Sapporo City University (札幌市立大学, Sapporo shiritsu daigaku) is a public university with campuses in Chuo-ku and Minami-ku, Sapporo, Japan. The predecessor of the school named the Sapporo School of the Arts, was established in 1991, and it was chartered as a university in 2006 when it merged with a nursing school.^[1]