, abbreviated to OMU, is a Japanese

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that was established through the integration of

Osaka City University , abbreviated to , was a public university in Japan. It was located in Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka. The university merged with Osaka Prefecture University to form Osaka Metropolitan University in April 2022. History OCU's predecessor was founded in ...

(OCU) and

Osaka Prefecture University (OPU), also abbreviated to , used to be one of the largest public universities in Japan. The university merged with Osaka City University to form Osaka Metropolitan University in April 2022. History OPU was established in 2005 in its curren ...

(OPU) on 1 April 2022. OMU was inaugurated with 1 undergraduate college, 11 undergraduate schools and 15 graduate schools. With the integration of the two universities, the number of students amounts to about 16,000, which is the largest scale in Japan as a public university. In addition, OMU's number of new first-year students per year is 2,853, placing it in third place among Japanese national/public universities, after

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and the

University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

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Campus

Osaka Metropolitan University has 7 campuses in Osaka. † = from former OPU ‡ = from former OCU *Morinomiya Main Campus, to be completed in 2025. *Nakamozu Campus† *Habikino Campus† *Rinku Campus† *Sugimoto Campus‡ *Abeno Campus‡ *Umeda Satellite‡

Schools and divisions

Undergraduate Schools

* College of Sustainable System Sciences (現代システム科学域) * School of Literature and Human Sciences (文学部) * School of Law (法学部) * School of Economics (経済学部) * School of Business (商学部) * School of Science (理学部) * School of Engineering (工学部) * School of Agriculture (農学部) * School of Veterinary Science (獣医学部) * School of Medicine (医学部) * School of Nursing (看護学部) * School of Human Life and Ecology (生活科学部)

Graduate Schools

* Graduate School of Sustainable System Sciences (現代システム科学研究科) * Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences (文学研究科) * Graduate School of Law (法学研究科) * Graduate School of Economics (経済学研究科) * Graduate School of Business (経営学研究科) * Graduate School of Science (理学研究科） * Graduate School of Engineering （工学研究科) * Graduate School of Agriculture (農学研究科) * Graduate School of Veterinary Science (獣医学研究科) * Graduate School of Medicine (医学研究科) * Graduate School of Rehabilitation Science (リハビリテーション学研究科) * Graduate School of Nursing (看護学研究科) * Graduate School of Human Life and Ecology (生活科学研究科) * Graduate School of Urban Management (都市経営研究科) * Graduate School of Informatics (情報学研究科)

Other Institutions

* Osaka Metropolitan University Hospital * Botanical Gardens School of Science Osaka Metropolitan University

Notable people

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Kazuhiko Nishijima (4 October 1926 – 15 February 2009) was a Japanese physicist who made significant contributions to particle physics. He was professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University until his death in 2009. He was born in Tsuchiu ...

(西島和彦), physicist, professor at OCU, 1960-61

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Yoichiro Nambu was a Japanese-American physicist and professor at the University of Chicago. Known for his groundbreaking contributions to theoretical physics, Nambu was the originator of the theory of spontaneous symmetry breaking, a concept that revoluti ...

(南部陽一郎), physicist, professor at OCU, 2008

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Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate. He is a professor and the director emeritus of Center for iPS Cell (induced Pluripotent Stem Cell) Research and Application, Kyoto University; as a senior investigator at the U ...

(山中伸弥), stem cell researcher, receive a PhD from OCU, 2012

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Kōno Taeko Kōno Taeko (河野多惠子, February 24, 1926 – January 29, 2015) was a Japanese writer who was active during the latter half of the 20th century. Kōno belonged to a generation of female Japanese writers who became more well-known in the 1 ...

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Keigo Higashino is a Japanese author chiefly known for his mystery novels. He served as the 13th President of Mystery Writers of Japan from 2009 to 2013. Higashino has won major Japanese awards for his books, almost twenty of which have been turned into films ...

(東野圭吾), OPU alumni, Japanese author chiefly known for his mystery novels.

References

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