Kyoto Institute of Technology (京都工芸繊維大学, Kyōto Kōgei Sen'i Daigaku) in

Kyoto, Japan Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the cit ...

is a Japanese national university established in 1949. The Institute's history extends back to two schools, Kyoto Craft High School (established in 1902 at Sakyo-ku, Yoshida) and Kyoto Sericulture Training School (established in 1899 at Kita-ku, Daishogun, under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce), which were forerunners of the Faculty of Engineering and Design and the Faculty of Textile Science, respectively. The former was moved to Sakyo-ku, Matsugasaki in 1930 and changed its name to Kyoto Industrial High School in 1944. The latter developed into Kyoto Sericulture High School, under supervision of the Ministry of Education in 1914, and changed its name to Kyoto Sericulture Technical High School in 1931 and then to Kyoto Technical High School of Sericulture in 1944. The two forerunners merged in 1949, due to educational system revisions, to establish the present School of Science and Technology. Together with Shinshu University and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, the Institute is one of Japan's three historical centers of textile research. Kyoto Institute of Technology has a campus at Matsugasaki in Sakyō-ku. Another campus is at Saga in Ukyō-ku. Its Japanese nickname is Kōsen (工繊). In English it is known as KIT. Beginning in October 2007, graduate course instruction became available in English through the International Program for Science and Technology for specially selected students from the 50 institutions worldwide with KIT Exchange Agreements.

Statistics

2,968 undergraduates (23% women) and 1110

graduate students Postgraduate or graduate education refers to academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate (bachelor's) degree. The organization and str ...

(23% women), 170 of whom are

international student International students, or foreign students, are students who undertake all or part of their tertiary education in a country other than their own and move to that country for the purpose of studying. In 2019, there were over 6 million internati ...

s from 30 countries, comprised the student body as of May 1, 2011. From 2008 to 2009, 330 KIT researchers traveled abroad and 175 researchers came to KIT from abroad.

Programs

Undergraduate programs

*Applied Biology *Biomolecular Engineering *Macromolecular Science and Engineering *Chemistry and Materials Technology *Electronics *Information Science *Mechanical and System Engineering *Design Engineering and Management *Architecture and Design *Integrated Science and Technology (evening programs in Bioscience, Nanomaterial Science, Mechatronics Technology and Information Design Technology) The university graduate school, established in 1988, awards master's and doctoral degrees in science and technology.

Master's programs

Doctoral programs

*Materials and Life Science *Engineering Design *Design Science *Advanced Fibro-Science *Biobased Materials Science

Centers and campus facilities

Kyoto Institute of Technology Saga Campus140513NI1

*Cooperative Research Center *Drosophila Genetic Resource Center *Center for Instrumental Analysis *Center for Environmental Science *Center for

Information Science Information science (also known as information studies) is an academic field which is primarily concerned with analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval, movement, dissemination, and protection of informatio ...

*Radioisotope Laboratory *Venture Laboratory *Incubation Center *Center for Fiber and Textile Science *Center for Bioresource Field Science *Center for Manufacturing Technology
International Exchange Center
*Health Care Service Center *Center Hall *University Library

In 2006, 28 patents were attributed to Kyoto Institute of Technology.

Notable KIT graduates and professors

(1856–1907

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1882–1944 (architect, professor)

https://tokyowing.wordpress.com/category/seiichi-shirai/ photos of work] (1905–1983) Architect, KIT graduate *Kimura, Kosuke (professor emeritus, former president) *Nakamura, Masao (professor emeritus, architect and researcher of tea houses and sukiya-style construction) *Takeda, Goichi 1872–1938 *Yoshitake, Touri 1886–1945 (alumni and architect, designer of the Diet Yokohama Customs Buildings) *Matsukuma, Hiroshi (History and Philosophy of Architecture, Public Space Planner)
Jinnai, Hiroshi
(professor), *Kishi, Waro (born 1950) (professor emeritus, architect) *Kimura, Hiroaki (born 1952)(professor, architect)

(1958 – professor, architect)

(born 1959)(professor, architect)
Kidosaki, Nagisa
(born 1960)(professor, architect)

(born 1960)(professor, architect) *Sakamoto, Chikao (1911–1998) alumni and former director of Hokkaido and Okinawa Development Bureaux *Ono, Shinji （1947–1967）former governor of Wakayama Prefecture *Matsui, Takaji (1956) – alumni, Biologist at Kyoto Municipal Zoo, Japan Center for Amphibians and Reptiles
Sato, Sanpei
- (born 1929) Cartoonist and Political Satirist of Fujisan Taro (Asahi Shinbun, 1965) fame *Mishima, Hisanori (alumni, architect and urban planner)
Kita, Chikara
(alumni and architect)

(born 1914)(alumni, ceramic artist and living national treasure)

(born 1937) (alumni, woodblock artist)

(1897–1982)

References

External links

* (in English)

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