Gunma University

Gunma University is a national university in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, with campuses in Maebashi and Kiryu, established in 1949 by integrating four older institutions of medicine, engineering and teacher training.群马大学是日本群马县的国立大学，校区分布于前桥市与桐生市，1949 年由医学、工学与师范三类共四所旧制学校整合而成。

It teaches through the Cooperative Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Social and Information Studies, the Faculty of Informatics, the School of Medicine and the School of Science and Technology.学校通过共同教育学部、社会信息学部、信息学部、医学部与理工学部开展教学。

Gunma University sits in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, in the 1601-1800 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 and at 1,975 in the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027, with 52,488 works and 2,812,416 citations in OpenAlex.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1201-1400 区间，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列 1601-1800 区间，在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名中列第 1975 位，OpenAlex 收录其论文 52,488 篇、被引 2,812,416 次。

History

• In February 1873 the Gunma prefectural government opened a training centre for elementary school teachers in Maebashi, the institution from which the university's education faculty descends.1873 年 2 月，群马县在前桥开设小学教员讲习所，这所学校是群马大学教育学部的最初源头，其设立与明治政府 1872 年颁布学制、推行国民教育的背景直接相关。
• In June 1873 the prefecture was merged into Kumagaya Prefecture, and the centre was renamed Chohatsu School and moved first to Honjo and then to Kumagaya.1873 年 6 月，群马县并入熊谷县，讲习所改称畅发学校，先后迁往本庄与熊谷。
• In September 1876 the school moved to Takasaki and took the name Normal School of Gunma Prefecture, after the prefecture was re-established in August of that year.1876 年 9 月，群马县于是年 8 月重新设立，学校随之迁至高崎并改称群马县师范学校。
• In October 1876 it moved once more to Maebashi, which remained the home of the normal school and later of the university's education faculty.1876 年 10 月，学校再次迁回前桥，此后前桥一直是师范学校乃至大学教育学部的所在地。
• In 1901 a Gunma Girls' Normal School was established separately, and the prefectural normal school became a boys' institution until the two were merged in 1943.1901 年，群马县另设女子师范学校，原县立师范学校成为男子校，两校直到 1943 年才合并。
• In 1915 the Kiryu Higher Dyeing and Weaving Vocational School was founded in Kiryu, a town whose economy rested on textile manufacturing, and it became the seed of the engineering faculty.1915 年，桐生高等染织学校在以纺织业为经济支柱的桐生町创办，它后来成为群马大学工学部的雏形。
• In 1920 the school was renamed Kiryu Technical College and added a department of applied chemistry, with departments of mechanics and electronics following later.1920 年，该校改称桐生高等工业学校并增设应用化学科，机械与电气学科其后陆续设立。
• In 1918 an agricultural training school was attached to the normal school to supply teachers for rural youth schools, and in 1935 it became a two-year training centre for teachers of adolescent youth.1918 年，师范学校附设农业讲习科，为农村青年学校培养师资，1935 年该机构改为两年制的青年学校教员培训所。
• In 1943 Maebashi Medical College was founded as a men's college to meet the wartime shortage of doctors, and the same year the two prefectural normal schools were merged into a national Gunma Normal School.1943 年，前桥医学专门学校为应对战时医师短缺而创办，同年两所县立师范学校合并为国立群马师范学校。
• In 1944 the Kiryu college was renamed Kiryu Industrial College and the youth training centre was reorganised as the national Gunma Youth Normal School, which received a campus on a former army site in Takasaki in 1947.1944 年，桐生高工改称桐生工业专门学校，青年学校教员培训所则改组为国立群马青年师范学校，后者于 1947 年在高崎旧军营用地上获得校舍。
• In 1948 Maebashi Medical College was reorganised as a four-year Maebashi College of Medical Science, the form in which it entered the new university.1948 年，前桥医学专门学校改组为四年制的前桥医科大学，并以此身份并入新制大学。
• In 1949 Gunma University was established by integrating the medical college, the Kiryu industrial college, the normal school and the youth normal school, with campuses in Showa-machi, Tenjin-cho, Hiyoshi-cho and Wakamiya-cho.1949 年，群马大学由前桥医科大学、桐生工业专门学校、群马师范学校与群马青年师范学校整合而成，校区分设于昭和町、天神町、日吉町与若宫町，此后七十余年间逐步扩展为今天的五个学部，各学部另设专业资料室。
• The Faculty of Liberal Arts and the Faculty of Medicine opened with the university, while the engineering faculty inherited the Kiryu college's buildings and equipment.学艺学部与医学部随大学一同设立，工学部则继承了桐生工业专门学校的校舍与设备。
• In 1951 the Takasaki campus was abolished, and its facilities passed to the institution that became Takasaki City University of Economics.1951 年，高崎校区被撤销，其校舍设施移交给后来成为高崎经济大学的机构，群马大学此后的校区格局便固定在前桥与桐生两地。
• A graduate school of medicine opened in 1963 with a doctoral course, and a graduate school of engineering followed in 1964, adding a doctoral course of its own in 1989.医学研究科于 1963 年设立并开设博士课程，工学研究科于 1964 年跟进，并于 1989 年增设博士课程。
• In 1966 the Faculty of Liberal Arts was renamed the Faculty of Education, the name by which the teacher-training faculty was known for the rest of the century.1966 年，学艺学部改称教育学部，此后整个 20 世纪该校的师范类学部均沿用这一名称。
• In 1970 the Faculty of Education moved to the newly built Aramaki campus, the Hiyoshi campus was closed and the Wakamiya site was kept for the university's attached schools.1970 年，教育学部迁入新建的荒牧校区，日吉校区随之废止，若宫校址则留给附属学校使用。
• In 1972 the main building of the former Kiryu college was moved and preserved as the Alumni Memorial Hall when a reinforced concrete building replaced it.1972 年，桐生工业专门学校的旧主楼在新教学楼兴建时被整体移筑并保存为同窗纪念馆。
• In 1993 the university created a Faculty of Social and Information Studies, one of the first Japanese faculties to combine social science with information technology.1993 年，学校创设社会信息学部，是日本最早把社会科学与信息技术结合起来的学部之一。
• In April 2004 Gunma University became a national university corporation under the National University Corporation Law, ending its status as a government institution.2004 年 4 月，依《国立大学法人法》，群马大学改制为国立大学法人，不再作为政府机关运作，学校由此获得预算与人事上的自主权。
• In 2016 the Faculty of Engineering in Kiryu was reorganised as the School of Science and Technology, adding physics, chemistry and mathematics to its engineering departments.2016 年，桐生的工学部改组为理工学部，在原有工学学科之外增设物理、化学与数学等理学领域。

