Kurume University

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Kurume University
The main building on the Mii campus

Kurume University ( Japanese 久留 米 大学 , Kurume daigaku ) is a private university founded in 1946. It is located in Kurume City in Fukuoka Prefecture , Japan.

It emerged from the Kyūshū medical school established in 1928 ( 九州 医学 専 門 学校 , Kyūshū igaku semmon gakkō ) and initially offered the undergraduate degree in human medicine . The Faculty of Economics was added in 1950 and from 1946 to 1952 it was called the Kurume Medical School ( 久留 米 医科大学 , Kurume ika daigaku ).

Since 1956, she is a graduate school , first for medicine, but other departments have since been established, which is now the medical, health science , literature , economics , trade science , jurisprudence and four graduate schools for comparative cultural studies , psychology cover, trade science and medicine. With the Mii Campus and the Asahi-machi Campus, it has two campuses and also operates the Kurume University Beijing Educational Exchange Center . 14 research institutes are affiliated to the university and it runs two university clinics. With the Kurume Medical Journal , founded in 1954, it publishes its own medical science journal.

About 7000 students are enrolled. The president is the holder of the chair for orthopedic surgery, Kensei Nagata (as of 2017).

The German physician Karlheinz Idelberger received an honorary professorship from this university in 1975 .

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Individual evidence

  1. Kensei Nagata on the Kurume University website
  2. ^ German-Japanese symposium on the website of the German Rectors' Conference