Chiba University

Chiba University, in Japanese the Chiba Daigaku and in everyday speech shortened to Chibadai, is a national university in Chiba Prefecture, a region on the edge of the Tokyo metropolitan area noted for its industrial, intellectual and international achievements.千叶大学（日语 Chiba Daigaku，口语简称 Chibadai）是位于千叶县的一所国立大学，千叶县地处东京都市圈边缘，以工业、学术与国际成就著称。

Its roots reach to 1872, when its earliest predecessor opened in the first year of Japan's modern school system, and it was reconstituted as a comprehensive national university in 1949, today holding eleven faculties, a university library and a university hospital.该校的源头可追溯至1872年日本近代学制初创之时其最早前身开学，并于1949年改组为综合性国立大学，现设十一个学部，并有大学图书馆与大学医院。

With 11,179 undergraduate students, some 2,354 in ten master's programmes and about 1,220 in nine doctoral programmes, it has long been among the larger national universities of Japan, and in the QS World University Rankings 2027 it sits in the 851-900 band.该校有本科生11179名，约2354名在读于十个硕士项目、约1220名在读于九个博士项目，长期跻身日本规模较大的国立大学之列，在2027年QS世界大学排名中位于第851-900档。

History

• The university was formally formed in 1949, when several existing educational institutions in Chiba Prefecture were merged into one comprehensive national university under the reform that created many new Japanese universities that same year.该校于1949年正式组建，当时千叶县数所既存教育机构被并入一所综合性国立大学，其依据正是当年促成众多日本新大学诞生的那场改革。

• In absorbing those earlier bodies the new university took in Chiba Medical University, first founded as Chiba Medical College in 1923, incorporated in 1949 and fully wound up as a separate entity by 1960.在吸纳这些早期机构时，新建大学并入了千叶医科大学，该校前身于1923年创设为千叶医学专门学校，1949年并入、1960年彻底结束其独立建制。

• It likewise absorbed the Chiba Normal School, a teacher-training institution founded in 1872 and closed as a separate body in 1951, the oldest of all the predecessor institutions.它同时并入了成立于1872年、1951年结束独立建制的千叶师范学校，这是一所培养师资的机构，也是所有前身中历史最久的一所。

• Among the merged predecessors was the Chiba Higher College of Horticulture, established in 1909, whose teaching and research descend directly into the university's present Graduate School of Horticulture.被合并的前身之一是1909年设立的千叶园艺高等专门学校，其教学与研究直接传承为大学今日的园艺学研究科。

• The new university also took in the Tokyo Polytechnic High School, founded in 1914 and folded into the merger in 1951, adding a long technical and applied strand to its curriculum.新建大学还吸纳了创立于1914年、1951年并入的东京工业高等学校，为其课程增添了深厚的技术与应用脉络。

• A preparatory department of the neighbouring Tokyo Medical and Dental University was another component absorbed into the institution during the years immediately after its 1949 foundation.邻近的东京医科齿科大学的一所预科也是该校在1949年创校后数年间接收的组成部分。

• The history of its Faculty of Medicine reaches back to 1874, when its earliest predecessor was founded as a private hospital supported by donations gathered from the local community.其医学部的历史可回溯至1874年，彼时其最早前身作为一所依靠本地社区捐款兴办的私立医院而创立。

• In 1876 that hospital became a prefectural institution with proper medical-teaching facilities and was given the name Chiba Public Hospital, marking its entry into public medicine.1876年该医院改为县立机构并配备正规的医学教学设施，命名为千叶公立医院，标志着其进入公共医学之列。

• In 1923 the same line of descent became the Chiba Medical College, which was then incorporated into the newly founded School of Medicine of Chiba University in 1949.1923年这一传承脉络成为千叶医学专门学校，随后于1949年被并入新设立的千叶大学医学部。

• Its Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences traces to a Department of Pharmacy founded in 1890 within the medical school of the First Senior High School, the oldest pharmaceutical faculty among Japan's national universities.其药学部的源头是1890年在第一高等中学医学部内设立的药学学科，是日本各国立大学中历史最悠久的药学部。

• The Faculty of Education dates back to 1872, the very year the modern educational system of Japan was established, and it therefore holds the longest continuous history within the university.教育学部可追溯至1872年，即日本近代学制确立之年，因而在大学内部拥有最长的连续历史。

