鳥取大学 | |
Tottori Campus
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Motto | 知と実践の融合 (Fusion of Knowledge and Practice) |
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Type | Public (National) |
Established | 1949 |
President | Ryota Teshima |
Students | 6,354 |
Undergraduates | 5,268 |
Postgraduates | 1,085 |
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Location | Tottori, Tottori |
Campus | Tottori, Yonago |
Website | Tottori University |
National University Corporation Tottori University (国立大学法人鳥取大学 Tottori Daigaku?), abbreviated to Toridai (鳥大?), is a national university in Japan. The main campus is located in Koyamachō-Minami, Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture. Another campus, the Faculty of Medicine, is located on the Yonago Campus in Yonago, Tottori.
Tottori University (TU) was established in 1949 by integrating five national colleges in Tottori Prefecture:
The university at first had three faculties: the Faculties of Liberal Arts (in Tachikawa-cho Campus), Medicine (in Yonago Campus) and Agriculture (in Yoshikata Campus). The latter history of the university is as follows:
Tottori university ranked 30th of Japan’s top 300 universities in 2014 in the ranking "Truly Strong Universities" by Toyo Keizai. In another ranking, the university ranked 44th in Japan in the ranking by University Ranking by Academic Performance among 730 universities in 2013-2014.
Coordinates: 35°30′54″N 134°10′18″E / 35.51500°N 134.17167°E