Kagoshima University

Kagoshima University (鹿児島大学, Kagoshima Daigaku), abbreviated Kadai (鹿大), is a national university in Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture, on the southern island of Kyushu, Japan.鹿儿岛大学（鹿児島大学，简称鹿大）是位于日本九州南部鹿儿岛县鹿儿岛市的一所国立大学。

Its institutional ancestry reaches back to the domain school Zoshikan founded in 1773, and the modern university was created in 1949 by consolidating seven higher-education institutions, including the Seventh Higher School.其学脉可追溯至 1773 年创办的藩校造士馆，现代意义的大学则于 1949 年由七所高等教育机构合并而成，其中包括第七高等学校。

Nine faculties and nine graduate schools enrol about 10,300 students, and the 2027 QS World University Rankings place the university in the 1201-1400 band.学校设 9 个学部与 9 个研究科，在校生约 10300 人，2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将其列入 1201-1400 区间。

History

• The Zoshikan was founded in 1773 by Shimazu Shigehide, the lord of Satsuma domain, as a han school teaching Confucian classics to the sons of samurai and preparing them for service in the domain administration.造士馆由萨摩藩主岛津重豪于 1773 年创办，作为藩校向武士子弟教授儒家经典，为他们进入藩政服务作准备。
• The abolition of the han domains in 1871 closed the Zoshikan, and its name was revived three decades later when the Seventh Higher School was founded on the castle site in 1901.1871 年废藩置县使造士馆停办，三十年后第七高等学校在城堡旧址创办时又重新启用了这一名称。
• Kagoshima Normal School, established in 1875 during the early Meiji drive to build a national school system, is the oldest of the institutions from which the university descends.鹿儿岛师范学校创办于 1875 年，正值明治初期建立国民学校体系之际，是学校诸前身中历史最悠久的一所。
• The Seventh Higher School Zoshikan opened in 1901 on the site of Kagoshima Castle, becoming one of the elite higher schools that prepared students for the imperial universities.第七高等学校造士馆于 1901 年在鹿儿岛城址开学，成为为帝国大学输送生源的精英旧制高等学校之一。
• Kagoshima College of Agriculture and Forestry was established in 1908, giving the prefecture a centre for subtropical crop research and the study of Satsuma agriculture.鹿儿岛农林专门学校于 1908 年设立，为全县提供了亚热带作物研究与萨摩农业研究的中心。
• A prefectural medical school founded in 1942, itself descended from a Meiji-era Kagoshima medical school, became the Kagoshima Prefectural Medical College and later the university's faculty of medicine.1942 年创办的县立医学专门学校可上溯至明治时期的鹿儿岛医学校，后升格为县立鹿儿岛医科大学，并最终成为大学医学部。
• Kagoshima Youth Normal School was added in 1944 to train teachers for the prefecture's youth schools, an institution later folded into the faculty of education.鹿儿岛青年师范学校于 1944 年增设，负责培养县内青年学校的师资，该机构后来并入教育学部。
• A prefectural technical college opened in 1945, and a fisheries college followed in 1946, both responding to the industrial and food-supply needs of postwar southern Kyushu.县立工业专门学校于 1945 年开办，水产专门学校于 1946 年接续设立，两者都回应了战后南九州工业与粮食供给的需求。
