Type Public (National) Acceptance rate 34.1% (2015) Phone +81 3-3943-3151 Postgraduates 933 (2012) | Established 1875 Campus Urban Total enrollment 2,955 (1 May 2014) Undergraduates 2,062 (2012) | |
 | ||
President Kimiko Murofushi, Ph.D. Notable alumni Wakako Hironaka, Hiromi Kawakami, Arisa Kuroda, Mitsuko Shiga Similar Nara Women's University, Tokyo University of Foreig, Hitotsubashi University, Tsuda College, Tokyo Metropolitan University Profiles | ||
Ochanomizu University (お茶の水女子大学, Ochanomizu Joshi daigaku) is a national women's university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. It is one of only two national women's universities in the country, the other being Nara Women's University. "Ochanomizu" is the name of the Tokyo neighborhood where the university was founded.
Contents
Dance of ochanomizu university girls at komaba festival
History
The university traces its origins to 1875, when Tokyo Women's Normal School was founded in Tokyo's Ochanomizu neighborhood. It subsequently underwent a series of name changes: "The Women's Campus of Tokyo Normal School", "The Women's Campus of Higher Normal School", "Women's Higher Normal School", and "Tokyo Women’s Higher Normal School." During those years, the original campus was destroyed in the Great Kantō earthquake; in December 1932, a new campus was established in its present location in the Ōtsuka neighborhood of Bunkyō, Tokyo.
It was established as Ochanomizu University in 1949 and became a national university corporation under Japan's National University Corporation Law in 2004.
Affiliated institutions
Schools at all levels—nursery, elementary, junior high and high school—are also located on the university's campus.