 Administration Bureau (right) and ISC Hall, 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. In April of 2004, it will become one of 84 Incorporations installed by the National University Law as a result of national university reform scheme in Japan.
Administration Bureau (right) and ISC Hall, Suita |
Machikane-yama Garden, Toyonaka |
The University now (as of January, 2004) 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 Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Dentistry. Around twelve thousand undergraduates plus seven thousand graduate students, including over one thousand foreign students, are enrolled today. There are approximately two thousand five hundred academic staff and two thousand administrative and supporting staff.
 Mono-rail access between two campuses |
 Ginkgo Hall, Faculty of Medicine, Suita |
 Senri Gate and Engineering Buildings, Suita |
 Cyber Media Center, Toyonaka |
 Suita Main Gate |
 Toyonaka Main Gate |
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> |
 The Collaborative Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, Suita |