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Saga Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu. Saga Prefecture has a population of 809,248 (1 August 2020) and has a geographic area of 2,440 km2 (942 sq mi). Saga Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the northeast and Nagas ...

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. The university has five faculties with around 7,000 students. Its two campuses are in and .

History

The history of Saga University is complicated. The oldest Saga teacher's school was demoted to a prefectural school by the law of teacher's schools. started in 1920. This high school is the origin of Saga University. Then, and started in 1943-1944. These schools were named "Saga University" in 1949. started in 1976. Saga University and Saga Medical School merged in 2003. And the National University was corporatised in 2004.

Campus locations

* Campus: Honjo, Saga City * Campus: Nabeshima, Saga City

Faculties and graduate schools

Faculties

* Campus **Culture and Education **

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**Science and Engineering **Agriculture * Campus **Medicine

Graduate schools

* Campus **Education (Master's programme) **Economics (Master's programme) **Engineering (Master's and Doctorate programme) **Agriculture (Master's programme) * Campus **Medicine (Master's and Doctorate programme) *Other **The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University (Doctorate programme)

Exchange program

Saga University offers an exchange program called SPACE (Saga University Program for Academic Exchange). SPACE is a one-year program, with its main purpose to increase the exchange student's Japanese skills. SPACE offers independent study that allows the exchange student to conduct a simple research project with a professor.

Ranking

From "World Universities' ranking on the Web: top 4,000 World Ranking." in July 2008, Saga University (Japan) was ranked 1298.

Alumni

* Muhammed Alamgir (geotechnical engineer and university vice-chancellor) * Heiji Ogawa (Japanese governor) * Hiroshi Tanaka (researcher) * Jianbo Chen (researcher) * Kozueko Morimoto (cartoonist)

References

External links

Saga University website

World Universities' ranking on the Web
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