Tottori University
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History
Tottori University (TU) was established in 1949 by integrating five national colleges in Tottori Prefecture:
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The university at first had three faculties: the Faculties of Liberal Arts (in Tachikawa-cho Campus), Medicine (in Yonago Campus) and Agriculture (in Yoshikata Campus). The latter history of the university is as follows:
- 1965: the Faculty of Engineering was established (in Tachikawa-cho Campus).
- 1966: the Faculty of Liberal Arts was renamed Faculty of Education.
- 1999: the Faculty of Education was reorganized into Faculty of Education and Regional Sciences.
- 2004: the Faculty of Education and Regional Sciences was reorganized into Faculty of Regional Sciences.
Organization
Faculties (undergraduate schools)
- Faculty of Regional Sciences
- Faculty of Medicine (in Yonago Campus)
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Agriculture
Graduate schools
- Graduate School of Regional Sciences (Master's courses only)
- Graduate School of Medical Sciences (Yonago Campus)
- Graduate School of Engineering
- Graduate School of Agriculture (Master's courses only)
- United Graduate School of Agricultural Science (Doctoral courses only)
- United Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine (Doctoral courses only)
Facilities
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- The university's Geospheric Structure and Dynamics Laboratory is represented on the national Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction.[4]
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General rankings
Tottori university ranked 30th of Japan's top 300 universities in 2014 in the ranking "Truly Strong Universities" by Toyo Keizai. In another ranking, the university ranked 44th in Japan in the ranking by University Ranking by Academic Performance among 730 universities in 2013–2014.
References
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- ↑ Organizations with ties to CCEP CCEP, accessed 2011-03-19
- ↑ 鳥取大学医学部付属病院
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External links
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