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, abbreviated to , is a public university in Japan. The main campus (Kawasumi) is located in Mizuho-ku, Nagoya City. Other three campuses (Yamanohata, Tanabe-dori and Kita Chikusa) are also located in the city. Nagoya City University has been ranked the highest among public universities which is also one of leading universities in Japan.〔http://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/7981〕 == History == Nagoya City University (NCU) was established in 1950 by merging two municipal universities: and . So NCU originally had two faculties: Medical School and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. NCU has added divisions and graduate schools as follows: *1955: College of General Education *1961: Doctoral course for the Division of Medicine *1964: Faculty of Economics *1966: Doctoral course for the Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences *1970: Doctoral course for the Division of Economics *1988: College of Nursing *1996: School of Humanities and Social Sciences / School of Design and Architecture *:(by reorganizing and merging College of General Education, Nagoya Municipal Women's College (in 1947 ) and Nagoya City College of Child Education (in 1946 )) *1999: School of Nursing (by reorganizing College of Nursing) Below are the histories of two preceding colleges of NCU: ;Nagoya City Women's Medical College NCWMC was founded in 1943, during World War II, to meet the growing need of doctors (the college's original name in Japanese was , which was renamed in 1944.). In 1947, after the war, the college became a university (''daigaku'') under Japan's older education system. In 1950 NCWMC was merged into NCU and became Medical School (a coeducational school). The old campus of NCWMC is NCU Tanabe-dori Campus today. ;Nagoya Pharmaceutical College The origin of NPC was founded in 1884 as .〔The history is based on Nagoya City University (Oct. 2001): (''"50-year History of Nagoya City University"''). See also: (【引用サイトリンク】title=NCU: Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences: History ).〕 This was a private school run by Nagoya Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Nakakita Co., Ltd. today). In 1890 the school was renamed Aichi School of Pharmacy (). The school was abolished in 1921, because it could not afford to meet the new requirement of Japanese pharmacist test (The requirement was that the examinees should be the graduates of ''3-year'' pharmaceutical schools; Aichi School of Pharmacy had only a ''2.5-year'' course.). The alumni revived the school in 1931 as Aichi Higher School of Pharmacy (), which had a 3-year course. In 1935 the school developed into . During World War II, shortage of fuel gas struck the college, and in 1946 the college was municipalized by Nagoya City and became coeducational. In 1949 the college was reorganized into new , under Japanese new educational system. In 1950 NPC was merged into NCU to constitute the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. The old campus of NPC is Takinomizu Park today (located in Midori-ku, Nagoya). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nagoya City University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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