Nagoya University

Nagoya University (名古屋大学 city daigaku?), abbreviated to Meidai (名大?), could be a Japanese national university headquartered in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya. it's the last Imperial University in Japan and among the National Seven Universities. it's the third best stratified educational activity establishment in Japan (77th worldwide).

As of 2014, the university has made six award winners in science, it absolutely was the third most in Japan behind urban center University and therefore the University of Tokyo.

Nagoya University traces its roots back to 1871 once it absolutely was a brief graduate school. In 1939 it became city Imperial University. In 1947 it absolutely was renamed city University, and have become a Japanese national university. In 2004 it became a Japanese national university corporation.

The ideal written within the city University tutorial charter is to encourage the elite group with spirit by providing associate degree education that respects freelance thought.

In March 2012 the university vie host to the International conference on Innovative Nanobiodevices.
While the bulk of its students return from Tōkai region, city University incorporates a sensible portion of scholars from everywhere Japan.

It additionally receives several students from abroad. presently there square measure over 1300 foreign students (150 undergraduate) from seventy eight countries finding out within the colleges of city University. the bulk of them square measure from China (47%, as of First of May, 2009) and Korean Peninsula (9.5%). Among alternative countries, Taiwan, Indonesia, Viet Nam, Malaysia, Asian nation and Uzbek square measure delineated  by over thirty students. The u.  s. and Brazil with sixteen students every square measure the foremost delineated  non-Asian countries.