• Graduate education in horticulture likewise reaches to 1909, when its horticultural predecessor was founded, and the discipline has made major academic and international contributions ever since.园艺学方向的研究生教育同样可上溯至其园艺前身创办的1909年，此后该学科持续作出重要的学术与国际贡献。

• In the era of Japanese higher-education corporatization the university was reincorporated as a national university corporation under the National University Corporation Act, a reform its own record gives as taking effect by 2010.在日本高教法人化时期，该校依《国立大学法人法》改组为国立大学法人，其自记材料将此项改革的生效记为至2010年完成。

• The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences was opened in 2016 as the tenth faculty of the university, its stated mission to address complex global issues that no single discipline can resolve alone.综合学术学群（College of Liberal Arts and Sciences）于2016年设立，为该校第十个学部，其宗旨是应对任何单一学科都无法独自解决的复杂全球议题。

• The Faculty of Informatics followed in April 2024 as the eleventh faculty, treating data science and information engineering as practical studies meant to solve problems and to build new industries from social data.情报学部于2024年4月作为第十一个学部成立，将数据科学与信息工程视为以社会数据解决问题、催生新产业的实务性研究。

• With the tenth and eleventh additions the undergraduate structure grew from the nine faculties cited in older summaries to the eleven faculties it reports today.随着第十与第十一个新学部的增设，其本科建制从旧有综述所称的九个学部扩展至今日所述的十一个学部。

• Its professional graduate layer broadened in step, with a Law School added in 2004 and a Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies opened in 2018.其专业研究生院层面同步拓宽，2004年增设法科大学院，2018年新设全球学跨学科研究科。

• Out of so many merged predecessors the university grew into one of the larger institutions in Japan, enrolling 11,179 undergraduates and more than 3,500 graduate students across its campuses.由如此众多的合并前身，该校成长为日本规模较大的院校之一，在各校区招收本科生11179名、研究生逾3500名。

• The 1949 reconstitution fell within a postwar wave in which a new national education law converted Japan's older three-year colleges into four-year universities across the country.1949年的改组正落在战后一股浪潮之中，其时一部新教育法把日本旧有的三年制专门学校整体改升为四年制大学。

Academics

• Undergraduate teaching is carried by eleven faculties, while the Graduate School of Horticulture remains the only faculty or graduate school in Japan known simply by the name of horticulture.本科教学由十一个学部承担，而园艺学研究科至今仍是全日本唯一以园艺学之名单独命名的学部或研究生院。

• The Faculty of Letters offers courses in national and international languages, literature, history, psychology, anthropology and in newer fields such as cross-cultural studies, information science and theoretical linguistics.文学部提供本国与外国语言、文学、历史、心理学、人类学等课程，并涵盖跨文化研究、信息科学与理论语言学等较新的领域。

• The Faculty of Education, the oldest strand of the university, takes its origin to 1872 and shares a doctoral programme in education with Tokyo Gakugei University, Saitama University and Yokohama National University.教育学部是该校最古老的脉络，起源于1872年，并与东京学艺大学、埼玉大学、横滨国立大学共同开设教育学博士项目。

• The Faculty of Law, Politics and Economics is the only faculty at Chiba University devoted to the social sciences, organized around four majors in law, economics, management and accounting, and politics and policy studies.法学政治经济理学部是千叶大学唯一专事社会科学的学部，下设法律、经济、经营与会计、政治与政策研究四个专业。

• Students enrolled in one of its four majors take courses offered by the others so as to reach a comprehensive and interdisciplinary grasp of the social phenomena before them.就读四个专业之一的学生会选修其他专业的课程，以求对所面对的社会现象获得全面而跨学科的理解。

• The Faculty of Science comprises five departments active in both teaching and research, offering programmes that range from introductory courses for beginners to pioneering sciences and their applications.理学部由五个兼具教学与研究的学科构成，课程从面向初学者的入门课一直延伸到前沿科学及其应用。

• The Faculty of Engineering consists of ten departments, among them architecture, urban environment systems, design, mechanical engineering, medical system engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and nanoscience.工学部由十个学科构成，包括建筑、都市环境系统、设计、机械工程、医疗系统工程、电气与电子工程以及纳米科学。

