Kinjo Gakuin University

Kinjo Gakuin University
金城学院大学
Type Private women's university
Established 1889
Location Moriyama-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
35°12′36″N 136°59′46″E / 35.210°N 136.996°E / 35.210; 136.996
Website www.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, and it was chartered as a university 1949.

Kinjo Gakuin University has 14 undergraduate departments and majors covering a wide range of study 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.

University Milestones

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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