Toyama University

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Toyama University
founding 1949/2005
Sponsorship state
place Toyama , Toyama Prefecture
country Japan
management Saito Shigeru
Students 9,299 (May 2012)
Employee 2,191 (May 2012)
Website www.u-toyama.ac.jp
Sugitani Campus (Medicine and Pharmacy)
Takaoka Campus (Art and Design)

The University of Toyama ( Jap. 富山大学 , Toyama daigaku , Eng. University of Toyama ) is a state university in Japan . The main campus is located in Gofuku, Toyama in Toyama Prefecture .

history

The university was founded in 2005 through the merger of the three state universities. The three were:

  • the (older) University of Toyama (English Toyama University , founded 1949),
  • Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University ( 富山 医科 薬 科 大学 , Toyama ika yakka daigaku , founded in 1975), and
  • the short university Takaoka ( 高 高 短期 大学 , Takaoka tanki daigaku , English Takaoka National College , founded 1983).

One of the origins of the older Toyama University was the private Kyōritsu School of Pharmacy ( 共 立 薬 学校 , Kyōritsu yaku gakkō ), which was founded in 1893 with a donation from the City of Toyama and the pharmaceutical companies. It became a municipal school in 1897 and in 1909 developed into the Toyama Prefectural Pharmaceutical Technical School ( 富山 県 立 薬 学 専 門 学校 , Toyama-kenritsu yakugaku semmon gakkō ), then in 1920 to the Toyama State Pharmaceutical Technical School.

In 1949, the older Toyama University was opened, and the Pharmaceutical College was merged with four other state schools (high school, technical college, normal school, and normal youth school) to form the university. In 1974 she founded the Research Institute for Traditional Japanese and Chinese Pharmacy ( 和 漢 薬 研究所 , Wa Kan yaku kenkyūjo ), the first state research institute for Kampo medicine. In 1975, the pharmaceutical faculty was transferred to the newly established Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University. In 2005, the Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University was merged to form the (new) Toyama University (Sugitani campus).

Short University of Takaoka

In the city of Takaoka was one of the predecessors of the (older) Toyama University - the Takaoka Technical Center ( 高 岡 工業 専 門 学校 , Takaoka kōgyō semmon gakkō ). It was founded in 1924 as the Takaoka Higher Commercial School ( 高 岡 高等 商業 学校 , Takaoka kōtō shōgyō gakkō ), and in 1944 during the Pacific War it was changed to a technical college. In 1949 it became the technical faculty of Toyama University (older), and the faculty was in Takaoka until 1985. The faculty wanted to move to the main Gofuku campus because the then Takaoka (Nakagawa) campus was old and small. The city council of Takaoka turned against the move, so in 1983 instead of the technical faculty, a new state university was founded.

The Takaoka University was opened in the new Takaoka (Futagami) campus. She took two-year courses in industrial design and computer science because Takaoka is a city of handicrafts. In 1998 she founded the two-year advanced course; Graduates of the advanced course were able to obtain the bachelor's degree ( NIAD-UE awarded it). Since 2005 the location of the short university has been the Takaoka campus of Toyama University.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.u-toyama.ac.jp/en/outline/president.html
  2. ↑ Outline of the University of Toyama - Student Enrollment , PDF in Japanese and English: Undergraduate 8,217, Post-Graduate 1,082. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  3. ^ Outline of the University of Toyama - Number of Personnel by Category , PDF in Japanese and English, accessed June 3, 2013.
  4. ^ A b Outline of the University of Toyama - History , PDF in Japanese and English, accessed June 3, 2013.