page_title: Nagoya University
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Nagoya University / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Nagoya, Higashiyama Campus of Nagoya University. Toyoda Auditorium.
context_page_description: Nagoya University, abbreviated to Meidai, is a Japanese national university located in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya. It was the last Imperial University in Japan, one of the Designated National University and selected as a Top Type university of Top Global University Project by the Japanese government. It is the 3rd highest ranked higher education institution in Japan.
  As of 2014, six Nobel Prize winners have been associated with Nagoya University, the third most in Japan behind Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo.
context_section_description: Nagoya University traces its roots back to 1871 when it was a temporary medical school. In 1939 it became Nagoya Imperial University. In 1947 it was renamed Nagoya University, and became a Japanese national university. In 2004 it became a Japanese national university corporation.
  The ideal written in the Nagoya University academic charter is to encourage the intelligentsia with courage by providing an education which respects independent thought.
  In March 2012 the university played host to the International Symposium on Innovative Nanobiodevices.
caption: Nagoya University campus in Higashiyama. The university has produced six Nobel Prize laureates in science.
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