is a

private university Private universities and private colleges are institutions of higher education, not operated, owned, or institutionally funded by governments. They may (and often do) receive from governments tax breaks, public student loans, and grant (money ...

in Ebetsu, Hokkaido,

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. Its predecessor, a vocational school, was founded in 1946. It was chartered as a junior college in 1950. A four-year college (Sapporo College of Commerce, 札幌商科大学) opened in 1968; it adopted the name Sapporo Gakuin University in 1984. The junior college was closed in 1979.

Faculties and departments

Undergraduate

* Faculty of Commerce (hiring freeze in 2009) ** Department of Commerce * Faculty of Business ** Department of Business ** Department of Accounting and Finance * Faculty of Economics ** Department of Economics * Faculty of Humanities ** Department of Human Science ** Department of English Language and Literature ** Department of Clinical Psychology ** Department of Child Development * Faculty of Law ** Department of Law * Faculty of Social Information ** Department of Social Information

Graduate schools

* Graduate School of Law * Graduate School of Clinical Psychology * Graduate School of Regional Management

External links

Official website
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