Kyoto Institute of Technology (京都工芸繊維大学, Kyōto Kōgei Sen'i Daigaku) in Kyoto, Japan is a Japanese national university established in 1949. The Institute's history extends back to two schools, Kyoto Craft High School (established in 1902 at Sakyo-ku, Yoshida) and Kyoto Sericulture Training School (established in 1899 at Kita-ku, Daishogun, under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce), which were forerunners of the Faculty of Engineering and Design and the Faculty of Textile Science, respectively. The former was moved to Sakyo-ku, Matsugasaki in 1930 and changed its name to Kyoto Industrial High School in 1944. The latter developed into Kyoto Sericulture High School, under supervision of the Ministry of Education in 1914, and changed its name to Kyoto Sericulture Technical High School in 1931 and then to Kyoto Technical High School of Sericulture in 1944. The two forerunners merged in 1949, due to educational system revisions, to establish the present School of Science and Technology. Together with Shinshu University and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, the Institute is one of Japan's three historical centers of textile research.
Kyoto Institute of Technology has a campus at Matsugasaki in Sakyō-ku. Another campus is at Saga in Ukyō-ku. Its Japanese nickname is Kōsen (工繊). In English it is known as KIT.
Beginning in October 2007, graduate course instruction became available in English through the International Program for Science and Technology for specially selected students from the 50 institutions worldwide with KIT Exchange Agreements.
Statisticsedit
2,968 undergraduates (23% women) and 1110 graduate students (23% women), 170 of whom are international students from 30 countries, comprised the student body as of May 1, 2011. From 2008 to 2009, 330 KIT researchers traveled abroad and 175 researchers came to KIT from abroad.[1]
Programsedit
Undergraduate programsedit
Applied Biology
Biomolecular Engineering
Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Chemistry and Materials Technology
Electronics
Information Science
Mechanical and System Engineering
Design Engineering and Management
Architecture and Design
Integrated Science and Technology (evening programs in Bioscience, Nanomaterial Science, Mechatronics Technology and Information Design Technology)
The university graduate school, established in 1988, awards master's and doctoral degrees in science and technology.
^http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110004659876/en A STUDY ON WORKS, ACTIVITIES AND ARCHITECTURAL IDEAS OF SEIGO MOTONO IN 'THE INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN' [in Japanese] Retrieved 2011-06-24.
^http://eng.archinform.net/arch/15534.htm Retrieved 2011-06-30 (Noa Building in the Azabudai area of Tokyo, 1974, by Seiichi Shirai.
^"Goichi Takeda" (PDF). 15 February 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2015-04-13.
^Watanabe, H. (2001). The Architecture of Tokyo: An Architectural History in 571 Individual Presentations. Edition Axel Menges. p. 110. ISBN 9783930698936. Retrieved 2015-04-13.
^"The Japan Times - News on Japan, Business News, Opinion, Sports, Entertainment and More". search.japantimes.co.jp. Retrieved 2015-04-13.
^"DPI - Dutch Polymer Institute - Events archive". Archived from the original on 2011-10-03. Retrieved 2015-04-13.
^"Dear users of our former global web site | JEOL Ltd". jeol.com. Retrieved 2015-04-13.
^"WARO KISHI + K.ASSOCIATES/Architects". Archived from the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2011-06-17.