The were founded by the
Empire of Japan between 1886 and 1939, seven in
Mainland Japan (now
Japan), one in
Korea under Japanese rule (now the
Republic of Korea) and one in
Taiwan under Japanese rule
The island of Taiwan, together with the Penghu Islands, became a dependency of Japan in 1895, when the Qing dynasty ceded Fujian-Taiwan Province in the Treaty of Shimonoseki after the Japanese victory in the First Sino-Japanese War. The sho ...
(now
Taiwan). They were run by the imperial government until the end of
World War II.
Today, the Imperial Universities are often described as the , and are viewed as some of the most prestigious in Japan. These former imperial universities are generally perceived as Japan's equivalent of the
Ivy League
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in the United States,
Golden Triangle
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Places
Asia
* Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia), named for its opium production
* Golden Triangle (Yangtze), China, named for its rapid economic development
* Golden Triangle (India), comprising the popular tourist ...
in the United Kingdom, and the
C9 League
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in China. The alumni club of these nine imperial universities is .
Unlike
Taihoku Imperial University
National Taiwan University (NTU; ) is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan.
The university was founded in 1928 during Japanese rule as the seventh of the Imperial Universities. It was named Taihoku Imperial University and served d ...
(renamed in 1945 to National Taiwan University) in
then-Japanese Taiwan, the
Keijō Imperial University in
then-Japanese Korea was closed by the
United States Army Military Government in Korea (USAMGIK) with U.S. Military Ordinance No. 102.
Seoul National University was built by merging nine schools in Seoul and the remaining properties of Keijō Imperial University (Kyŏngsŏng University). The National Taiwan University and Seoul National University are today among the most prestigious universities of Taiwan and Korea.
Members
History
Athletic competition
The athletic competition started among these seven schools in Japan under the sponsorship of
Hokkaido University, formerly known as in 1962. Its name was later recoined as in 2002. The competition is commonly called the or the .
Long-awaited overall victory in Nanadai-sen
(University of Tokyo)
See also
* Higher school (Japan)
* Designated National University is a corporate body (legal entity) established under the provisions of the ''National University Corporation Act'' (2003) for the purpose of establishing a national university in Japan.
History
As part of promoting the reform of Japanese univer ...
* Ancient universities
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in the UK
* Group of Eight, formal group of eight universities in Australia
* Institutes of National Importance, group of premier universities in India
* TU9
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Overview
TU9 was established in 2003 as a ...
, alliance of nine leading Technical Universities
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in Germany
* 4TU, federation of four leading technical universities in The Netherlands
* Double First Class Universities, Chinese state group of elite universities in China
* SKY (universities)
SKY is an acronym used to refer to the three most prestigious universities in South Korea: Seoul National University, Korea University, and Yonsei University. The term is widely used in South Korea, both in media and by the universities themse ...
, group of prestigious Korean universities
References
{{National_Seven_Universities
Japanese national universities
Lists of universities and colleges in Japan
College and university associations and consortia in Asia