University of Yamanashi

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University of Yamanashi

山梨大学 (Yamanashi Daigaku)
Type	National
Established	2002
President	Shinji Shimada[1]
Administrative staff	1,451
Students	4921
Undergraduates	3876
Postgraduates	925
Doctoral students	270
Location	Kofu and Tamaho , Yamanashi , Japan
Campus	Kofu and Tamaho
Colors	Wine red
Nickname	Nashidai
Website	http://www.yamanashi.ac.jp/

The University of Yamanashi (山梨大学, Yamanashi Daigaku),^[2] abbreviated to Nashidai (梨大)^[3]Note, is a national university that has campuses in Kofu and Chūō, Japan. The University of Yamanashi has its origin in “Kitenkan”(徽典館) which was founded in 1795 as a branch school of “Shoheizaka-School” of Tokugawa Government (later the University of Tokyo) and was reformed into the Normal School of Yamanashi after the Meiji Restoration. In 1921 the Normal School of Yamanashi for Junior and in 1924 the Yamanashi High School of Engineering were established. After the World War II these three schools were integrated to the University of Yamanashi according to the new school system of Japan. In 1978 the Yamanashi Medical University was opened which was only a Medical University in Prefecture of Yamanashi. Today’s University of Yamanashi was founded in 2002 by a merger between (former) University of Yamanashi and Yamanashi Medical University. It is formally referred to as the National University Corporation University of Yamanashi. In 2012 the Faculty of Education and Human science and the Faculty of Engineering were reorganized and the Faculty of Life and Environmental Science was newly established.^[4] In 2016 the lifelong studies course in the Faculty of Education and Human science was abolished, and the faculty was renamed to the Faculty of Education.^[5]

The university has therefore four faculties: the Faculty of Education Human Sciences, the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Life and Environmental Science. It should not be confused with the similarly named Yamanashi Prefectural University.

The University of Yamanashi is located in Kofu, which is the prefectural capital of Yamanashi and is distant about 120 kilometres west from Tokyo. For the University stands in the Centre of the Kofu Basin surrounded by many mountains, many students are often engaged in leisure and sports in holidays.