, Japan, is a national university located in

Ibaraki Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Ibaraki Prefecture has a population of 2,871,199 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Ibaraki Prefecture borders Fukushima Prefecture to the north, Tochigi Prefecture ...

, with campuses in the cities of Mito, Ami and Hitachi. It was established on May 31, 1949, integrating these prewar institutions: Mito High School (Mito Kōtō-Gakkō), Ibaraki Normal School (Ibaraki Shihan-Gakkō), Ibaraki Juvenile Normal School (Ibaraki Seinen Shihan-Gakkō), and Taga Technical Specialists' College (Taga Kōgyō Senmon-Gakkō). The initial colleges were the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Education, and the College of Engineering.

Undergraduate and Graduate Schools

;Undergraduate Courses *College of

Humanities and Social Sciences Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the tim ...

(at Mito Campus) *College of

Education Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty ...

(at Mito Campus) *College of

Science Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...

(at Mito Campus) *College of

Engineering Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more speciali ...

(at Hitachi Campus) *College of

Agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people t ...

(at Ami Campus) ;Graduate Courses *Graduate School of Humanities *Graduate School of Education *Graduate School of

Science and Engineering Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more speciali ...

*Graduate School of

Research Institutes

*Institute of Regional Studies *Institute of Izura Art Culture *Frontier Research Center for Applied Atomic Sciences

Timeline

*1952, April - Ibaraki Prefectural University of Agriculture (Noka Daigaku) was placed under national management and established as the College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University *1955, June - Establishment of Izura Institute of Arts and Culture *1955, July - Establishment of the Junior College of Technology *1967, June - Establishment of the College of Humanities, the College of Science, and the College of Liberal Arts as a result of the reorganization of the College of Arts and Sciences *1968, April - Establishment of the Graduate School of Engineering *1969, January - Establishment of the Institute of General Regional Studies* *1970, April - Establishment of the Graduate School of Agriculture *1973, April - Opening of the University Health Center *1979, April - Establishment of the Graduate School of Science *1985, April - Became a constitutive university for the United Graduate School of Agricultural Science (Doctoral program) in Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology *1985, July - Establishment of the Information Processing Center* *1988, April - Establishment of the Graduate School of Education *1989, May - Establishment of the Center for Cooperative Research and Development *1991, April - Establishment of the Graduate School of Humanities, and the Center for Instrumental Analysis *1992, April - Establishment of the Center for Education and Research in Lifelong Learning *1993, March - Abolition of the Junior College of Technology *1993, April - Establishment of the Graduate School of Engineering (Doctoral program) *1995, April - Merger of the Graduate School of Engineering and the Graduate School of Science into the Graduate School of Science and Engineering *1996, March - Abolition of the College of Liberal Arts *1996, April - Establishment of Center for Research and Development in University Education* *1997, April - Establishment of Center for Water Environmental Studies *1998, April - Reorganization of Information Processing Center *1999, April - Opening of Gene Research Center *2006, April - Establishment of Institute for Global Change Adaptation Science *2008, April - Establishment of Frontier Research Center for Applied Atomic Sciences *2014, April - Establishment of Social Collaboration Center *2017, April - Reorganization of College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Institute for Liberal Arts Education * indicates facilities established according to the university's internal decisions.

External links

Ibaraki University Official Homepage
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