, abbreviated to , is a

public university A public university or public college is a university or college that is in owned by the state or receives significant public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private university. Whether a national universit ...

in Japan. It is located in

Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka is one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. It is located on the southern part of the Uemachi Plateau, in the southernmost part of Osaka City, and is separated from Sakai City's Sakai-ku and Kita-ku by the Yamato River. There are six rail lines, and thr ...

. It is one of the most prestigious universities in Japan regarding

Applied Linguistics Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of the academic fields related to applied linguistics are education, psychology, communication rese ...

. The university will merge with

Osaka Prefecture University (OPU), also abbreviated to , is one of the largest public universities in Japan. The main campus is among big Kofun tombs in Sakai, Osaka. The university will merge with Osaka City University to form Osaka Metropolitan University (OMU) in A ...

to form

Osaka Metropolitan University , abbreviated to OMU, is a Japanese public university that was established through the integration of Osaka City University (OCU) and Osaka Prefecture University (OPU) on 1 April 2022. OMU was inaugurated with 1 undergraduate college, 11 unde ...

(OMU) in April 2022.

History

OCU's predecessor was founded in 1880, as History Osaka City University
/ref> with donations by local merchants. It became Osaka Commercial School in 1885, then was municipalized in 1889. Osaka City was defeated in a bid to draw the Second National Commercial College (the winner was

Kobe Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, whic ...

City), so the city authorities decided to establish a municipal commercial college without any aid from the national budget. In 1928, the college became , the first municipal university in Japan. In 1901, the school was reorganized to become , later authorized under Specialized School Order in 1904. The college had grand brick buildings around the Taishō period. Osaka City Univ Chapel

In 1949 OCU had five faculties (Business / Economics / Law and Literature / Science and Engineering / Home Economics).
In 1953, the Faculty of Law and Literature was divided into two faculties.
In 1955, Osaka City Medical University was incorporated and became the Faculty of Medicine.
In 1959, the Faculty of Science and Engineering was divided into two faculties.
In 1975, the Faculty of Home Economics was reorganized into the Faculty of Human Life Science.
In 2003, the Graduate School of Creative Cities was established.
In 2006, the Urban Research Plaza and the Advanced Research Institute for Natural Science and Technology were established.
Due to financial problems in many cities, all of the municipal universities in Japan were requested to incorporate. OCU became a Public University Corporation in 2006.
In 2015 OCU celebrated its 135th anniversary. In June 2020, OCU announced it would be merging with

in a new university named ''University of Osaka''. However, after the name was announced on June 26, 2020, Osaka University President released a statement pointing out that the English version of the new university's name was "remarkably similar" to that of Osaka University, adding, "It will cause confusion among our students, and work as a great obstacle for the future of both universities, which are reaching out to the world."

Organization

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Undergraduate schools

* Faculty of Business * Faculty of Economics * Faculty of Law * Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences * Faculty of Science * Faculty of Engineering * Faculty of Medicine * School of Nursing * Faculty of Human Life Science

Graduate schools

* Graduate School of Business * Graduate School of Economics * Graduate School of Law * Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences * Graduate School of Science * Graduate School of Engineering * Graduate School of Medicine * Graduate School of Nursing * Graduate School of Human Life Science *Graduate School of Urban Management * Graduate School of Creative Cities 大阪市立大学医学部

Institutes

* Media Center and Library *Center of Education and Research for Disaster Management (CERD) *Research Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (ReCAP) *URA Center and Osaka City University Incubator *Center for Health Science Innovation (CHSI) *

University Hospital A university hospital is an institution which combines the services of a hospital with the education of medical students and with medical research. These hospitals are typically affiliated with a medical school or university. The following is a l ...

* Research Center for Urban Health and Sports * Research Center for Human Rights * Urban Research Plaza * Center for Research and Development of Higher Education * Research Center for Finance & Securities * English Education Development Center * Advanced Research Institute for Natural Science and Technology *

Botanical Gardens Faculty of Science Osaka City University The are botanical gardens operated by Osaka City University. They are near the Keihan- Kisaichi Station, Katano, Osaka, Japan and open to the public. The gardens were established in 1950 and contain about 4500 species from around the world, inc ...

; located in

Katano file:The Katano Cityhall.JPG, 260px, Katano City Hall is a Cities of Japan, city located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 77,401 in 33417 households and a population density of 3000 persons per km2. The total ...

) * Toneyama Institute for Tuberculosis Research (a part of Medical School; located in

Toyonaka is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on October 15, 1936. Geography Climate Toyonaka has a Humid subtropical climate (Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The averag ...

)

Academic rankings

Evaluation from Business World

Notable alumni

Masao Abe was a Japanese Buddhist philosopher and religious studies scholar who was emeritus professor at Nara University. He is best known for his work in comparative religion, developing a Buddhist-Christian interfaith dialogue which later also inc ...

, professor in religious studies * Yoshi Amao, actor *

Hideo Hashimoto is a Japanese football player. He plays for FC Imabari. Club career Hashimoto was born in Osaka on 21 May 1979. He joined J1 League club Gamba Osaka from youth team in 1998. He played many matches as right-side midfielder and defensive midfiel ...

, soccer player *

Takafumi Isomura was a Japanese politician. He served as the former mayor of Osaka from 1995 until 2003 and professor emeritus of Osaka City University. Isomura was born in the city of Osaka and graduated from Osaka City University. Isomura initially began his ...

, former mayor of Osaka City *

Takeshi Kaikō was a prominent post-World War II Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, literary critic, and television documentary writer. He was distinguished by his knowledge, intellect, sense of humor and conversational skills, and although his st ...

, writer *

Otogo Kataoka is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NHI), which forms part of the Nomura Group. It plays a central role in the securities business, the Group's core business. Nomura is a financial services group and global investment bank. Bas ...

, former president of

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* Takamaro Tamiya, a hijacker of

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, former president of

Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate. He serves as the director of Center for iPS Cell (induced Pluripotent Stem Cell) Research and Application and a professor at the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyoto ...

Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( sv, Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded annually by the Swedish Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Institute to scientists in the various fields of physiology or medicine. It is one of the ...

2012, the scientist who discovered the

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Induced pluripotent stem cells (also known as iPS cells or iPSCs) are a type of pluripotent stem cell that can be generated directly from a somatic cell. The iPSC technology was pioneered by Shinya Yamanaka's lab in Kyoto, Japan, who showed in ...

* Eiichi Yamashita, politician

References

External links

* {{Authority control Public universities in Japan Education in Osaka Osaka City University Kansai Collegiate American Football League