Osaka Prefecture University
| 大阪府立大学 | |
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | Founded 1883 Chartered 1949 |
| President | Hiroshi Tsuji |
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Academic staff
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755 full-time |
| Students | 7,959 |
| Undergraduates | 6,434 |
| Postgraduates | 1,525 |
| Location | Sakai, Osaka, Japan |
| Campus | Suburb |
| Colors | Ultramarine blue |
| Website | www.osakafu-u.ac.jp |
Osaka Prefecture University (大阪府立大学 Ōsaka furitsu daigaku?) (OPU), also abbreviated to Fudai (府大?), is one of the largest public universities in Japan. The main campus is among big Kofun tombs in Sakai, Osaka.
OPU was established in 2005 in its current form by integrating three prefectural universities: University of Osaka Prefecture (大阪府立大学), Osaka Women's University (大阪女子大学) and Osaka Prefecture College of Nursing (大阪府立看護大学).
UOP was originally established in 1949 as Naniwa University (浪速大学: Naniwa is the classical name for Osaka) by mingling several national and public technical colleges. Among them was Osaka National College of Engineering (官立大阪工業専門学校). Since then the faculties in the field of engineering have been very competitive. In 1955 the university was renamed University of Osaka Prefecture (Japanese name for the university has not been changed since 1955).
The history of the precedent colleges of Naniwa University (NU) is as follows:
In 1883, the prefectural government founded the Veterinary Training Institute (獣医学講習所 Jūigaku kōshūjo?) attached to Osaka Prefectural Medical School. In 1888, the institute was moved to Osaka Prefectural School of Agriculture (大阪府立農学校 Ōsaka furitsu nōgakkō?) in Sakai, which had two courses of agriculture and veterinary science. In 1942, during World War II, the course for Veterinary Medicine was reorganized into Osaka Higher School of Veterinary Medicine (大阪高等獣医学校), which was renamed Osaka College of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Husbandry (大阪獣医畜産専門学校) in 1945. This prefectural college, together with Osaka Agricultural College (大阪農業専門学校, established in 1944 in Ikeda), constituted NU Faculty of Agriculture (now OPU Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences/School of Life and Environmental Sciences).
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