Chūō University
| 中央大学 | |
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| Type | Private |
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| Established | 1885 |
| President | Shozaburo Sakai |
| Students | 26,589 |
| Undergraduates | 24,821 |
| Postgraduates | 1,768 |
| Location | Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www.chuo-u.ac.jp |
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Chuo University (中央大学 Chūō Daigaku?), commonly referred to as Chuo (中央?) or Chu-Dai (中大?), is a private flagship research university in Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1885 as Igirisu Horitsu Gakko (the English Law School), Chuo is one of the oldest and most prestigious institutions in the country.
The university operates four campuses in Tokyo: the largest in Hachiōji (Tama campus), one in Bunkyo (Kourakuen campus), and two others in Shinjuku (Ichigaya and Ichigaya-Tamachi campuses). Chuo is organized into six faculties, ten graduate schools, and nine research institutes. There are also four affiliated high schools and two affiliated junior high schools.
Chuo was founded as the English Law School (英吉利法律学校 Igirisu Hōritsu Gakkō?) in 1885 at Kanda in Tokyo by a group of lawyers. Before 1889, the school moved and was renamed to Tokyo College of Law (Tokyo Hōgakuin). The curriculum was changed to reflect the government reform of Japanese law and creation of a new civil code. Opposition to the implementation of new civil code resulted in the government shuttering of the campus journal and the subsequent creation of the Chuo Law Review (Hōgaku Shinpo), which has been regularly published since then.
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