Hyogo University

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Hyogo University
兵庫大学

Type	Private
Established	Founded 1921 Chartered 1995
President	Hideko Ohmura
Academic staff	90 full-time
Location	Kakogawa , Hyōgo , Japan
Campus	Suburb
Website	www.hyogo-dai.ac.jp/

Hyogo University (兵庫大学, Hyōgo daigaku) is a private university in Japan. Its campus is located in Shinzaike, Hiraoka-cho, Kakogawa, Hyōgo Prefecture. The university is one of the seven schools run by Mutsumi Gakuen (睦学園), a school foundation with a Buddhist background (Nishi Hongwanji denomination).

History

Mutsumi Gakuen

1921: Taishi Sunday School was started in memory of the 1300th anniversary of Shotoku Taishi's death.
1923: Suma Taishi Hall was opened in Suma-ku, Kobe, to which the Training Course of Sewing (a girls' school) was attached.
1937: Suma Taishi Hall Foundation was incorporated. The foundation established Suma Mutsumi Girls' Vocational School (Sumanoura Girls' High School today).
1951: The school foundation was renamed Mutsumi Gakuen.
1955: The school foundation established Mutsumi Gakuen Women's Junior College.
1966: The junior college was renamed Hyogo Women's Junior College, moving from Suma-ku, Kobe to Kakogawa.

Hyogo University

1995: Mutsumi Gakuen established Hyogo University.
- with one faculty: Faculty of Economics and Information Science
1998: The junior college was reorganized into the Junior College Department of Hyogo University.
1999: Graduate School of Economics and Information Science was established.
2001: The Faculty of Health Science was added.
- with Departments of Nutrition Management and Health System Management
2006: The Department of Nursing was added.

Faculties (Undergraduate schools)

Faculty of Economics and Information Science
Faculty of Health Science
- Department of Nutrition Management
- Department of Health System Management
- Department of Nursing
Faculty of Welfare Society