Motto 素顔で学ぶ、素直に生きる Established Founded May 1949 Undergraduates 3,690 Acceptance rate 38% (2015) Mascot Kamon-chan | Type Public (National) President Takamitsu Sawa Total enrollment 3,855 (1 May 2015) Phone +81 749-27-1005 | |
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Academic staff 218 Faculty of Economics: 101Faculty of Education: 97Affiliated Highschool, etc: 20 Similar Kyoto University of Educati, University of Shiga Prefecture, Wakayama University, Osaka Kyoiku University, Kyoto Institute of Technology | ||
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Shiga University (滋賀大学, Shiga daigaku), or Shigadai (滋賀大, Shigadai) is a national university in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It has campuses at the cities of Ōtsu and Hikone. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1943, and it was chartered as a university in 1949.
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Faculties
Shiga University has two faculties, the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Economics. Each faculty has a graduate school.
The Faculty of Education consists of three departments:
- (1) Department of School Teachers' Training,
which aims to develop teachers with attractive personality as well as practical leadership to respond productively to the new school education;
- (2) Department of Environment Education, which
aims to enhance understanding of current environmental systems and problems and encourage students to create new ways to solve problems they are facing.
The Faculty of Economics consists of six departments. All disciplines of Economics aim to develop specialists in economics with a global perspective and a problem solving ability capable of responding to the needs of a global information society.
The Graduate School of Education (Master’s Course) aims to develop teachers' expertise and practical capabilities so they can meet the diversified demands of the times; the Graduate School of Education is also designed to provide training for in-service teachers to improve their abilities.
The Graduate School of Economics has the Master's Course and the Doctoral Course. The Master's Course aims to develop specialists in the field economics with an international perspective. The Doctoral Course aims to train an international "Risk Manager" who is capable of performing risk analysis as well as risk management for economy or business administration.
History
The Otsu campus of Shiga University has its origin in the establishment of Shiga Normal School in Otsu in 1874. This school was reorganized as the Shiga College of Education in 1943. Upon the founding of Shiga University in May, 1949, the Shiga College of Education and the Shiga Teachers Training College were brought together as the Faculty of Liberal Arts.
The Hikone campus has its origin in the establishment of the Hikone Commercial College in 1922. This college was reorganized in 1944 as the Hikone College of Economics. At the time Shiga University was founded in May, 1949, the college had become the Faculty of Economics.
The administrative offices of the university are located on the Hikone campus.
The following table shows the development and reorganization of Shiga University since its foundation in 1949: