同志社大学 | |
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| Motto | Latin: Veritas liberabit vos |
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Motto in English | "Truth shall make you free" |
| Type | Private |
| Established | Founded 1875, chartered 1920 |
| Endowment | €1 billion (JP¥169.6 billion) |
| President | Matsuoka Takashi |
| Vice-president | Nobuhiro Tabata, Yasuhiro Kuroki, Tsutao Katayama, Takashi Nishimura |
Academic staff | 2,357 (800 full-time, 1557 part-time) |
| Undergraduates | 27,024 |
| Postgraduates | 2,298 |
| Location | , , Japan 35°01′47″N 135°45′39″E / 35.029737°N 135.760725°E |
| Campus | Urban/suburban, 530 acres (210 ha) |
| Colors | White & purple |
| Nickname | Dodai (同大, Dōdai) |
| Mascot | Astro Boy (unofficial and historical) |
| Website | www |
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Doshisha University (同志社大学, Dōshisha daigaku), also referred to as Dodai (同大, Dōdai), is a private university in Kyoto, Japan. Established in 1875, it is one of Japan's oldest private institutions of higher learning, and has approximately 30,000 students enrolled on four campuses in Kyoto.[1] It is one of Japan's "Global 30" universities[2] and a member of "Kan-Kan-Dō-Ritsu" (関関同立), a group of four leading private universities in western Japan's Kansai region, along with Kansai University, Kwansei Gakuin University, and Ritsumeikan University.
- ^ "About Doshisha: Fact". Doshisha University. Retrieved July 21, 2013.
- ^ "Selection results - Project for Establishing University Network for Internationalization (Global 30) - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science". www.jsps.go.jp. Archived from the original on 13 December 2009. Retrieved 6 May 2019.