Today we visited Nagoya University in Nagoya, Japan. I was really impressed with the university campus. we were greeted by some of the professors and a group of graduate level students.
Nagoya University is one of seen former Imperial universities. An "Imperial University" is formally used to refer to seven public institutions of higher education in Japan. The other "Imperial universities" are Hokkaido University, Tohoku University, University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Osaka University, and Kyushu University. Nagoya is currently one of the nine national universities given comprehensive research university status (which is comparable to a Division 1 university here in America).
The campus consists of 9 undergraduate schools and 14 graduate schools. Enrollment of 10,000 undergraduates and 6,000 graduates. Nagoya approaches human development from various theoretical and practical perspectives. The two majors areas offered are Education and Psychology. And unlike other schools of education, their main focus is not teacher training but rather the academic study of the educational and psychological disciplines. As a research university, Nagoya is committed to the advancement of the discipline and the training of future scholars who will assure the continuance of the study of Education as a field in Japan.
The GSEHD (Graduate School of Education and Human Development) is wholly or partially affiliated with the on-campus organizations like the Center for Research in Secondary School Education, Student Counseling Center, Center for Studies in Higher Education and the Center for Development Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry. They have small classes, 40 faculty for only 70 undergrads in each year level, they offer a wide range of practical courses and fieldwork and their graduate program is a unique initiative which is geared for training educational professionals.
Some quick facts:
- Nagoya is the 4th largest city in Japan with 2.3 million people.
- It's located 1.5 hours from Tokyo and 1 hour from Kyoto by bullet train.
- There's over 100 international enterprises that have headquarters in the Greater Nagoya area
- 4 Nobel Laureates in Japan since 2000 are from Nagoya University.
- It has overseas offices in China, Uzbekistan, Germany and in the United States.
After getting to meet some of the students and staff, we all went out for dinner together.
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