Hyogo University

Infobox University
name = Hyogo University
native_name = Lang|ja|兵庫大学


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established = Founded 1919
Chartered 1995
type = Private
president = Hideko Ohmura
city = Kakogawa
state = Hyōgo
country = Japan
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campus = Suburb
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website = [http://www.hyogo-dai.ac.jp/ www.hyogo-dai.ac.jp/]
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nihongo|Hyogo University|兵庫大学|Hyōgo daigaku is a private university in Japan. Its campus is located in Shinzaike, Hiraoka-cho, Kakogawa City, Hyōgo Prefecture. The university is one of the seven schools run by nihongo|Mutsumi Gakuen|睦学園|, a school foundation with a Buddhist background (Nishi Hongwanji denomination).

History

;Mutsumi Gakuen
* 1919: Taishi Sunday School was started in memory of the 1300th anniversary of Shotoku Taishi's death.
* 1923: Suma Taishi Hall was opened in Suma-ku, Kobe, to which the Training Course of Sewing (a girls' school) was attached.
* 1937: Suma Taishi Hall Foundation was incorporated. The foundation established Suma Mutsumi Girls' Vocational School (Sumanoura Girls' High School today).
* 1951: The school foundation was renamed Mutsumi Gakuen.
* 1955: The school foundation established Mutsumi Gakuen Women's Junior College.
* 1966: The junior college was renamed Hyogo Women's Junior College, moving from Suma-ku, Kobe to Kakogawa.;Hyogo University
* 1995: Mutsumi Gakuen established Hyogo University.
**with one faculty: Faculty of Economics and Information Science
* 1998: The junior college was reorganized into the Junior College Department of Hyogo University.
* 1999: Graduate School of Economics and Information Science was established.
* 2001: The Faculty of Health Science was added.
**with Departments of Nutrition Management and Health System Management
* 2006: The Department of Nursing was added.

Faculties (Undergraduate schools)

*Faculty of Economics and Information Science
*Faculty of Health Science
**Department of Nutrition Management
**Department of Health System Management
**Department of Nursing
*Faculty of Welfare Society

Graduate schools

*Graduate School of Economics and Information Science (Master's courses only)

References

External links

* [http://www.hyogo-dai.ac.jp/ Official Website (in Japanese)]