Kinjo Gakuin University

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Kinjo Gakuin University
金城学院大学
TypePrivate women's university
Established1889
Location,
Aichi Prefecture
,
Japan

35°12′36″N 136°59′46″E / 35.210°N 136.996°E / 35.210; 136.996
Websitewww.kinjo-u.ac.jp/eng/index.html

Kinjo Gakuin University (金城学院大学, Kinjō gakuin daigaku) is a private women's university in Moriyama-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1889. It was chartered as a university in 1949.

Kinjo Gakuin University has 14 undergraduate departments and majors covering a wide range of fields — from human/social science to natural science — and a graduate school in the humanities and in human ecology offering master's and doctoral degrees.

Milestones[edit]

  • 1889 Kinjo Girls' School (a private school) established
  • 1927 Kinjo Girls' Vocational School established
  • 1947 Under educational system reform, Kinjo Gakuen Junior High School established
  • 1948 School renamed
  • 1949 Kinjo Gakuin University (College of English Literature) established
  • 1954 College of English Literature reorganized to Faculty of Literature
  • 1962 College of Home Economics (present-day Human Life and Environment) established
  • 1967 Graduate School of Humanities established
  • 1996 Graduate School of Human Ecology established
  • 1997 College of Contemporary Society and Culture established
  • 2002 College of Human Sciences established
  • 2005 College of Pharmacy established

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