Keio University

Keio University

慶應義塾大学
Motto	Calamus gladio fortior (Latin: The pen is mightier than the sword)
Type	Private
Established	1858
Endowment	N/A
Chancellor	Prof. Atsushi Seike
Academic staff	full time 2,604
Administrative staff	2,722
Students	33,825
Undergraduates	28,931
Postgraduates	4,894
Doctoral students	1,234
Location	Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Campus	Urban
Athletics	39 varsity teams
Colors	Blue and Red
Nickname	Unicorns, etc.
Affiliations	ASAIHL, Council on Business & Society
Website	Keio University

Keio University (慶應義塾大学, Keiō Gijuku Daigaku^?), abbreviated as Keio (慶應^?) or Keidai (慶大^?), is a Japanese university located in Minato, Tokyo. It is known as the oldest institute of higher education in Japan. Founder Fukuzawa Yukichi originally established it as a school for Western studies in 1858 in Edo (now Tokyo). It has eleven campuses in Tokyo and Kanagawa. It has ten faculties: Letters, Economics, Law, Business and Commerce, Medicine, Science and Technology, Policy Management, Environment and Information Studies, Nursing and Medical Care, and Pharmacy.

The university is one of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's thirteen "Global 30" Project universities. In the United States, Keio has a high school called "Keio Academy of New York".

Keio traces its history to 1858 when Fukuzawa Yukichi, who had studied the Western educational system at Brown University in the United States, started to teach Dutch while he was a guest of the Okudaira family. In 1868 he changed the name of the school to Keio Gijuku and devoted all his time to education. While Keiō's initial identity was that of a private school of Western studies, it expanded and established its first university faculty in 1890, and became known as a leading institute in Japanese higher education. It was the first Japanese university to reach its 150th anniversary, celebrating this anniversary in 2008.