Seiwa College

Seiwa College (聖和大学) was a private university in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan which was consolidated with Kwansei Gakuin University (関西学院大学) in 2009.

The predecessor of the school was founded in 1880 as a Congregational Women's Seminary in Kōbe by two missionaries from the US, Julia Elizabeth Dudley and Martha J. Burrows. It was in 1941 when by Holy Union three institutions including Methodist Lambuth Memorial Women's Seminary (ランバス記念伝道女学校) (founded 1888) and Nursing Course of Hiroshima Women's School (l広島女学校) (founded 1895) became Seiwa Women's School (聖和女子学院). Chartered as a university in 1950, and became a four-year college in 1964. The school closed in 2013.