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Kyoto University – The NO.25 of QS World University Rankings 2010

Kyoto University – The NO.25 of QS World University Rankings 2010. Every year QS World University Rankings will post a ranking of the world’s top 500 universities by Quacquarelli Symonds using a methodology since 2004.

As the NO.25 of QS World University Rankings 2010, Kyoto University has many different place and advantage from other University. Here are some data for Kyoto University from Quacquarelli Symonds:
Country        Size       Research  Focus  Score 
Japan           L           VH       FC    85.89

About Kyoto University: Kyoto University (京都大学, Kyōto daigaku?), or Kyodai (京大, Kyōdai?) is one of the major national universities located in Kyoto, Japan. It is the second oldest university in Japan, and formerly one of Japan’s Imperial Universities. It is considered to be the second most prestigious university in Japan. The university has about 22,000 students enrolled in its undergraduate and graduate programs.

The forerunner of the Kyoto University was the Chemistry School (舎密局, Seimikyoku?) founded in Osaka in 1869, which, despite its name, taught physics as well. (舎密 is a transcription of a Dutch word chemie.) Later, the Third Higher School (第三髙等學校, Daisan kōtō gakkō?) was established in the place of Seimi-kyoku in 1886, it then transferred to the university’s present main campus in the same year.

Kyoto Imperial University (京都帝國大學, Kyōto teikoku daigaku?) as a part of the Imperial University system was established on June 18, 1897, using the Third Higher School’s buildings. The higher school moved to a patch of land just across the street, where the Yoshida South Campus stands today. In the same year of the university’s establishment, the College of Science and Technology was founded. The College of Law and the College of Medicine were founded in 1899, the College of Letters in 1906, expanding the university’s activities to areas outside natural science.

After World War II, the current Kyoto University was established by merging the imperial university and the Third Higher School, which assumed the duty of teaching liberal arts as the Faculty of Liberal Arts (教養部, Kyōyōbu?). The faculty was dissolved with the foundation of the Faculty of Integrated Human Studies (総合人間学部, Sōgō ningen gakubu?) in 1992.

Kyoto University has since 2004 been incorporated as a national university corporation under a new law which applies to all national universities.

Despite the incorporation which has led to increased financial independence and autonomy, Kyoto University is still partly controlled by the Japanese Ministry of Education (文部科学省, Monbu kagaku shō?).

The University’s Department of Geophysics and their Disaster Prevention Research Institute are both represented on the national Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction.

The Kyoto University is so good and nice. In 2011, I think that Kyoto University will be much batter, it is very good University.

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Stepping the World – Japan – Kyoto

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