Doshisha University

Doshisha University
同志社大学
MapMap around Imadegawa
MottoLatin: Veritas liberabit vos
Motto in English
"Truth shall make you free"
TypePrivate
EstablishedFounded 1875, chartered 1920
Endowment€1 billion (JP¥169.6 billion)
PresidentMatsuoka Takashi
Vice-presidentNobuhiro Tabata, Yasuhiro Kuroki, Tsutao Katayama, Takashi Nishimura
Academic staff
2,357 (800 full-time, 1557 part-time)
Undergraduates27,024
Postgraduates2,298
Location, ,
Japan

35°01′47″N 135°45′39″E / 35.029737°N 135.760725°E / 35.029737; 135.760725
CampusUrban/suburban, 530 acres (210 ha)
Colors   White & purple
NicknameDodai (同大, Dōdai)
MascotAstro Boy (unofficial and historical)
Websitewww.doshisha.ac.jp/en/index.html Edit this at Wikidata

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.

  1. ^ "About Doshisha: Fact". Doshisha University. Retrieved July 21, 2013.
  2. ^ "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.