Nagoya City University, abbreviated to Meishidai, is a public university in Japan. The main campus is located in Mizuho-ku, Nagoya City. Other three campuses 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.
History
Nagoya City University was established in 1950 by merging two municipal universities: Nagoya City Women's Medical College and Nagoya Pharmaceutical College. 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
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. In 1947, after the war, the college became a university under Japan's older education system. In 1950 NCWMC was merged into NCU and became Medical School. The old campus of NCWMC is NCU Tanabe-dori Campus today. ;Nagoya Pharmaceutical College The origin of NPC was founded in 1884 as Nagoya School of Pharmacy. This was a private school run by Nagoya Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.. 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 alumni revived the school in 1931 as Aichi Higher School of Pharmacy, which had a 3-year course. In 1935 the school developed into Nagoya Pharmaceutical College. 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 Nagoya Pharmaceutical College, 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.
