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Ochanomizu University

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Type
  
Public (National)

Location
  
Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

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)

Ochanomizu University

Former names
  
Tokyo Women's Normal School (among others)

President
  
Kimiko Murofushi, Ph.D.

Address
  
2 Chome-1-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo, Tokyo 112-0012, Japan

Founded
  
31 May 1949, Ochanomizu, Tokyo

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.

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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.

References

Ochanomizu University Wikipedia