Type National President Hiroki Yamaguchi Website English Total enrollment 8,602 (1 May 2015) Founded 1949 Postgraduates 994 | Established 1949 Campus urban Acceptance rate 37.9% (2015) Phone +81 48-858-3005 Undergraduates 7,406 | |
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Location Saitama, Saitama, Japan Address 255 Shimookubo, Sakura Ward, Saitama, Saitama Prefecture 338-8570, Japan Notable alumni Takaaki Kajita, Le Minh Hung, Kazuhiko Yamashita, Yim Sovann, Natsuki Ikezawa Similar Yokohama National University, Chiba University, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo University of Agricult Profiles | ||
Unh has an exchange program with saitama university in japan
Saitama University (埼玉大学 Saitama Daigaku abbreviated 埼大 Saidai) is a Japanese national university located in a suburban area of Sakura-ku, Saitama City capital of Saitama Prefecture in Tokyo Metropolitan Area.
Contents
- Unh has an exchange program with saitama university in japan
- Saitama university
- History
- Okubo campus
- Satellite campuses
- International Graduate Program
- Notable alumni
- References
The University has five faculties (schools) for undergraduate education -Liberal Arts, Education, Economics, Science, and Engineering- and four graduate schools -Cultural Science, Education, Economic Science, and Science and Engineering-, all offering programs leading to doctorates as well as master's degrees. The total enrollment in the university is more than 8,500 with more than 500 overseas students pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate studies .
Saitama university
History
It was chartered in 1949 by the merger of Urawa Higher School (浦和高等学校, Urawa Kōtō Gakkō), Saitama Normal School (埼玉師範学校, Saitama Shihan Gakkō), and Saitama Youth Normal School (埼玉青年師範学校, Saitama Seinen Shihan Gakkō).
Okubo campus
Okubu campus is the main campus in Saitama university and can be accessed by bus or walking from Minami-Yono Station, Kita-Urawa Station, or Shiki Station.
Satellite campuses
Saitama university has two Satellite campuses:
International Graduate Program
To provide aspiring overseas students an opportunity to pursue higher education in Japan, International Graduate Program on Civil and Environmental Engineering was launched by the Graduate School of Science and Engineering in 1992. It offers opportunities to highly qualified students from overseas to pursue graduate studies and do research in various disciplines of environmental science and civil engineering. The fields of study include Infrastructure Management, Transportation Planning, Environmental Engineering, Ecological Engineering, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Concrete and Material Engineering, Structural and Wind Engineering, Earthquake Engineering.
The graduate program includes courses specially designed for international students, in which class instruction and research supervision are given in English and/or Japanese. Master thesis and doctoral dissertation are accepted in English. Japanese language courses are also offered for foreign students and their spouses. So far, 215 students from different countries have graduated from this program and are now engaged in academic and professional activities in different parts of the world.