Academics

• Gunma University is organised into the Cooperative Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Social and Information Studies, the Faculty of Informatics, the School of Medicine with the School of Health Sciences, and the School of Science and Technology.群马大学现设共同教育学部、社会信息学部、信息学部、医学部（含保健学科）与理工学部。
• The Cooperative Faculty of Education is run jointly with Utsunomiya University and trains teachers for primary and secondary schools across the northern Kanto region.共同教育学部与宇都宫大学共同运营，为北关东地区的中小学培养教师。
• The Faculty of Social and Information Studies, created in 1993, combines sociology, law, economics and information science in the study of public policy and media.社会信息学部创设于 1993 年，把社会学、法学、经济学与信息科学结合起来研究公共政策与传媒问题。
• The Faculty of Informatics, the newest faculty, teaches data science, artificial intelligence and information systems on the Aramaki campus in Maebashi.信息学部为最新设立的学部，在前桥荒牧校区教授数据科学、人工智能与信息系统。
• The School of Medicine and the School of Health Sciences occupy the Showa campus, where the medical faculty's hospital provides clinical training for doctors, nurses and allied health staff.医学部与保健学科位于昭和校区，医学部附属医院在此为医师、护士与相关医疗人员提供临床训练。
• The School of Health Sciences trains nurses, radiologic technologists and clinical laboratory scientists, supplying the allied health workforce of hospitals across Gunma Prefecture.保健学科培养护士、放射技师与临床检验技师，为群马县各医院输送相关医疗技术人员。
• The School of Science and Technology in Kiryu teaches applied chemistry, materials engineering, biochemical engineering, mechanical systems, civil engineering, electrical and electronic engineering and information engineering.桐生理工学部教授应用化学、材料工学、生物化学工学、机械系统、建设工学、电气电子工学与信息工学。
• Its graduate schools are Education, Social and Information Studies, Medicine, Health Sciences and Science and Technology, the last offering both master's and doctoral degrees.其研究科包括教育学、社会信息学、医学系、保健学与理工学，最后一个研究科同时授予硕士与博士学位。
• The Institute for Molecular and Cellular Regulation, founded to study metabolic and endocrine control, is one of the university's flagship research centres and works closely with the medical school.分子细胞调节研究所致力于代谢与内分泌调控研究，是学校的主力科研机构之一，并与医学部紧密合作，所内设有面向全校开放的共用实验平台。
• The Heavy Ion Medical Center treats cancer with carbon-ion beams and is one of only a handful of such facilities in Japan, alongside the national institute's HIMAC in Chiba.重粒子线医学研究中心以碳离子束治疗癌症，是日本少数此类设施之一，与千叶国立放射线医学综合研究所的重粒子线治疗装置并列，中心同时承担临床研究与人才培养。
• The Biosignal Genome Resource Center and the Advanced Technology Research Center in Kiryu support genome resources and materials analysis for both faculties and outside partners.生物信号基因组资源中心与桐生的先端技术研究中心，为校内学部及外部合作方提供基因组资源与材料分析支持。
• Gunma University Hospital on the Showa campus is the main referral hospital for the prefecture and the clinical base of the medical and health sciences schools.昭和校区的群马大学医学部附属医院是全县主要转诊医院，也是医学部与保健学科的教学临床基地。
• All first-year students study liberal arts and basic science at the Aramaki campus before moving to the Showa or Kiryu campuses for their specialist courses.所有一年级学生先在荒牧校区学习通识与基础科学，再前往昭和或桐生校区接受专业课程。
• Tuition follows the standard national university rate of 535,800 yen a year, with admissions decided by the Common Test for University Admissions and the university's own examinations.学费执行国立大学标准的每年 535,800 日元，录取依据大学入学共通考试与学校自行组织的考试，此外还需一次性缴纳入学金 282,000 日元，经济困难者可申请减免或缓缴，两项标准由文部科学省统一规定。
