Meiji University (明治大学, Meiji Daigaku) is a privateresearch university in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Originally founded as Meiji Law School (明治法律学校, Meiji Hōritsu Gakkō) by three lawyers in 1881, it became a university in April 1920.[1]
As of May 2023, Meiji has 32,261 undergraduate students and 2,635 postgraduate students.[2] The university consists of 10 undergraduate, 12 graduate, and 4 professional graduate schools, and operates on four campuses around the Greater Tokyo Area: Surugadai, Izumi, Ikuta, and Nakano. The university is known to be a promoter of student exchanges, with its first partner agreement in 1986 with York University in Canada, and it currently partners with 376 universities and institutions in 59 countries.[3]
Meiji University is the country's most applied-to university, with applications to its undergraduate degrees amounting to approximately 100,000 annually.[4] Meiji is a part of the Top Global University Project of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.[5] The university is famous for its high athletic standards, with its varsity teams belonging to top-tier intercollegiate athletic associations in Japan and consistently winning national competitions. As of 2021, 270 Meiji alumni have competed in the Olympics, garnering 40 medals: 14 gold, 13 silver, and 13 bronze.[6]
The university announced on February 26, 2009, that it would open a museum dedicated to anime and manga.[9] It will include international research centers hosting Japanese and international scholars as well as a large quality of artifacts on the subject.
The Nikkei Shimbun on 16 February 2004 surveyed about the research standards in engineering studies based on Thomson Reuters, Grants in Aid for Scientific Research and questionnaires to heads of 93 leading Japanese Research Centers, and Meiji was placed 37th in this ranking.[23]
Meiji has filed the 62nd highest number of patents in the nation as its research outcomes.[24]
Graduate school rankingsedit
Meiji Law School is considered one of the top Japanese law schools, as Meiji's number of successful candidates for Japanese bar examination has been 14th and 20th in 2009 and 2010 respectively.[25] It is one of the strongest department in this university as the cumulative number of people qualified as lawyer and prosecutor has been historically sixth after WW2.[26]
Eduniversal ranked Meiji as fourth in the rankings of "Excellent Business Schools nationally strong and/or with continental links" in Japan.[27]
Meiji University is one of the top 10 private universities in Japan.[28]
Alumni rankingsedit
Graduates from Meiji enjoy good success in the Japanese industries.
According to the Weekly Economist's 2010 rankings, graduates from Meiji University have the 35th best employment rate in 400 major companies[29]
The university is also ranked sixth in Japan for the number of alumni holding the position of executive in the listed companies of Japan, and this number per student (probability of becoming an executive) is 25th.[30][31]
Meiji graduates have been ranked fifth in Japan in the number of successful national CPA exam applicants.[32] Its graduates have been also ranked ninth in Japan in the number of successful Architect Registration exam applicants.[33]
Furthermore, the number of Members of Parliament who graduated Meiji is sixth in Japan.[34]
Popularity and selectivityedit
Meiji is a popular university in Japan. The number of applicants per place was 24.9 (113,905/4,582) in the 2011 undergraduate admissions, this number of applicants (113,905) was largest in 2011.[35][36] Its entrance difficulty is also very selective.[37][38]
Meiji university is regarded as comparable with the Tokyo-area private universities Aoyama Gakuin, Rikkyo, Chuo, and Hosei, collectively called "MARCH".
It has an entrance examination difficulty level that is in the top 10 for a private university in Japan.
Alumniedit
Politicsedit
World leadersedit
The 66th Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Miki (1974–1976)
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^Japanese journalist Kiyoshi Shimano ranks its entrance difficulty as A1 (2nd most selective/out of 10 scales) in Japan. 危ない大学・消える大学 2012年版 (in Japanese). YELL books. 2011. ASIN 4753930181.
^Awarded an honorary Bachelor of Science in engineering in 2004, 34 years after he dropped out to pursue his career in entertainment.[citation needed]
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