岡山大学 | |
 Okayama University Library (Tsushima Campus) | |
| Motto | "Creating and fostering higher knowledge and wisdom" |
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| Type | Public (National) |
| Established | Founded 1870 Chartered 1922 |
| President | Hirofumi Makino M.D. |
Academic staff | 1,312 full-time （May 2021）[1] |
Administrative staff | 1,270（May 2021）[1] |
| Students | 13,024（May 2021）[1] |
| Undergraduates | 10,084（May 2021）[1] |
| Postgraduates | 2,970（May 2021）[1] |
| 1,237[a]（May 2021） | |
| Location | , , |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Blue and red ocher |
| Website | www.okayama-u.ac.jp |
Okayama University (岡山大学, Okayama Daigaku) is a national university in Japan. The main campus is located in Tsushima-Naka, Okayama, Okayama Prefecture.
The school was founded in 1870 and it was established as a university in 1949.
Okayama University was originally founded as the Medical Training Place (医学館, Igakkan) in 1870 by Okayama-Han. After the abolition of the han system, it became the Okayama Prefectural Medical School (岡山県医学校) in 1880. In 1888 it was merged into a national school, the Third Higher Middle School (第三高等中学校, Daisan kōtō chūgakkō)[2] to constitute the Medical Faculty. The Medical Faculty became an independent school in 1901 and was renamed Okayama Medical Speciality School (岡山医学専門学校, Okayama igaku semmon gakkō),[3] a four-year medical school for men ages 17–21 or above. In 1922, the school was chartered as Okayama Medical College (岡山医科大学, Okayama ika daigaku), a four-year medical college for men ages 19–23 or above.
In 1949, after World War II, the college was merged with other national and public colleges in Okayama Prefecture to establish Okayama University, under Japan's new education system. The predecessors of the university were Okayama Medical College, the Sixth Higher School (第六高等学校, Dairoku kōtō gakkō, established in 1900), Okayama Normal School (岡山師範学校, Okayama shihan gakkō, founded in 1874), Okayama Youth's Normal School (岡山青年師範学校, Okayama seinen shihan gakkō, founded in 1922) and Okayama (Prefectural) Agricultural College (岡山農業専門学校, Okayama nōgyō semmon gakkō, established in 1946).
The new campus (Tsushima Campus) was the former camp of the Imperial Japanese Army (the 17th Division). After occupation army left the camp in 1947, the students of the Sixth Higher School (whose buildings were burnt in the war) guarded the camp, residing in the former military barracks. Later, the camp became their campus. The faculties of Okayama University, except the Medical School, were gradually relocated to Tsushima Campus.
The university at first had five faculties: Law and Letters, Education, Science, Agriculture and Medicine. The latter history of the university is as follows:
In 1949, Okayama University set up the department of law, economics and literature at the same time as the university was founded. In those days, this was the only faculty of law in the region of Chugoku and Shikoku. Later in 1980, Okayama University reorganized the department and separated the faculty of law which became the department of law today. Then, in 2004, Okayama University reorganized again when the law graduate course was established.
| University rankings | |
|---|---|
| Global – Overall | |
| ARWU World[4] | 401-500 (2021) |
| QS World[5] | 581-590 (2022) |
| THE World[6] | 1001-1200 (2022) |
| USNWR Global[7] | 668 (2021) |
| Regional – Overall | |
| QS Asia[8] | 189 (2022) |
| THE Asia[9] | 201-250 (2020) |
| USNWR Asia[10] | 101 (2020) |
Students who take this course work in administration, including management, organization, and strategy, and in accounting and financing, Students come to understand and develop insights into actual company operations. This course has students who want to be a certified public accountant or a licensed tax accountant.
Environmental science and technology has four departments: Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, Environmental and Civil Engineering, Environmental Management Engineering, and Environmental Chemistry and Materials.
The environmental science and technology faculty began in 1995.
This is cross-faculty program designed to help students create their own integrated program matching individual career and academic interests. Students can take classes from other faculties which they are interested in and original classes in this course, so students can decide their major after thinking through many experiences.
Each campus is in the central part of Okayama-city, except the Misasa Campus
Tsushima Campus has an Administrative Center at 1-1, Tsushima-Naka, 1-chome, Kita-Ku, Okayama/1-1, Tsushima-Naka, 2-chome, Kita-Ku, Okayama/1-1, Tsushima-Naka, 3-chome, Kita-Ku, Okayama/1-62, Tsushima-Kuwanokicho, Kita-Ku, Okayama
5-1, Shikata-cho, 2-chome, Kita-Ku, Okayama
827, Yamada, Misasa, Tottori Prefecture
| Shimano National[11] | Selectivity | A2 |
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