History

Updated on Monday, April 3, 2023
2019 | April | School name changed to Kyoto University of Advanced Sciences Masafumi Maeda becomes President Kyoto Ohata Campus West Wing opens |
2020 | February | Kyoto Ohata Campus South Wing completed International Student Dormitory Ohata A completed |
2020 | April | Faculty of Engineering (Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering) opened. Graduate School of Engineering (Mechanical and Electrical Systems Engineering) opened Five faculties and 11 departments |
2021 | April | Merged with Kyoto Kougaku Gakuen Educational Corporation Kyoto Gakuen Junior & Senior High School changed its name to Kyoto Institute of Science Junior & Senior High School Kyoto Gakuen Kindergarten and Nursery School under the umbrella of Nagamori Gakuen Educational Corporation changed its name to Midori-no-oka Kindergarten and Nursery School attached to Kyoto University of Advanced Science and Technology |
2022 | April | Graduate School of Business Administration, Department of Business Administration, Business School opened. |
2023 | March | Open Innovation Center Kameoka opens. |
1969 | April | Kyoto Gakuen University opens Faculty of Economics (Department of Economics and Business Administration) Fumichichi Ohata becomes the first president of the university. |
1973 | October | Minoru Nakatani becomes the second president |
1981 | October | Competing Tasugi becomes the 3rd President |
1987 | March | Takeshi Mizuno becomes the 4th President |
1989 | April | Faculty of Law (Department of Law) established. |
1990 | March | Keiichi Kiuchi becomes the 5th President |
1991 | April | Faculty of Business Administration (Department of Business Administration) established. Faculty of Economics (Department of Business Administration) reorganized. |
1992 | April | Institute of Business Science established |
1994 | April | Graduate School of Law (Master of Business Law) established |
1995 | April | Graduate School of Economics (Master’s Program in Regional Policy) and Graduate School of Business Administration (Master’s Program in Business Administration) established. |
1996 | March | Isao Denda becomes the 6th President |
1999 | April | Faculty of Humanities (Department of Human Relations and Cultural Communication) established |
July | Business Science Research Institute renamed Research Institute | |
2001 | June | Psychology and Education Counseling Office (Katsura Center) established. |
2002 | March | Toru Kaihara becomes the 7th President. |
April | Faculty of Business Administration (Department of Business Planning) opened. Graduate School of Humanities (Master’s Course in Humanities) established. | |
2004 | April | Department of Culture and Communication Studies in the Faculty of Humanities is renamed the Department of Media and Culture Studies. |
2006 | April | Faculty of Bio-Environment (Department of Bioscience and Bio-Environment Design) is established. Susumu Hatano becomes the 8th President |
July | Liaison Center established | |
2008 | April | Reorganized the Departments of Human Relations and Media Culture in the Faculty of Humanities, Department of Psychology, Department of Media and Society, and Department of History, Folklore, and Japanese Language and Culture were established. |
2009 | April | Department of International Human Communication is established in the Faculty of Humanities. |
June | 40th anniversary commemorative forum held | |
2010 | April | Graduate School of Bio-Environmental Studies (Master’s and Doctoral Programs in Bio-Environmental Studies) opened Graduate School of Economics (Master’s Course in Economics) renamed as the Department of Economics. Takao Uchiyama appointed as the 9th President |
2015 | April | Kyoto Ohata Campus opened Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (Department of Economics, Department of Business Administration), Faculty of Health and Medical Care (Department of Nursing, Department of Speech-Language Pathology, Department of Health and Sports), Faculty of Humanities (Department of Psychology, Department of History and Culture), Faculty of Bio-Environment (Department of Food and Agriculture) opened Soichi Shinohara becomes the 10th president of the university |
2015 | September | Location of university headquarters changed to 18, Sannouchi Gotanda-cho, Ukyo-ku, Kyoto |
Renewal date: Monday, April 3, 2023