is a

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in the city of

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Gifu Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Gifu Prefecture has a population of 1,910,511 () and has a geographic area of . Gifu Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture to the north; Ishikawa Prefecture ...

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. It is sometimes abbreviated as Gidai () or Gifudai ().

National University Corporation

The Tokai National Higher Education and Research System established by integrating with

Nagoya University , abbreviated to or NU, is a Japanese national research university located in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya. It was established in 1939 as the last of the nine Imperial Universities in the then Empire of Japan, and is now a Designated National Universit ...

in April 2020, both are major universities in

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Faculties and graduate schools

The following undergraduate and graduate degree programs and courses are offered on the Yanagido campus.

Faculties

* Faculty of Education *

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* School of Medicine * Faculty of Engineering * Faculty of Applied

Biological Sciences Biology is the scientific study of life and living organisms. It is a broad natural science that encompasses a wide range of fields and unifying principles that explain the structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution of ...

* Faculty of Social System Management

Graduate schools

* Graduate

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* Graduate School of Regional Studies * Graduate School of Medicine * Graduate School of Engineering * Graduate School of

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* United Graduate School of

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* : Shizuoka University joined with Gifu University in establishing this united graduate school. * Joint Graduate School of Veterinary Sciences * : Tottori University joined with Gifu University in establishing this joint graduate school. GIFU-U hospital

* United Graduated School of Drug Discovery and Medical Information Science * :

Gifu Pharmaceutical University is a municipal university located in the city of Gifu, Gifu, Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The school's predecessor was founded in 1932 and chartered as a university in 1949.''Gifu-shi no Ayumi (Outline of Gifu City 2005)''. Gifu City Hall, April ...

joined with Gifu University in establishing this united graduate school.

Notable people

Business

* Toichi Takenaka, President and CEO of Astellas Pharma * Fumio Sugimori, President and CEO of

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Electron Tubes & Devices

Law and politics

* Kenji Manabe, Minister of the Environment (1998–1999)

Research

* Sachi Sri Kantha, Associate Professor, Gifu University

Other

* * Akira Komoto, artist

Gifu University in Asia

According to the 2025

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, Gifu University was ranked 359th in Asia and 1001-1200 in the world.

Directions to Gifu University

;Yanagido Campus * JR Gifu Station or Meitetsu Gifu Station to Gifu University: 30 minutes ( Gifu Bus

or car) :* JR

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to JR Gifu Station: 18 minutes (JR

Tōkaidō Line Tōkaidō may refer to: * Taiheiyō Belt (also Tōkaidō corridor), the megalopolis in Japan extending from Ibaraki Prefecture to Fukuoka Prefecture * Tokaido (company), a Japanese company that manufactures karate uniforms, belts, and related pro ...

) :*

Meitetsu Nagoya Station is the principal railway station, station of the Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu) system in Nagoya, Japan. Most trains of Meitetsu's major lines operate through this station. The station is also a gateway to the Chubu Centrair International Ai ...

to Meitetsu Gifu Station: 30 minutes ( Meitetsu Nagoya Line) * Gifu-Hashima Station (

Tōkaidō Shinkansen The is a Japanese high-speed rail line that is part of the nationwide Shinkansen network. Along with the San'yō Shinkansen, it forms a continuous high-speed railway through the Taiheiyō Belt, also known as the Tokaido corridor. Opening in 19 ...

) to Gifu University: 40 minutes (Car) * Chūbu Centrair International Airport (nearest airport) to Meitetsu Gifu Station: 55 minutes ( Meitetsu Airport Line

)

Note

References

External links

Official website
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