Hokkaido University
北海道大学
Motto	少年よ、大志を抱け (Boys, Be Ambitious)
Established	Founded March 1876, Chartered April 1, 1918
Type	Public (National)
Endowment	US$-- billion (JP¥-- billion)
President	Saeki, Hiroshi
Staff	6,250
Undergraduates	11,153
Postgraduates	9,128
Location	Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan
Campus	Urban, --acres (3.0 km²)
Athletics	-- varsity teams
Mascot	None
Website	www.hokudai.ac.jp

Hokkaido University (北海道大学, Hokkaidō daigaku^?), or Hokudai (北大^?), is a national university of Japan. It is considered as a member of the National Seven Universities. It is situated in downtown Sapporo, just north of Sapporo Station, and stretching approximately 2.4 kilometers northward.

Contents 1 History 2 Faculties and graduate schools 2.1 Faculties 2.2 Graduate schools 3 Campus 3.1 Sapporo Campus 3.2 Hakodate Campus 4 Educational Philosophy 5 Famous alumni 6 Points of interest 7 External links 8 References

[edit] History

Hokkaido University (Hokudai for short) was originally founded in 1876 as Sapporo Agricultural College (札幌農學校, Sapporo nōgakkō^?) by William S. Clark with the help of five faculty members and a first class size of 24 students. It became Hokkaido Imperial University (北海道帝國大學, Hokkaidō teikoku daigaku^?) on April 1, 1918, during the Taishō period. It was one of nine Imperial Universities. The School of Medicine was established in 1919, at which time the Agricultural College became the Faculty of Agriculture. This was followed by the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Science, and finally in 1947, the Faculty of Law and Literature. The current name of Hokkaido University also came into use in 1947. In 1953, the Graduate School was established.^[1]

Since 2004 the university has been incorporated as a National University Corporation under a new law which applies to all national universities. Although the incorporation has led to increased financial independence and autonomy, Hokkaido University is still partially controlled by the Japanese Ministry of Education.

[edit] Faculties and graduate schools

[edit] Faculties

• Letters
• Education
• Law
• Economics
• Medicine
• Dental Medicine
• Engineering
• Veterinary Medicine
• Fisheries Sciences
• Agriculture
• Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Science

[edit] Graduate schools

• Letters
• Education
• Law
• Economics and Business Administration
• Medicine
• Dental Medicine
• Engineering
• Veterinary Medicine
• International Media and Communication
• Information Science and Technology
• Fisheries Sciences
• Environmental Earth Science
• Science
• Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Agriculture
• Life Science
• Public Policy

[edit] Campus

[edit] Sapporo Campus

The main Sapporo campus is located just north of Sapporo Station, and holds every programs available in Hokkaido University except its Faculty of Fisheries Science, and also Graduate School of Fisheries Science.

[edit] Hakodate Campus

The campus is located in Hakodate, the city located in southern part of Hokkaidō. Faculty and Graduate School of Fisheries Science are practiced in this campus. However, the students of Fisheries Science start their education in Hakodate campus from the second semester of their sophomore year, due to the fact that it is required for all freshmen and sophomores at their first semester to take courses in liberal arts at Sapporo campus.

[edit] Educational Philosophy

• Frontier Spirits (フロンティア精神, Furontia Seishin^?)^[2]
• Global Perspectives (国際性の涵養, Kokusaisei no Kan-yō^?)
• All-round Education (全人教育, Zenjin Kyōiku^?)
• Practical Learning (実学の重視, Jitsugaku no Jūshi^?)

[edit] Famous alumni

• Kanzo Uchimura, Christian evangelist, founder of Non-church Christianity Movement
• Akira Ifukube, composer
• Nitobe Inazo, the author of Bushido: the Soul of Japan, a Quaker
• Ryuzo Yanagimachi, cloning pioneer
• Mamoru Mohri, astronaut
• Arishima Takeo, novelist
• Hiroshi Ishii, computer scientist

[edit] Points of interest

• Hokkaido University Botanical Gardens

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Hokkaido University

• Hokkaido University, official website
• Hokkaido University International Students Association (HUISA)

[edit] References

• Hokkaido University (March, 2005) Handbook for International Students
• Sapporo

v • d • e National Seven Universities (Japan) Hokkaido • Kyoto • Kyushu • Nagoya • Osaka • Tohoku • Tokyo

This article on a Hokkaidō institute of higher education or related topic is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v • d • e

Coordinates: 43°04′29″N 141°20′27″E / 43.074687°N 141.340828°E / 43.074687; 141.340828