University of Tokushima

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Tokushima University

徳島大学; Tokushima Daigaku
Type	National
Established	1949
Location	Tokushima , Tokushima , Japan
Website	Official website

Tokushima University (徳島大学, Tokushima Daigaku) is a national university in the city of Tokushima, Japan, with seven graduate schools and five undergraduate faculties. The university was founded in 1949 by merging six national education facilities into one. The 2014 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, Shuji Nakamura, graduated from Tokushima University.

On April 1, 2015, the name of the university was changed from the University of Tokushima to Tokushima University.^[1]