Kinjo Gakuin University

Kinjo Gakuin University (金城学院大学) is a private women's university in Moriyama-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1889. It was chartered as a university in 1949.

Kinjo Gakuin University has 14 undergraduate departments and majors covering a wide range of fields — from human/social science to natural science — and a graduate school in the humanities and in human ecology offering master's and doctoral degrees.

Milestones

 * 1889 Kinjo Girls' School (a private school) established
 * 1927 Kinjo Girls' Vocational School established
 * 1947 Under educational system reform, Kinjo Gakuen Junior High School established
 * 1948 School renamed
 * 1949 Kinjo Gakuin University (College of English Literature) established
 * 1954 College of English Literature reorganized to Faculty of Literature
 * 1962 College of Home Economics (present-day Human Life and Environment) established
 * 1967 Graduate School of Humanities established
 * 1996 Graduate School of Human Ecology established
 * 1997 College of Contemporary Society and Culture established
 * 2002 College of Human Sciences established
 * 2005 College of Pharmacy established