Osaka Sangyo University

Osaka Sangyo University

大阪産業大学
Type	Private
Established	1928
President	Yoshihiko Motoyama ()
Academic staff	927 [1]
Students	10, 238 [2]
Address	3-1-1 Nakagaito, Daito City, Osaka, Japan, Osaka, Japan
Campus	Urban
Website	www.osaka-sandai.ac.jp

Osaka Sangyo University (大阪産業大学, Ōsaka sangyō daigaku^?) is a private university in Daitō, Osaka, Japan. It is abbreviated as "DaiSanDai" using first Japanese characters of its name (character "Ō" is also pronounced as "Dai" in Japanese). It was established in 1923 as Osaka Railway School. The University has 6 faculties and 4 graduate schools. Its campuses are located in the Nakagaito Area of Daito-City, Osaka close to the ancient Japanese capital of Nara. A satellite campus is located in Umeda district of Osaka City. There are about 11,000 total students, 10% of them are international students, and it is one of the major universities in Japan with higher number of international students. In 2004, it was selected as one of the especial universities under Educational Support Program for Especial Universities () of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japanese Government. University's award winning clean-energy solar car project frequently participates in numerous domestic and international clean energy competitions. Yoshihiko Motoyama (), former chairman of the Japan Society of International Economics, is the current President of the University. Yoshikuni Dobashi, former President of Kubota Corporation, is the current chairman of the board of directors of the University.

Osaka Sangyo University started the OSU Solar Car Project as an industry-academia project based learning program since 1989. The project is focused on the research and development of high efficiency solar car. The project is funded by major Japanese corporations like Panasonic, Citizen Holdings etc. OSU solar car models have been presented in numerous domestic and international clean energy competitions.

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