Kwansei Gakuin University
| 関西学院大学 | |
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| Latin: Universitas Collegii Kwanseiensis | |
| Motto | Mastery for Service (奉仕のための練達 Hōshi no Tame no Rentatsu?) |
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| Type | Private |
| Established | Founded Sep. 28, 1889, Chartered March 1912 Chartered Mar. 7, 1932 |
| Affiliation | United Church of Christ in Japan |
| Endowment | US$847.8 million (JP¥96.5 billion) |
| Chancellor | Ruth M. Grubel, Ph.D. |
| President | Osamu Murata |
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Academic staff
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475 full-time, 1,045 part-time |
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Administrative staff
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279 full-time |
| Students | 19,966 |
| Undergraduates | 18,302 |
| Postgraduates | 1,529 |
| 782 | |
| Location |
Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan 34°46′09″N 135°20′50″E / 34.769187°N 135.347174°ECoordinates: 34°46′09″N 135°20′50″E / 34.769187°N 135.347174°E |
| Campus |
Suburban / Urban, 148 acres (0.6 km²) |
| Colors |
Blue, white, and yellow |
| Athletics | 34 varsity teams |
| Nickname | Fighters, Saints, Jayhawks |
| Mascot | 8th Man (unofficial and historical) |
| Affiliations | Kansai Big 6, ACUCA |
| Website | www.kwansei.ac.jp |
Kwansei Gakuin University (関西学院大学 Kansei Gakuin Daigaku?), colloquially abbreviated to Kangaku (関学?), is a non-denominational Christian private and coeducational university in Nishinomiya, Sanda, Osaka City, and Tokyo, Japan. Chartered in 1932, it is the 13th institution with university status in Kansai region, the 23rd oldest outside of Greater Tokyo, and the 46th oldest in the country. Kwansei Gakuin University is one of the leading private universities in Japan. It has a relatively strong network of alumni in Kansai region and has produced a number of CEOs of Japanese companies and politicians.
Kwansei Gakuin was founded in 1889 in Kobe, Japan by Dr. Walter Russell Lambuth (later Bishop), a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MEC-S), USA, with the aim of training missionaries and educating young people based on the principles of Christianity. It was intended to be a small private institution with two departments, a theological school and a middle school. In 1910 the Canadian Methodist Church and the Japanese Methodist Church joined the operation, and Kwansei Gakuin opened a college with literary and commercial courses in 1912. The same year, Kwansei Gakuin moved to the rural farmland which is the site of the present campus in Nishinomiya Uegahara near Mount Kabuto. Three years later, it acquired the status of a full degree-granting university and continued as one of 54 such institutions in Japan until the end of World War II. The school, formerly all-male, opened its doors to women in 1943. In 1948, the university embraced the new 6-3-3-4 school system (6 years in elementary school, 3 in junior high, 3 in senior high, and 4 in college), based upon the American education framework.
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