Overview
, abbreviated to , is a public university in Japan. The main campus (Kawasumi) is located in Mizuho-ku, Nagoya City. Other three campuses (Yamanohata, Tanabe-dori and Kita Chikusa) are also located in the city. Nagoya City University has been ranked the highest among public universities which is also one of leading universities in Japan.
History
Nagoya City University (NCU) was established in 1950 by merging two municipal universities: and . So NCU originally had two faculties: Medical School and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
NCU has added divisions and graduate schools as follows:
1955: College of General Education
1961: Doctoral course for the Division of Medicine
1964: Faculty of Economics
1966: Doctoral course for the Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences
1970: Doctoral course for the Division of Economics
1988: College of Nursing
1996: School of Humanities and Social Sciences / School of Design and Architecture
(by reorganizing and merging College of General Education, Nagoya Municipal Women's College [founded in 1947] and Nagoya City College of Child Education [founded in 1946])
1999: School of Nursing (by reorganizing College of Nursing)
Below are the histories of two preceding colleges of NCU:
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