• OpenAlex indexes 52,488 works affiliated with Gunma University and 2,812,416 citations to them, a research volume driven by its medical, engineering and life science departments.OpenAlex 收录群马大学署名论文 52,488 篇、被引 2,812,416 次，这一体量主要由医学、工学与生命科学部门贡献。
• The university maintains sister-school agreements with National Formosa University, National Central University and National Taipei University of Education in Taiwan.学校与台湾的国立虎尾科技大学、国立中央大学及国立台北教育大学签有姐妹校协议。
• The Kiryu faculty's research grew out of textile chemistry and now covers functional materials, robotics and environmental engineering for the region's manufacturers.桐生理工学部的科研从纺织化学起步，如今已扩展到功能材料、机器人与面向本地制造企业的环境工程。
• The medical school's graduate programme was reorganised in 2003 into a four-year doctoral course preceded by a two-year master's course, matching the national reform of medical graduate education.医学研究科于 2003 年改组为两年硕士加四年博士的课程结构，与日本医学研究生教育的全国性改革同步。
• Research at the Institute for Molecular and Cellular Regulation focuses on insulin action, obesity and the endocrine control of metabolism, fields in which its staff publish with the medical school's clinicians.分子细胞调节研究所的研究集中于胰岛素作用、肥胖与代谢的内分泌调控，其研究人员与医学部临床医师合作发表成果，研究所同时接收来自亚洲各国的访问学者。

Campus

• Gunma University operates three campuses: Aramaki and Showa in Maebashi and Kiryu in the eastern part of the prefecture.群马大学运营三个校区，即前桥市的荒牧校区与昭和校区，以及县东部的桐生校区。
• The Aramaki campus at 4-2-1 Aramaki-machi, Maebashi 371-8510, houses education, social and information studies, informatics and the central library, at 36.43 degrees north and 139.04 degrees east.荒牧校区位于前桥市荒牧町 4-2-1（邮编 371-8510），设教育、社会信息、信息三个学部及中央图书馆，坐标为北纬 36.43 度、东经 139.04 度，校区北侧为农田与住宅，南距市中心约四公里，校区之间有校车往返。
• The Showa campus at 3-39-22 Showa-machi occupies the site of the 1943 Maebashi Medical College and holds the medical school, the health sciences school and the university hospital.昭和校区位于前桥市昭和町 3-39-22，占用 1943 年前桥医学专门学校的原址，医学部、保健学科与附属医院均设于此，校区紧邻利根川，周边多为住宅与医疗设施。
• The Kiryu campus at 1-5-1 Tenjin-cho occupies the 1915 site of the dyeing and weaving school and preserves its former main building as the Alumni Memorial Hall.桐生校区位于桐生市天神町 1-5-1，沿用 1915 年染织学校的校址，并把旧主楼保存为同窗纪念馆，桐生至今仍有织物批发商与织造工房，被称为「织都」。
• Maebashi, the prefectural capital, has about 330,000 inhabitants, while Gunma Prefecture as a whole counts about 1.9 million people spread between its mountainous north and its manufacturing south.县厅所在地前桥市约有 33 万人口，群马全县约有 190 万人，分布于北部山区与南部制造业地带，市内另有 1911 年建成的临江阁等近代建筑。
• Tomioka Silk Mill, Japan's first modern silk-reeling factory, opened in 1872 about 40 kilometres west of Maebashi and was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2014.日本第一座近代缫丝厂富冈制丝厂于 1872 年投产，位于前桥以西约 40 公里处，2014 年被列入联合国教科文组织世界遗产名录。
• The Aramaki campus lies a short bus ride north of JR Maebashi Station, and the Kiryu campus is reached from JR Kiryu Station on the Ryomo Line.荒牧校区位于 JR 前桥站以北，乘巴士片刻可达，桐生校区则可由两毛线的 JR 桐生站前往，市内公交与校车在早晚高峰加密班次。
• Maebashi records some of Japan's highest summer temperatures and is known for the karakaze, the dry winter wind that sweeps down from the mountains onto the Kanto plain.前桥的夏季气温常居日本前列，冬季则以自山地吹向关东平原的干燥「空っ风」闻名。
• The Wakamiya site inherited from the normal school still holds the university's attached kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school and special needs school.自师范学校继承而来的若宫校址，至今仍设有大学的附属幼儿园、小学、中学与特别支援学校。
• The three campuses are linked by the university's own shuttle services and by the JR Ryomo Line, which connects Maebashi with Kiryu through Isesaki.三个校区由校方班车以及经伊势崎连接前桥与桐生的 JR 两毛线相互连通。