• Under the National School Establishment Law of 1949, seven institutions were consolidated into Kagoshima University with faculties of arts and sciences, education, agriculture, fisheries, engineering and medicine.依据 1949 年《国立学校设置法》，七所机构合并为鹿儿岛大学，设文理学部、教育学部、农学部、水产学部、工学部与医学部。
• The Seventh Higher School was closed in 1950 under the postwar education reform, and its remaining students completed their degrees at the new Kagoshima University.第七高等学校于 1950 年在战后学制改革中停办，尚未毕业的学生转入新成立的鹿儿岛大学完成学业。
• In the same year the prefectural technical and medical colleges were organised separately as Kagoshima Prefectural University, a two-faculty institution run by the prefecture.同年，县立工业与医学两校另行组建成鹿儿岛县立大学，这是一所由县管理的两学部制院校。
• Kagoshima Prefectural University was merged into Kagoshima University in 1955, completing the transfer of engineering and medicine to national control and giving the university its enduring faculty structure.1955 年，鹿儿岛县立大学并入鹿儿岛大学，工程与医学由此完全转为国立，大学延续至今的学部格局也基本定型。
• A 1965 reorganisation divided the old faculty of arts and sciences into a faculty of law, economics and the humanities and a separate faculty of science, reflecting the postwar growth of both fields.1965 年的重组把原文理学部拆分为法文学部与理学部，反映出战后法学、经济学与自然科学各自的扩张。
• The faculty of dentistry was added in 1977, making Kagoshima one of the smaller Japanese national universities with a complete medical and dental campus.齿学部于 1977 年增设，使鹿儿岛大学成为日本规模较小但医学与齿学齐备的国立大学之一。
• In April 2004 the university was incorporated as National University Corporation Kagoshima University under the reform that gave every Japanese national university corporate status.2004 年 4 月，在日本国立大学全面法人化的改革中，学校改组为国立大学法人鹿儿岛大学。
• The Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine was separated from the faculty of agriculture in 2012, and it is operated jointly with Yamaguchi University, which shares the teaching and clinical load.共同兽医学部于 2012 年从农学部独立，与山口大学共同办学，双方分担教学与临床任务。
• A joint graduate school of veterinary medicine followed the creation of the faculty, allowing doctoral training to be shared across the two universities and their animal hospitals.兽医学部成立后又设立共同兽医学研究科，使两校及其动物医院得以共享博士培养资源。
• The university hospital descends from the Meiji-era medical school and now serves as the prefecture's centre for advanced treatment, transplant surgery and remote-island telemedicine.大学医院源自明治时期的医学校，现为全县疑难重症治疗、移植手术与离岛远程医疗的中心。
• The Ibusuki Experimental Botanical Garden, managed by the faculty of agriculture, preserves tropical and subtropical plants and supports fieldwork on crops that grow in Kagoshima's warm climate.由农学部管理的指宿植物试验场保存热带与亚热带植物，并为适应鹿儿岛温暖气候的作物研究提供野外基地。
• The university marked its 70th anniversary in 2019, seventy years after the 1949 consolidation, and used the occasion to restate its role as southern Kyushu's comprehensive national university.2019 年，学校迎来 1949 年合并后的第 70 个年头，并借此重申其作为南九州综合性国立大学的定位。