• The remaining engineering departments, applied chemistry and biotechnology, image science, and informatics and imaging systems, are staffed by academics who also teach in the two-year master's and three-year doctoral programmes of the Graduate School of Engineering.工学部其余学科，应用化学与生物技术、图像科学、信息与影像系统，其教师同时承担工学研究科两年制硕士与三年制博士课程的教学。

• The Faculty of Informatics, established in April 2024, focuses on data science and information engineering as practical studies aimed at solving problems and creating industries out of diverse social data.2024年4月设立的情报学部聚焦数据科学与信息工程，将其视为以多种社会数据解决问题、创造产业的实务性研究。

• The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences runs two departments, a six-year Department of Pharmacy whose graduates qualify to sit the national pharmacist's examination, and a four-year Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.药学部设两个学科，六年制药学学科毕业生有资格参加国家药剂师考试，另有四年制的药学科学学科。

• The School of Nursing offers a Bachelor of Science in Nursing together with an option for registered nurses holding an associate degree, its graduates qualifying for national licensure as nurses, public health nurses or midwives.看护学部提供护理学学士，并为持副学位的注册护士另设通道，其毕业生可取得护士、保健师或助产士的国家执业资格。

• Located on a scenic hill in Matsudo, the Graduate School of Horticulture teaches Horticulture, Food and Landscape across three domains, bioresource science, environment and landscape architecture, and food and resource economics.园艺学研究科坐落于松户市一座风景秀丽的小山之上，横跨园艺、食物与景观三大领域，即生物资源科学、环境与景观建筑、食物与资源经济学。

• That horticultural graduate school deliberately joins natural science to social science and the humanities, covering plant breeding, landscape design, human health, sustainable cities and development economics.这所园艺研究生院有意将自然科学同社会科学与人文学科结合，涵盖植物育种、景观设计、人类健康、可持续城市与发展经济学。

• Its nine graduate schools span humanities, public affairs, law, education, science and engineering, informatics, horticulture, medical and pharmaceutical sciences, nursing, and global and transdisciplinary studies.其九个研究生院横跨人文、公共事务、法律、教育、理工、情报、园艺、医药学、看护以及全球跨学科研究领域。

• Teaching and research across all these fields are supported by two central institutions, the university library and the university hospital, the latter anchoring the medical and pharmaceutical faculties at Inohana.所有这些领域的教学与科研都由两大中枢支撑，即大学图书馆与大学医院，后者在稻边校区为医学与药学部提供依托。

• The Faculty of Science spreads five departments across the natural sciences and their applications, aiming to form all-round scientists and experts useful to industry and to the community.理学部将五个学科分布于自然科学及其应用，意在培养对产业与社群都有用的全面科学家与专家。

• The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, opened as the tenth faculty, is charged both with solving complex global issues and with helping to shape a more cooperative global society.综合学术学群（College of Liberal Arts and Sciences）作为第十个学部设立，肩负解决复杂全球议题与协助塑造更具合作精神之全球社会的双重使命。

Campus

• Chiba University keeps five campuses, four of them within Chiba Prefecture and one in neighbouring Tokyo, spread across the urban and coastal landscape west of the capital.千叶大学拥有五个校区，其中四个位于千叶县内、一个在邻近的东京，散布于首都以西的城市与海岸地带。

• The main Nishi-Chiba campus is reached from either Nishi-Chiba Station or Midoridai Station and hosts the bulk of the undergraduate faculties and the central administration.本部西千叶校区可由西千叶站或绿台站抵达，容纳了大部分理学部与中枢行政机构。

• The Inohana campus, accessed from Hon-Chiba Station, is the home of the medical, pharmaceutical and nursing schools and of the affiliated University Hospital.稻边校区可由本千叶站抵达，是医学、药学、看护各学部及其附属医院所在地。

• The Matsudo campus, served by Matsudo Station, sits on a scenic hilltop and is devoted to the Graduate School of Horticulture and its landscape and food sciences.松户校区由松户站服务，坐落于一处风景秀丽的台地，专供园艺学研究科及其景观与食物科学使用。

• The Kashiwanoha campus, reached from Kashiwanoha-campus Station, lies within a planned research city designed to link the university with industry and with neighbouring institutes.柏之叶校区可由柏之叶校园站抵达，位于一座规划中的研究之城内，旨在将大学与产业界及邻近机构相连接。