Reputation

• Gunma University is placed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the joint band for institutions ranked between 1201 and 1400.群马大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1201-1400 区间，这是为 1201 至 1400 位院校设置的并列区间，与同处东海地区的岐阜大学落在同一区间，两校近年常被一并比较。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the university in the 1601-1800 band, and the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 put it at 1,975.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名把该校列入 1601-1800 区间，2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名则将其列在第 1975 位。
• Gunma University did not enter the main table of the Shanghai ARWU 2026, having also been absent from the ranked list in the previous edition.群马大学未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，上一版榜单亦未见其名。
• The CWTS Leiden Ranking, which measures publication impact rather than reputation, placed Gunma University 25th among Japanese universities in its 2014 edition.以论文影响力而非声誉为口径的莱顿大学 CWTS 排名，在 2014 年版中把群马大学列为日本高校第 25 位，该排名只统计论文被引，不含声誉调查。
• OpenAlex records 52,488 works and 2,812,416 citations for the university, a total close to that of Gifu University and other mid-sized national universities in the Tokai region.OpenAlex 记录该校论文 52,488 篇、被引 2,812,416 次，与岐阜大学等东海地区中等规模国立大学大体相当，论文主要集中在医学、材料化学与生命科学三个方向。
• Japan has no official national league table, so the university's standing is read from its position among the 86 national universities and from its research income.日本没有官方的全国大学排行，该校地位通常以其在全国 86 所国立大学中的位置与科研经费来衡量，各校也常以论文数与外部经费自评。
• The Heavy Ion Medical Center gives Gunma a national profile in radiation oncology that its overall ranking does not capture, since only a few Japanese centres offer carbon-ion therapy.重粒子线医学研究中心使群马在放射肿瘤学领域拥有全国性影响，而这一优势并不体现在其综合排名上。
• The Kiryu campus's engineering tradition has fed the automotive parts, precision machinery and textile industries of eastern Gunma since the 1915 founding of the dyeing and weaving school.桐生校区的工学传统自 1915 年染织学校创办以来，持续滋养群马东部的汽车零部件、精密机械与纺织产业。
• Gunma University's agreements with three Taiwanese universities give it one of the denser Taiwan networks among Japanese national universities of its size.群马大学与三所台湾高校的协议，使其在同等规模的日本国立大学中拥有较为密集的台湾合作网络。
• The university's graduates dominate the medical staff of Gunma's prefectural and municipal hospitals, and its education faculty supplies a large share of the prefecture's school teachers.该校毕业生构成群马县立与市立医院医师队伍的主体，教育学部也为全县学校输送了大量教师。

