 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, fourteen graduate schools, the Faculty of Language and Culture, the School of Health and Sport Sciences, five research institutes, eighteen education and research centers, and two hospitals attached to the Medical School and the Faculty of Dentistry. Around twelve thousand undergraduates plus seven thousand graduate students, including approximately one thousand foreign students, are enrolled today. There are approximately two thousand five hundred academic staff and two thousand administrative and supporting staff.
 Liberal Arts and Sciences Building, Toyonaka |
 Ginkgo Hall, Faculty of Medicine, Suita |
 Senri Gate and Engineering Buildings, Suita |
 Cyber Media Center, Toyonaka |
 Gymnasium and Convention Center, Suita |
 The School of Letters, Toyonaka |
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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