Ochanomizu Women's College

Ochanomizu University

お茶の水女子大学
South Gate entrance
Type	National university
Established	1875
President	Kimiko Murofushi, Ph.D.
Undergraduates	2062 (as of 2012[update])
Postgraduates	933 (as of 2012[update])
Location	Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
Campus	Urban area
Website	www.ocha.ac.jp

Ochanomizu University (お茶の水女子大学, Ochanomizu Joshi Daigaku) is a Women's university in Bunkyō-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Ochanomizu University is one of the top national universities in Japan.

"Ochanomizu" is the name of a Tokyo neighborhood where the university was founded, and resides.

The university traces its origins to 1875, when Tokyo Women's Normal School was founded in Tokyo's Ochanomizu neighborhood (now Yushima, Bunkyo-ku). It subsequently underwent a series of name changes: "The Women's Campus of Tokyo Normal School", "The Women's Campus of Higher Normal School", "Women's Higher Normal School", and "Tokyo Women’s Higher Normal School."

The original campus was destroyed in the Great Kantō earthquake; on 31 August 1932, a new campus was established in its present location in the Ōtsuka neighborhood of Bunkyō, Tokyo, where the school buildings were constructed by 1936.

It was established as Ochanomizu University in 1949 and became a national university corporation under Japan's National University Corporation Law in 2004. Its faculties of graduate schools with Home Economics (master's program), Humanities and Science (doctoral program), started respectively in 1963 and 1976, and they were reorganized into the Graduate School of Humanities and Science starting in 1997 with master's research courses in humanities, science, and home economics. Since 2007, the Graduate School was positioned to lead and strengthen education and research when they reorganized Graduate School of Humanities and Science to the Institute for Human Life Innovation and the Institute for Education and Human Development.

The following institutions, colleagues, and schools are associated with Ochanomizu University, and located on campus :