Student life

• Because all first-year students begin on the Aramaki campus, the university's liberal arts courses bring together future doctors, engineers and teachers in the same classrooms.由于所有一年级学生都在荒牧校区起步，学校的通识课程让未来的医师、工程师与教师同堂上课。
• The Kiryu Yagibushi Festival, held every August, fills the streets of the engineering campus's host city with dancing to the Yagibushi folk song.每年 8 月举行的桐生八木节祭，让工学校区所在城市的街道随八木节民谣起舞，八木节是桐生一带流传已久的民谣曲调。
• The Maebashi Tanabata Festival in July and the Maebashi Festival in August give students in the capital two large street events within walking distance of the stations.7 月的前桥七夕祭与 8 月的前桥祭，为在县厅所在地就读的学生提供了两场步行可达车站的大型街头活动。
• Kusatsu and Ikaho, two of Japan's best-known hot spring resorts, lie within an hour or two of Maebashi and are common weekend destinations for students.草津与伊香保是日本最知名的两处温泉胜地，距前桥约一至两小时车程，是学生周末常去的地方，草津以汤田闻名，伊香保以石阶街闻名。
• Maebashi's summer heat, which has reached 40 degrees Celsius, and its dry winter winds shape a campus life that moves indoors for much of July and January.前桥夏季气温曾达 40 摄氏度，冬季又多干燥大风，校园生活因此在 7 月与 1 月的大部分时间里转入室内。
• Clubs and circles range from baseball, ekiden and skiing to brass bands and agricultural societies, and the three campuses each run their own student associations.社团与同好会涵盖棒球、驿传、滑雪、吹奏乐与农业类社团，三个校区各自设有学生自治组织，县内的谷川岳与尾濑是登山与滑雪的常见目的地，桐生一带的宽面「ひもかわ」也常出现在学生的餐桌。
• National university tuition of 535,800 yen a year is matched by Japan Student Services Organization scholarships and by fee waivers for students from low-income households.国立大学每年 535,800 日元的学费，可由日本学生支援机构的奖学金与面向低收入家庭的学费减免相抵。
• Because Maebashi and Kiryu are compact cities, most students live in private flats within cycling distance of their campus rather than in university dormitories.前桥与桐生都是规模紧凑的城市，多数学生在距校区可骑车到达的私人公寓居住，而非住在学校宿舍。
• The three-campus structure means that students in medicine and engineering change cities after their first year, a move that has become part of the university's student folklore.三校区结构意味着医学与工学学生在第一年后要迁往另一座城市，这次搬迁已成为该校学生口耳相传的经历。
• Gunma Prefecture produces most of Japan's konnyaku, and the potato fields around the campuses supply a food culture that appears in student cafeterias and in the university's agricultural research.群马县出产日本大部分魔芋，校区周边的魔芋田所支撑的饮食文化，既出现在学生食堂，也进入学校的农业研究。

Notable people

• Genichi Taguchi, the engineer who developed the Taguchi methods of quality engineering, graduated from the Kiryu Technical College that became the university's engineering faculty.田口玄一提出以实验设计为核心的质量工程方法「田口方法」，毕业于后来成为该校工学部的桐生工业专门学校，其方法在制造业的品质管理中被广泛采用。
• Tomihiro Hoshino, a painter and poet, graduated from the Faculty of Education in 1968 and taught in a junior high school until a diving accident in 1970 left him paralysed.星野富弘是画家与诗人，1968 年毕业于教育学部，曾任中学教师，1970 年一次跳水事故后四肢瘫痪，此后以口衔笔作画，作品多以花草为主题并配以短诗，群马县绿市设有专门的富弘美术馆收藏其作品。
• Toshihiro Arai, a rally driver from Gunma, studied at the university before competing in the World Rally Championship's production classes.新井敏弘是群马出身的拉力车手，曾在该校就读，其后参加世界拉力锦标赛的量产车组别。
• Akira Okazaki, a professor in the Faculty of Education, works on astrophysics and on astronomy education for school pupils.冈崎彰是教育学部的教授，研究天体物理并从事面向中小学生的天文教育，长期参与群马县内学校的夜间天文观测指导。
• Masaomi Mori, a professor of endocrinology in the Graduate School of Medicine, has served as president of the Japan Thyroid Association.森昌朋是医学系研究科内分泌学教授，研究聚焦甲状腺疾病与代谢综合征，曾担任日本甲状腺学会理事长。
• The medical faculty established in 1943 has trained most of the physicians practising in Gunma Prefecture, and its hospital remains the region's main referral centre.1943 年设立的医学部培养了群马县多数执业医师，其附属医院至今仍是该地区的主要转诊中心，并承担群马县急救医疗与灾害医疗的核心任务。
• The engineering faculty's graduates staff the automotive parts and precision machinery firms of Kiryu and Isesaki, industries that grew alongside the campus since 1915.工学部的毕业生支撑着桐生与伊势崎的汽车零部件及精密机械企业，这些产业自 1915 年起与校区一同成长。
• The university's education faculty, descended from the 1873 training centre, has supplied teachers to Gunma's schools for a century and a half.该校教育学部源自 1873 年的教员讲习所，一个半世纪以来持续为群马各县立学校输送教师。