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Type
  
Public

Location
  
Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

Website
  
www.kpu.ac.jp/

Total enrollment
  
2,133 (1 May 2014)

Founded
  
1 April 1949

President
  
Go Takeba

Campus
  
Urban

Acceptance rate
  
28.7% (2015)

Phone
  
+81 75-703-5101

Kyoto Prefectural University

Established
  
Founded 1895 Chartered 1949

Address
  
Japan, 〒606-0823 京都府京都市左京区下鴨半木町1−5

Similar
  
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Kyoto Prefectural University (京都府立大学, Kyōto furitsu daigaku), Fudai (府大) or Kyōfudai (京府大) for short, is one of the public universities in Japan. Its campus is located in Nakaragi-cho, Shimogamo, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto.

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History

Kyoto Prefectural University was established in 1949 as Saikyo University (西京大学, Saikyō daigaku) by mingling two prefectural colleges: Kyoto Prefectural Agricultural and Forestry Vocational School (京都府立農林専門学校 Kyōto furitsu nōrin semmon gakkō, founded in 1895) and Kyoto Prefectural Women's Vocational School (京都府立女子専門学校 Kyōto furitsu joshi semmon gakkō, founded in 1927).

Saikyo University had at first two faculties: the Faculty of Letters and Domestic Science (in Katsura Campus) / the Faculty of Agriculture (in Shimogamo Campus). The brief history of the university is as follows:

  • 1951: The Faculty of Women's Junior College was established (in Katsura Campus).
  • 1959: The University was renamed Kyoto Prefectural University.
  • 1962: All the faculties were integrated in Shimogamo Campus (Katsura Campus was abolished).
  • 1970: The Faculty of Letters and Domestic Science was reorganized into two faculties.
  • 1977: The Faculty of Domestic Science was renamed Faculty of Living Science.
  • 1983: A Doctoral course was added to the Graduate School of Agriculture.
  • 1986: The Graduate School of Living Science was established (Master's courses).
  • 1990: The Graduate School of Letters was established (Master's courses).
  • 1997: The Faculty of Living Science was reorganized into two faculties: the Faculty of Welfare Society and the Faculty of Human Environment.
  • 1998: The Faculty of Women's Junior College was abolished.
  • 2001: Doctoral courses were added to the Graduate School of Letters.
  • 2008: The faculties and graduate schools were reorganized.
  • Undergraduate Schools

  • Faculty of Letters
  • Faculty of Welfare Society
  • Faculty of Human Environment
  • Faculty of Agriculture
  • The faculties above were reorganized into three new faculties (in April 2008):

  • Faculty of Letters
  • Faculty of Public Policy
  • Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • Graduate Schools

  • Graduate School of Letters
  • Graduate School of Welfare Society
  • Graduate School of Human Environment Science
  • Graduate School of Agriculture
  • The graduate schools above were reorganized into three new schools (in April 2008):

  • Graduate School of Letters
  • Graduate School of Public Policy
  • Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • Institutes

  • Attached Library
  • Farm attached to the Faculty of Agriculture
  • References

    Kyoto Prefectural University Wikipedia


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