Nagoya City University
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, abbreviated to , is one of the public universities in Japan
Japan
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. The main campus (Kawasumi) is located in Mizuho-ku
Mizuho-ku, Nagoya
is one of the 16 wards of the city of Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.It includes Mizuho athletics park and Mizuho rugby stadium....

, Nagoya City. Other three campuses (Yamanohata, Tanabe-dori and Kita Chikusa) are also located in the city.

History

Nagoya City University (NCU) was established in 1950 by merging two municipal universities: and . So NCU originally had two faculties: Medical School and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

NCU has added divisions and graduate schools as follows:
  • 1955: College of General Education
  • 1961: Doctoral course for the Division of Medicine
  • 1964: Faculty of Economics
  • 1966: Doctoral course for the Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • 1970: Doctoral course for the Division of Economics
  • 1988: College of Nursing
  • 1996: School of Humanities and Social Sciences / School of Design and Architecture
    (by reorganizing and merging College of General Education, Nagoya Municipal Women's College [founded in 1947] and Nagoya City College of Child Education [founded in 1946])
  • 1999: School of Nursing (by reorganizing College of Nursing)


Below are the histories of two preceding colleges of NCU:

Nagoya City Women's Medical College
NCWMC was founded in 1943, during World War II
World War II
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, to meet the growning need of doctors (the college's original name in Japanese was , which was renamed in 1944.). In 1947, after the war, the college became a university (daigaku) under Japan's older education systems. In 1950 NCWMC was merged into NCU and became Medical School (a coeducational school). The old campus of NCWMC is NCU Tanabe-dori Campus today.

Nagoya Pharmaceutical University
The origin of NPU was founded in 1884 as . This was a private school run by Nagoya Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Nakakita Co., Ltd. today). In 1890 the school was renamed Aichi School of Pharmacy (愛知薬学校). The school was abolished in 1921, because it could not afford to meet the new requirement of Japanese pharmacist test (The requirement was that the examinees should be the graduates of 3-year pharmaceutical schools; Aichi School of Pharmacy had only a 2.5-year course.).

The alumni revived the school in 1931 as Aichi Higher School of Pharmacy (愛知高等薬学校), which had a 3-year course. In 1935 the school developed into . During World War II, shortage of fuel gas struck the college, and in 1946 the college was municipalized by Nagoya City and became coeducational. In 1949 the college was reorganized into Nagoya Pharmaceutical University, under the new educational systems. In 1950 NPU was merged into NCU and became Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. The old campus of NPU is Takinomizu Park today (located in Midori-ku, Nagoya
Midori-ku, Nagoya
is one of the 16 wards of the city of Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.Midori-ku is one of the sixteen wards within Nagoya city and is located to the south east of the city. As of July 1, 2006, it has become the ward with the highest population, surpassing even Nakagawa-ku by a small amount....

).

Graduate Schools

  • Medical Sciences (in Kawasumi Campus)
  • Pharmaceutical Sciences (in Tanabe-dori Campus)
  • Economics (in Yamanohata Campus)
  • Humanities and Social Sciences (in Yamanohata Campus)
  • Design and Architecture (in Kita Chikusa Campus)
  • Nursing (in Kawasumi Campus)
  • Natural Sciences (in Yamanohata Campus)

Undergraduate Schools

  • Medical School (in Kawasumi Campus)
  • Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (in Tanabe-dori Campus)
  • Faculty of Economics (in Yamanohata Campus)
  • School of Humanities and Social Sciences (in Yamanohata Campus)
  • School of Design and Architecture (in Kita Chikusa Campus)
  • School of Nursing (in Kawasumi Campus)

Institutes

  • Library and Information Processing Center
  • University Hospital
  • Institute of Molecular Medicine
  • Center for Experimental Animal Science
  • Advanced Pharmaceutical Sciences Center
  • Institute of Economic Research
  • Institute for Studies in Humanities and Cultures
  • Institute of Natural Sciences

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