• The fifth and most recent site, the Sumida campus, opened in the Sumida ward of Tokyo and is accessed from Oshiage Station or Higashi-Azuma Station, extending the university beyond Chiba Prefecture.第五处也是最新的据点隅田校区开在东京都隅田区，可由押上站或东向岛站抵达，将该校伸展至千叶县之外。

• Taken together the campus cluster spreads across coordinates near latitude 35.6 and longitude 140.11667, anchoring the university in one of Japan's most industrialized prefectures.诸校区整体散布在北纬35.6、东经140.11667附近，将大学扎根于日本工业化程度最高的县分之一。

• Beyond classrooms, the University Library and the University Hospital function as campus-wide facilities serving students and researchers at the several sites alike.除教室之外，大学图书馆与大学医院作为全校园设施，服务于各校区的学生与研究人员。

• The Kashiwanoha campus lies within a planned research city that gathers public and private laboratories together with the university on the northwestern side of the prefecture.柏之叶校区坐落于一座规划中的研究之城，在县域西北把公立与私营实验室同大学汇聚一处。

• The university keeps its central administration at the Nishi-Chiba campus, the site most students pass through daily for lectures, offices and campus services.该校将中枢行政设于西千叶校区，此校区是多数学生每日上课、办事与享受校园服务时必经之处。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Chiba University is placed in the 851-900 band of the global table, the position on which this entry is written.在2027年QS世界大学排名中，千叶大学列入全球第851-900档，本条目即据此档位撰写。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the university in the 1001-1200 band, a lower band than its 851-900 placing in the QS World University Rankings for the same year.2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将该校列入第1001-1200档，低于其同年QS世界大学排名的851-900档。

• In the US News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027 the institution is ranked at number 809 worldwide, its mid-table standing among the four global league tables consulted here.在2026-2027年度US News全球最佳大学排名中该校位列全球第809名，是本文所查四份世界榜单中的中游名次。

• The Academic Ranking of World Universities published by Shanghai Ranking placed Chiba in the 601-700 band of its 2026 edition, its strongest placing among the four world tables consulted here.软科世界大学学术排名2026年版将千叶列入第601-700档，是四份世界榜单中该校名次最高的一份。

• On the regional table the university was ranked 168th in the Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2019, a placing that reflected its high participation in international cooperative research projects.在地区榜单上，该校在泰晤士高等教育2019年亚洲大学排名第168位，此名次反映了其在国际科研合作项目中的高度参与。

• Its measurable scale and output are reflected in eleven faculties, five campuses and a student body of 11,179 undergraduates, about 2,354 master's students and about 1,220 doctoral students.其可计量的规模与产出见于十一个学部、五个校区与学生队伍，即本科生11179名、硕士生约2354名、博士生约1220名。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields-level affiliation is recorded for the university in the consulted material, so its standing rests on national firsts such as the only horticulture graduate school in Japan and the oldest pharmaceutical faculty among the national universities.所阅材料未见该校有诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖级的人物关联，其地位系于若干全国之最，即日本唯一的园艺研究生院与国立大学中最古老的药学部。

• International reach is measurable on the campuses as well, since by 2009 some 477 international researchers and 957 international students were already studying and working on its several sites.国际化程度在校区上同样可计量，至2009年已有约477名国际研究人员与957名国际学生在其各校区研习与工作。

• International cooperative research is a stated strength, with a large body of visiting scholars and overseas students carrying out joint projects across the several campuses of the university.国际科研合作是其明示的强项，大批访问学者与海外学生在该校各校区开展联合项目。

• By the Shanghai Ranking's 2026 table the university entered the 601-700 band, ahead of its 851-900 placing in the QS World University Rankings and its 1001-1200 placing in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for the same year.按软科2026年版榜单，该校进入第601-700档，名次优于其同年QS世界大学排名的851-900档与泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名的1001-1200档。

Student life

• As one of the larger Japanese national universities with 11,179 undergraduates, Chiba carries a broad and busy student community spread across its five campuses.作为拥有本科生11179名的日本规模较大的国立大学之一，千叶承载着遍布五个校区而多元繁忙的学生群体。