Academics

• Teaching is organised into nine faculties, those of law, economics and the humanities, education, science, medicine, dentistry, engineering, agriculture, fisheries, and the Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.教学由 9 个学部承担，即法文学部、教育学部、理学部、医学部、齿学部、工学部、农学部、水产学部与共同兽医学部。
• Nine graduate schools cover humanities and social sciences, education, science and engineering, medical and dental sciences, health sciences, agriculture, forestry and fisheries, fisheries, law and clinical psychology.9 个研究科涵盖人文社会科学、教育、理工学、医齿学、保健学、农学与林业水产、水产学、法学以及临床心理学。
• The QS institutional profile records 10,326 students, 1,331 academic staff and 343 international students, a staff-student ratio of roughly one to eight.QS 院校档案显示，学校有学生 10326 人、专任教师 1331 人、国际学生 343 人，师生比约为 1 比 8。
• Undergraduates form the large majority of the total, and the six-year courses in medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine account for a substantial share of the senior years.本科生占总数的大多数，医学、齿学与兽医学的六年制课程在高年级学生中占比可观。
• The faculty of fisheries occupies its own Shimoarata campus and operates training vessels that take students into the East China Sea and the North Pacific for surveys of fish stocks and ocean conditions, with the Kagoshima Maru carrying the name through successive training ships.水产学部拥有独立的下荒田校区，并运营实习船，带学生赴东海与北太平洋调查鱼类资源与海洋环境，鹿儿岛丸之名由历代实习船沿用。
• Fisheries research covers aquaculture of yellowtail, tuna and shrimp, the management of coastal stocks, and the processing of bonito, a staple of Kagoshima's food economy.水产研究涵盖鰤鱼、金枪鱼与对虾养殖、近海资源管理以及鲣鱼加工，后者是鹿儿岛食品经济的重要支柱。
• The faculty of agriculture works on sweet potato, citrus, tea and livestock, and its experimental farms maintain breeding stock for Kagoshima Berkshire pigs and Japanese Black cattle.农学部研究甘薯、柑橘、茶与畜产，其试验农场保存鹿儿岛伯克希尔猪与日本黑牛的育种种群。
• The faculty of medicine trains physicians for a prefecture of islands and remote communities, and its curriculum includes telemedicine, emergency care and community health in addition to hospital practice.医学部为多岛屿、多偏远社区的鹿儿岛县培养医生，课程除医院实习外还包括远程医疗、急救医学与社区健康。
• The faculty of medicine also runs a remote-island health programme, sending students and residents to clinics on the Amami and Tokara islands for part of their training.医学部还实施离岛医疗项目，安排学生与住院医师到奄美、吐噶喇列岛的诊所接受部分训练。
• The faculty of dentistry, established in 1977, runs clinics that serve an ageing population and conducts research on oral health and swallowing function in elderly patients.齿学部建于 1977 年，其门诊服务老龄化人口，并开展老年患者口腔健康与吞咽功能研究。
• Veterinary medicine is taught jointly with Yamaguchi University, and the programme uses both universities' animal hospitals for clinical training in large-animal and companion-animal practice.兽医学由鹿儿岛大学与山口大学共同讲授，项目利用两校动物医院开展大动物与伴侣动物的临床训练。
• The university belongs to the Japan Association of National Universities and takes part in Kyushu-wide consortia for graduate education, clinical training and fisheries research.学校是日本国立大学协会成员，并参与九州地区的研究生教育、临床训练与水产研究联盟。
• The faculty of engineering teaches mechanical, electrical and electronic, architectural, applied chemistry, ocean civil, information and biomedical engineering, with strength in marine structures and energy systems.工学部开设机械、电气电子、建筑、应用化学、海洋土木、信息与生物医学工程等专业，在海洋结构与能源系统方面见长。
• The faculty of science covers mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and earth sciences, and its marine and volcanic research draws on Kagoshima's position beside Sakurajima and the Nansei Islands.理学部涵盖数学、物理、化学、生物与地球科学，其海洋与火山研究依托鹿儿岛毗邻樱岛与南西诸岛的地理条件。
• The faculty of law, economics and the humanities combines legal, economic and cultural studies, and its public-policy courses prepare students for prefectural and municipal government careers.法文学部融合法学、经济学与人文研究，其公共政策课程为学生进入县市两级政府工作做准备。
• The faculty of education trains teachers for primary and secondary schools and runs a graduate programme in clinical psychology for school counsellors and child-welfare staff.教育学部培养中小学教师，并开设面向学校心理咨询师与儿童福利人员的临床心理学研究生项目。
• The Research Center for the Pacific Islands studies the Nansei archipelago, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, combining anthropology, marine biology, geology and island public health.太平洋岛屿研究中心研究南西诸岛、台湾与东南亚，综合人类学、海洋生物学、地质学与岛屿公共卫生。
• The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences hosts doctoral students from partner national universities in Kyushu, pooling laboratories and field stations across the region.联合农学研究科接收九州多所国立大学的博士生，整合区域内的实验室与野外站资源。
• The Kagoshima University Museum holds natural-history, archaeological and ethnographic collections from southern Kyushu and the island chains, and it serves as the university's public face for science outreach.鹿儿岛大学博物馆收藏南九州与岛链的自然史、考古与民族志标本，也是学校面向公众开展科学传播的窗口。
• The Central Library and its faculty branches provide the main research collections, while the Ibusuki garden, research forests and marine stations extend the campus into the prefecture's varied environments.中央图书馆及各学部分馆构成主要研究馆藏，指宿植物园、研究林与海洋站则把校园延伸到县内多样的生态环境。
• Admission combines the national university entrance examination with individual tests and interviews, and international applicants may enter through the university's own foreign-student selection.招生结合全国大学入学考试与校内笔试、面试，国际申请者可通过学校自设的留学生选拔入学。

