, abbreviated to , is a national university in

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. The main campus is located in Koyamachō-Minami,

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. Another campus, the Faculty of Medicine, is located on the Yonago Campus in

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History

Tottori University (TU) was established in 1949 by integrating five national colleges in Tottori Prefecture: #, established in 1948, #, founded in 1945, #, founded in 1920 as Tottori Agricultural College, #, founded in 1874, also known as the Tottori Teachers Training Institute, # The university at first had three faculties: the Faculties of Liberal Arts (in Tachikawa-cho Campus), Medicine (in Yonago Campus) and Agriculture (in Yoshikata Campus). The latter history of the university is as follows: * 1965: the Faculty of Engineering was established (in Tachikawa-cho Campus). * 1966: the Faculty of Liberal Arts was renamed Faculty of Education. ** In August 1966 the Faculties of Education, Engineering and Agriculture were removed to the new-born Koyama Campus, which is now the main Tottori Campus. ** The former Tachikawa-cho and Yoshikata Campuses are now used as

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and

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factories. * 1999: the Faculty of Education was reorganized into Faculty of Education and Regional Sciences. * 2004: the Faculty of Education and Regional Sciences was reorganized into Faculty of Regional Sciences.

Organization

Faculties (undergraduate schools)

* Faculty of Regional Sciences * Faculty of Medicine (in Yonago Campus) * Faculty of Engineering * Faculty of Agriculture

Graduate schools

* Graduate School of Regional Sciences (Master's courses only) * Graduate School of Medical Sciences (Yonago Campus) * Graduate School of Engineering * Graduate School of Agriculture (Master's courses only) * United Graduate School of Agricultural Science (Doctoral courses only) ** Participants are Tottori,

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and Yamaguchi Universities. * United Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine (Doctoral courses only) ** Participants are Yamaguchi, Tottori, Miyazaki and

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Universities.

Facilities

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Institutes and related facilities

Tottori University Arid Land Research Center

*The dates to 1923. As Tottori College of Agriculture and Forestry was located near the

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, its main task included the study of agriculture on dry or sandy land. In 1923 it opened a test field by the sand dunes. The tradition is followed by the TU Faculty of Agriculture and the research center. *The university's Geospheric Structure and Dynamics Laboratory is represented on the national

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General rankings

Tottori university ranked 30th of Japan's top 300 universities in 2014 in the ranking "

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. In another ranking, the university ranked 44th in Japan in the ranking by

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among 730 universities in 2013–2014.

References

External links

Official Website

Official Website
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