• Its most recent frontier of student life opened in the Sumida ward of Tokyo, where the newest campus places a portion of the university's daily activity inside the capital itself.校园生活的最新前沿在东京隅田区展开，新校区使该校一部分日常活动就坐落在首都之内。

• An international community of some 477 researchers and 957 students as of 2009 gave the campuses a persistent outward-facing and cooperative character.至2009年约477名研究人员与957名学生组成的国际群体，赋予各校区持久的外向与合作气质。

• Students in the health professions prepare for national licensure, nursing graduates qualifying as nurses, public health nurses or midwives and pharmacy graduates sitting the pharmacist's examination.医护专业的学生备考国家执业资格，护理学毕业生可取得护士、保健师或助产士资格，药学毕业生则参加药剂师考试。

• Those in the Graduate School of Horticulture study and live on the scenic Matsudo hilltop, an environment well suited to landscape, plant and food sciences.就读园艺学研究科的学生在风景宜人的松户台地研习与生活，此处环境极适于景观、植物与食物科学。

• A doctoral programme in education shared with Tokyo Gakugei University, Saitama University and Yokohama National University lets students of education move among four national universities.与东京学艺大学、埼玉大学、横滨国立大学共设的教育学博士项目，使教育方向的学生得以在四所国立大学间流动。

• Interdisciplinary student life is fostered by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and by the Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies, both aimed at complex problems beyond one field.综合学术学群与全球跨学科研究科共同培育跨学科的学生生活，二者皆以超越单一学科的复杂问题为目标。

• Beyond classroom study, students in horticulture, landscape and food sciences work on the open grounds of the Matsudo hill campus, an uncommon breadth among Japanese national universities.除课堂学习外，园艺、景观与食物科学方向的学生在松户山地的开阔场地上实践，这种广度在日本国立大学中颇为少见。

• With some 477 international researchers and 957 overseas students recorded by 2009, the campuses sustain a lasting outward-facing scholarly community alongside the local one.至2009年已记有约477名国际研究人员与957名海外学生，各校区在本地群体之外维系着一个持久的外向学术社群。

Notable people

• Nobuyoshi Araki, one of Japan's most prolific photographers, studied at the university in the technology of photograph and printing, graduating in 1963.日本最高产的摄影家之一的荒木经惟，在该校研习摄影与印刷技术，1963年毕业。

• Masanobu Endo, a video game designer and producer who came from the Faculty of Engineering, is remembered for shaping the early adventure and role-playing game industry in Japan.出身工学部的电子游戏设计师兼制作人远藤雅伸，以塑造日本早期的冒险与角色扮演游戏产业著称。

• Takashi Yanase, the cartoonist who also came from engineering, created the enduring children's character Anpanman while being educated at the university.同样出身工学的漫画家柳濑嵩，在该校求学期间创作了经久不衰的儿童形象面包超人。

• Taku Kishimoto, an anime screenwriter, carries the university's name in Japanese animation scripting.动画编剧岸本祚，以在日本动画剧本创作中的工作延续了该校的名声。

• Kayoko Okubo, a comedian and television personality, is an alumna of the Faculty of Letters.喜剧演员兼电视艺人大久保佳代子，是文学部的校友。

• Ai Aoki, a national politician, completed a course of study in the Faculty of Education.国会议员青木爱，完成了教育学部的学业。

• Norihisa Tamura, a politician who rose to serve as Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, took his degree from the university.后出任厚生劳动大臣的政治家村田宪孝，自该校取得学位。

• Tomisaku Kawasaki, the pediatrician whose name is carried by Kawasaki disease, was educated at the medical line of the university.儿科医生川崎富作，其姓氏被用作川崎病之名，早年受教于该校的医学脉络。

• Junichiro Ito served as director of the Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation at the National Institute of Mental Health after his studies at Chiba.伊藤顺一郎在千叶完成学业后，曾任国立精神神经研究中心精神康复部部长。

• Katsuichi Honda, a veteran journalist and war correspondent, graduated from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences.资深记者与战地通讯员本田胜一，毕业于药学部。

• Naoshi Mizuta, a video game music composer, is an alumnus of the Faculty of Law, Politics and Economics.电子游戏音乐作曲家水田直志，是法学政治经济理学部的校友。