University of Hyogo

The University of Hyogo (兵庫県立大学, Hyōgo kenritsu daigaku^?, lit. Hyogo Prefectural University) is a public university in Japan. The headquarters office is located in Chuo-ku, Kobe City.

The University of Hyogo (UH) was established in April 2004 by integrating three universities which were run by Hyogo Prefecture government: Kobe University of Commerce (神戸商科大学, Kōbe shōka daigaku^?), Himeji Institute of Technology (姫路工業大学, Himeji kōgyō daigaku^?) and the College of Nursing Art and Science, Hyogo (兵庫県立看護大学, Hyōgo kenritsu kango daigaku^?).

At its birth, UH opened a new independent campus (with its headquarters office) in the Harborland (Chuo-ku, Kobe); the other campuses were those of the predecessors:

Below are the histories of the predecessors:

KUC was founded in 1929 as Hyogo Prefectural Kobe Higher Commercial School (兵庫県立神戸高等商業学校^?), a men's college (for age 17-20 or above). Because in 1929 the older Kobe Higher Commercial School (a national college) was reorganized into older Kobe University of Commerce (for age 19-22 or above; see Kobe University), the prefecture lost a college for boys at age 17-20. So the prefecture founded its own commercial college. The campus was located on a hill called Seiryōdai (星陵台^?, [lit. Starry Hill]) in Tarumi. In 1944 the college was renamed Kobe College of Economics (神戸経済専門学校^?). Among the notable alumni are Isao Nakauchi (the founder of Daiei) and Nobuo Okishio (who finally graduated Kobe University).