The school was established in 1862 and provides university education in 1949. The history of the school can be traced back to Jiahefan Vaccination Institute 1862. Now Kanazawa University is a comprehensive university with a new system based on the merger of Ishikawa Normal University, Kanazawa Medical University, the fourth institution of higher learning and Kanazawa Institute of Technology in 1949.
The school has humanities department, law department, economics department, education department, regional creativity department, international department, mathematics department, material chemistry department, department of mechanical engineering department, electronic information department, environmental design engineering department, natural system department, medicine department, pharmacy department, health care department and so on 15 departments, with a huge scale.
Kanazawa University, as a key university in Japanese waters, is also the strongest institution in Hokuriku, Japan. It constantly improves the quality of undergraduate and postgraduate education, devotes itself to the deepening, expansion and synthesis of research, and has made great contributions to Japanese higher education and world academic research.
In the ranking of Asian universities in 2020 QS, Kanazawa University ranked 129 in Asia and 58 1-590 in 2020QS World University. In 20 19, Times Higher Education ranked 18 in the ranking of Japanese universities. In the 2020QS World University Ranking, Kanazawa University ranks 57 1-580 in the world.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Kanazawa University