Niigata University is a national university in Niigata, Japan, founded in 1949.
The university comprises nine faculties (Humanities, Education and Human Sciences, Law, Economics, Science, Medicine (consisting of a School of Medicine and a School of Health Sciences), Dentistry, Engineering and Agriculture) and seven Graduate Schools (Humanities, Medical and Dental Sciences, Education, Modern Society and Culture, Law, Science and Technology, and Economics). The Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Medicine School of Medicine, the Faculty of Medicine School of Health Sciences and the Graduate School of Humanities are Japanese only. Every other faculty and graduate school is bilingual.
Niigata University official web page (English) (http://www.niigata-u.ac.jp/index_e.html)
The University has five campuses in (additional info and facts about Hongo) Hongo, Komaba, (additional info and facts about Kashiwa) Kashiwa, Shirokane and (additional info and facts about Nakano) Nakano and 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, some 2,100 of them foreign (a high number by Japanese standards).
The symbol of the university is the (Deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree) ginkgo leaf, from the abundant trees throughout the area.
The university was founded by the (additional info and facts about Meiji) Meiji government in 1877 under its current name by amalgamating older government schools for medicine and Western learning.
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