Shizuoka University

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name = Shizuoka University
native_name = 静岡大学; "Shizuoka Daigaku"


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established = 1949
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city = Shizuoka & Hamamatsu
state = Shizuoka
country = Japan
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website= [http://www.shizuoka.ac.jp/ http://www.shizuoka.ac.jp/]

Shizuoka University (静岡大学; "Shizuoka Daigaku", abbreviated to 静大 "Shizudai") isa national university in Shizuoka, Japan.

The university consists of six faculties; Humanities and Social Sciences, Education, Informatics, Science, Engineering and Agriculture. It consists of two main campuses, in Shizuoka and Hamamatsu city (Engineering and Informatics faculties).

History

The university was founded on May 31, 1949 as an incorporation of several local educational institutions: Shizuoka High School, Shizuoka Teacher Training Institutes I & II, a Young Teacher Training Institute, and Hamamatsu College of Technology. At this initial stage, only the Education and Engineering faculties existed.

In 1951, the Shizuoka Prefectural Agricultural College was amalgamated into the fold, resulting in the creation of a new Agriculture faculty. 1965 brought on a structural rearrangement, combining several smaller schools within other faculties to initiate separate Science and Humanities faculties. With the coming of the digital age in 1995, an Informatics Faculty was added.

In 2006, the university is conducting research once more on its internal structure and is looking at making large changes including; reorganisation of humanities and education faculties and an increase of student places in legal graduate school.

Faculties

* Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
** Department of Sociology
** Department of Language and Literature
** Department of Law
** Department of Economics
* Faculty of Education
** Teacher Training Course
** Lifelong Education Course
** Integrated Sciences and Technology Education Course
** Art and Culture Course
* Faculty of Informatics
** Department of Computer Science
** Department of Information Arts
* Faculty of Sciences
** Department of Mathematics
** Department of Physics
** Department of Chemistry
** Department of Biological Science
** Department of Geo-sciences
* Faculty of Engineering
** Department of Mechanical Engineering
** Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
** Department of Materials Science and Chemical Science
** Department of Systems Engineering
** Divisions of Applied Science and Engineering
** Divisions of Sponsored Research
* Faculty of Agriculture
** Department of Environmental Sciences for Human Life
** Department of Biological Science
** Department of Forest Resources Science
** Department of Applied Biological Chemistry

Graduate School

* Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
* Graduate School of Education
* Graduate School of Informatics
* Graduate School of Science
* Graduate School of Engineering
* Graduate School of Agriculture
* Shizuoka Law School
* Graduate School of Electronic Science and Technology

Campuses

Shizuoka Campus

* Access
** From the 13th number of Shizutetsu bus stop in the northern entrance of JR Shizuoka Station, get on buses bound for either "Shizuoka Daigaku" or "Óya" and get off at "Shizudai-mae" or "Katayama". (25minutes bus ride, 8 buses in an hour)

Hamamatsu Campus

* Access
** From the 15th and 16th numbers of bus stops in the northern entrance of JR Hamamatsu Station, get off at "Shizuoka Daigaku" for any lines. (About 20 minutes bus ride, 15 buses in an hour)

Partner Universities

* University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
* University of Alberta, Canada
* Nanjing University, China
* Fudan University, China
* Xidian University, China
* Comenius University, Slovakia
* Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
* Zhejiang University, China
* Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
* Miryang National University, Korea
* Kasetsart University, Thailand
* Wuppertal University, Germany
* Yeungnam University, Korea

See also

* University of Shizuoka - a public university in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

External links

* [http://www.shizuoka.ac.jp/ Shizuoka University]