkō ). It added the departments of mechanical engineering (1929), electrical engineering (1939) and weapons technology (1943). In 1944 it was renamed Technikum Kiryū and the dyeing and weaving departments were closed. However, both were rebuilt after the Pacific War.
The Faculty of Engineering remains in Kiryū with the former main building and the guard built in 1915.
Faculties
- Aramaki campus (in Aramakimachi, Maebashi, 36 ° 25 '48.9 " N , 139 ° 2' 42.4" O ) :
- Faculty of Education
- Faculty of Social Sciences and Computer Science
- Shōwa campus (in Shōwamachi, Maebashi, 36 ° 24 ′ 28.3 ″ N , 139 ° 3 ′ 43.5 ″ E ):
- Faculty of Medicine
- Kiryū Campus (in Kiryū, Gunma Prefecture, 36 ° 25 ′ 24.1 ″ N , 139 ° 20 ′ 54.5 ″ E ):
- Faculty of Engineering
- Ōta campus (in Ōta , Gunma Prefecture, 36 ° 17 ′ 51.7 ″ N , 139 ° 22 ′ 32.3 ″ E ):
- Department of Production Science and Technology (Faculty of Engineering)
See also
Web links
- Official website (Japanese and English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.gunma-u.ac.jp/english/html/aboutus_006.html
- ↑ 学生 の 数 ( 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. (Number of students), in Japanese: Undergraduates 5,294, Graduates 1,530.
- ↑ 職員 の 数 ( 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. (Number of staff), in Japanese: research staff 878, others 1,156.
- ↑ Ernst Kern : Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000, ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , p. 192.
