Established 1889 Phone +81 52-798-0180 | Total enrollment 5,426 (1 May 2014) Founded 1949 | |
Type Private women's university Website www.kinjo-u.ac.jp/eng/index.html Address Japan, 〒463-8521 愛知県名古屋市守山区大森2-1723 Similar Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Aichi Shukutoku University, Aichi Gakuin University, Meijo University, Nanzan University | ||
Kinjo Gakuin University (金城学院大学, Kinjō gakuin daigaku) is a private women's university in Moriyama-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1889, and it was chartered as a university 1949.
Kinjo Gakuin University has 14 undergraduate departments and majors covering a wide range of study fields -from human/social science to natural science- and a graduate school in the humanities and in human ecology offering master's and doctoral degrees.
University Milestones
1889 Kinjo Girls' School (a private school) established
1927 Kinjo Girls' Vocational School established
1947 Under educational system reform, Kinjo Gakuen Junior High School established
1948 School renamed
1949 Kinjo Gakuin University (College of English Literature) established
1954 College of English Literature reorganized to Faculty of Literature
1962 College of Home Economics (present-day Human Life and Environment) established
1967 Graduate School of Humanities established
1996 Graduate School of Human Ecology established
1997 College of Contemporary Society and Culture established
2002 College of Human Sciences established
2005 College of Pharmacy established