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national university A national university is mainly a university created or managed by a government, but which may also at the same time operate autonomously without direct control by the state. In the United States, the term "national university" connotes the highe ...

Saga Sagas are prose stories and histories, composed in Iceland and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Scandinavia. The most famous saga-genre is the (sagas concerning Icelanders), which feature Viking voyages, migration to Iceland, and feuds between ...

Saga Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu. Saga Prefecture has a population of roughly 780,000 and has a geographic area of . Saga Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the northeast and Nagasaki Prefect ...

, Japan. The university has five faculties with around 7,000 students. Its two campuses are in and .

History

The history of Saga University is complicated. The oldest Saga teacher's school was demoted to a prefectural school by the law of teacher's schools. started in 1920. This high school is the origin of Saga University. Then, and started in 1943-1944. These schools were named "Saga University" in 1949. started in 1976. Saga University and Saga Medical School merged in 2003. And the National University was corporatised in 2004.

Campus locations

* Campus: Honjo, Saga City * Campus: Nabeshima, Saga City

Faculties and graduate schools

Faculties

* Campus **Culture and Education **

Economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...

**Science and Engineering **Agriculture * Campus **Medicine

Graduate schools

* Campus **Education (Master's programme) **Economics (Master's programme) **Engineering (Master's and Doctorate programme) **Agriculture (Master's programme) * Campus **Medicine (Master's and Doctorate programme) *Other **The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University (Doctorate programme)

Exchange program

Saga University offers an exchange program called SPACE (Saga University Program for Academic Exchange). SPACE is a one-year program, with its main purpose to increase the exchange student's Japanese skills. SPACE offers independent study that allows the exchange student to conduct a simple research project with a professor.

Ranking

From "World Universities' ranking on the Web: top 4,000 World Ranking." in July 2008, Saga University (Japan) was ranked 1298.

Alumni

* Muhammed Alamgir (geotechnical engineer and university vice-chancellor) * Heiji Ogawa (Japanese governor) * Hiroshi Tanaka (researcher) * Jianbo Chen (researcher) * Kozueko Morimoto (cartoonist)

References

External links

Saga University website
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