 Administration Building, Suita |
 Machikane-yama Garden,Toyonaka |
Osaka University is a national university founded in 1931 by the Japanese Government with strong support from local governments in the Osaka area. It was established with the aim of creating a center of higher education inheriting the liberal and progressive academic tradition of the Osaka area that had been the center of trade for the nation for many centuries.
Administration Building, Suita |
Machikane-yama Garden,Toyonaka |
The University now comprises ten undergraduate schools, twelve graduate schools, five research institutes, eighteen education and research centers, and two hospitals attached to the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Dentistry. Approximately fourteen thousand undergraduates and seven thousand graduate students, including over nine hundred foreign students, are enrolled today. There are approximately twenty-six hundred academic staff and two thousand administrative and supporting staff.
 Liberal Arts and Sciences Building, Toyonaka |
 Life Science Library & Faculty of Medicine Building, Suita |
 Institute of Laser Engineering, Suita |
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 Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research Building,Suita |
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The University comprises two
campuses, one in Suita (a northern suburb
of Osaka) and the other in Toyonaka (a northwestern
suburb of Osaka)*, with a combined area of
one hundred and fifty hectares (three hundred
and seventy acres).
*Refer to the campus maps.
| More information about Osaka University may
be found at the following web site: <http://www.osaka-u.ac.jp> |
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