Yokohama National University
横浜国立大学; Yokohama Kokuritsu Daigaku | |
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1876 |
| President | Kunio Suzuki |
| Undergraduates | 7,610[1] |
| Postgraduates | 2,573[2] |
| Location | , , |
| Website | Official website |
Yokohama National University (横浜国立大学, Yokohama Kokuritsu Daigaku), or Yokokoku (横国) is a national university in Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It offers Doctoral degrees in education as part of a coalition with Tokyo Gakugei University, Saitama University, and Chiba University. It is noted for its Business Administration program.
History
The predecessor of the school was founded in 1876. It became a Japanese national university in 1949 by the amalgamation of Kanagawa Normal School, Kanagawa Youth Normal School, Yokohama College of Economics and the Yokohama Institute of Technology. The Faculty of Business Administration was founded in 1967. The university has Master's Degree Programs in Engineering (1962), Economics (1972), Business Administration (1972), and Education (1979). The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology was established in 1973 under the botanist Akira Miyawaki, and the Graduate School of International and Business Law was established in 1990. The Graduate School of International Development Studies was created in 1994 and the School of Law in 2004. Alumni include film director Shunji Iwai, photographer Akira Satō, game designers Hiromichi Tanaka and Hironobu Sakaguchi and Koshi Inaba, lead singer of the rock duo B'z.
About the name of Yokohama National University
Originally it was planned to name as "Yokohama University", but at that time the previous Yokohama City Economics College and private Yokohama vocational school were also wanted to apply their name as Yokohama University. They had a consultation about the name and decided not to use name "Yokohama University".
Faculties
- Faculty of Education and Human Sciences
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Business Administration
- School of Engineering Science
Graduate Schools
- Graduate School of Education
- International Graduate School of Social Sciences
- Graduate School of Engineering/ Faculty of Engineering
- Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences/ Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences
- Graduate School of Urban Innovation
Faculty of Business Administration
Yokohama National University's Faculty of Business Administration was established in 1967, and currently composed of four disciplinary areas: the Division of Business Administration, the Division of Accounting and Information, the Division of Management System Science and the Division of International Business. The faculty places emphasis on internationalization, with not only Japanese students, but also many students from overseas currently enrolled. Students are free to register subjects outside of their own division, and so are able to gain an education that covers all aspects of business administration. In the latter half of second year, students are assigned to a seminar, where they do research in a specialized area of an advising professor.
