Profile of Osaka University

    Osaka University was 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 became one of 84 Incorporations founded under the National University Law that resulted from recent national university reform in Japan.

Administration Bureau (right) and ISC Hall, Suita

Machikane-yama Garden, Toyonaka

    The University now (as of January, 2005) comprises ten undergraduate schools, fifteen graduate schools, the Institute for Higher Education Research and Practice, the Faculty of Language and Culture, the School of Health and Sport Sciences, five research institutes, nineteen education and research centers, and two hospitals attached to the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Dentistry. Around twelve thousand undergraduates plus eight thousand graduate students, including over one thousand foreign students, are enrolled. 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
Shuttle Bus at Senri Gate, Suita	Cyber Media Center, Toyonaka
New Engneering Bulding; Suita	Toyonaka Main Gate

    The University comprises two main 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). Furthermore, the University maintains a downtown extension, The Nakanoshima Center, and two overseas offices, in the US (San Francisco) and in the Netherlands (Groningen).

*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

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