Campus

• The main Korimoto campus stands at 1-21-24 Korimoto in Kagoshima City, at approximately 31.57 degrees north and 130.55 degrees east, about four kilometres from Kagoshima Chuo Station.主校区郡元校区位于鹿儿岛市郡元 1 丁目 21 番 24 号，坐标约为北纬 31.57 度、东经 130.55 度，距鹿儿岛中央站约 4 公里。
• Korimoto houses the faculties of law, economics and the humanities, education, science, engineering and agriculture, and its quadrangles are linked by a central avenue of camphor trees.郡元校区容纳法文学部、教育学部、理学部、工学部与农学部，各院落由一条樟树夹道的中央轴线相连。
• The Sakuragaoka campus, a short distance north of Korimoto, contains the faculties of medicine and dentistry together with Kagoshima University Hospital and its outpatient clinics.樱丘校区位于郡元以北不远处，设医学部与齿学部，并容纳鹿儿岛大学医院及其门诊部。
• The Shimoarata campus near Kagoshima Port is the base of the faculty of fisheries, with laboratories, cold storage and berths for the university's training vessels.下荒田校区靠近鹿儿岛港，是水产学部基地，设有实验室、冷库与大学实习船泊位。
• Beyond the three urban campuses the university manages the Ibusuki Experimental Botanical Garden, research forests and marine stations that together cover the prefecture's subtropical and volcanic environments.除三个城区校区外，学校还管理指宿植物试验场、研究林与海洋站，覆盖县内亚热带与火山环境。
• Sakurajima, the active volcano across Kinko Bay, dominates the view from Korimoto and supplies the volcanic ash that campus gardeners and building managers must clear after eruptions.隔锦江湾相望的活火山樱岛构成郡元校区的主要景观，火山喷发后的降灰也需校园园艺与物业人员清理。
• The Central Library stands beside the main quadrangle, and the University Museum, the University Hall and the health centre are within a few minutes' walk of it.中央图书馆位于主广场旁，大学博物馆、大学会馆与保健中心均在数分钟步行范围内。
• City buses and the Kagoshima City Tram link Korimoto with downtown Tenmonkan and the ferry terminal for Sakurajima, and most students commute by bus or bicycle.市内公交与鹿儿岛市电把郡元校区同天文馆商圈及樱岛渡轮码头连接起来，多数学生乘公交或骑自行车通勤。
• The Korimoto campus is fully covered by wireless access, and its libraries stay open into the evening during term, a facility that students from outside Kagoshima rely on.郡元校区实现无线网络全覆盖，学期中图书馆开放至傍晚以后，这一条件为外地学生所依赖。
• On-campus residences and the International House accommodate a limited number of students, and many others live in apartments in Korimoto, Kojima and the streets around Kagoshima Chuo Station.校内宿舍与国际交流会馆仅容纳有限学生，更多人住在郡元、小岛及鹿儿岛中央站周边的公寓。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the university sits in the 1201-1400 band, a tied range rather than a single position.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，学校位于 1201-1400 区间，这是并列档而非单一排名。
• The 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings place it in the 1601-1800 band, near the bottom of the global table but still inside it.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列入 1601-1800 区间，虽接近全球榜单末段，但仍榜上有名。
• U.S. News ranks it 1,808th in the 2026-2027 Best Global Universities list, its highest position among the four major global tables.在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单中，学校位列第 1808 名，是四大全球主榜中的最高名次。
• It did not enter the main table of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, and the university does not cite an older ARWU rank in its own materials.学校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，校方材料也不以旧年份的软科名次替代。
• OpenAlex records 50,099 works and 2,462,289 citations for the university, reflecting a research base concentrated in fisheries, agriculture, medicine and the marine sciences.OpenAlex 收录该校 50099 项成果、2462289 次引用，反映其研究基础集中于水产、农业、医学与海洋科学。
• QS places the university in the 301-350 band of one of its subject rankings, a stronger showing than its overall world position suggests.在 QS 的某一学科排名中，学校位列 301-350 区间，较其世界综合排名更为靠前。
• The university is one of the largest national universities in Kyushu outside Fukuoka, and it anchors the region's fisheries, agricultural and medical research networks.学校是福冈以外九州规模最大的国立大学之一，也是区域水产、农业与医学研究网络的核心。
• Its alumni include a Nobel laureate in physics and the founder of two global technology companies, achievements that carry weight in Japanese higher-education circles.其校友中既有诺贝尔物理学奖得主，也有两家全球性科技公司的创办人，这些成就使学校在日本高教界颇具分量。
• Research income comes from MEXT grants, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and contracts with Kagoshima Prefecture on fisheries, volcanic hazard and island healthcare.研究经费来自文部科学省拨款、日本学术振兴会以及鹿儿岛县在水产、火山灾害与离岛医疗方面的委托项目。

Student life

• The university has no formal motto, and its charter instead sets out commitments to free inquiry, regional contribution and international openness.学校没有正式校训，其宪章改为列明自由探究、贡献区域与开放国际的承诺。
• The Kagoshima University Song is performed at the April entrance ceremony and at the November anniversary assembly, and students learn it during orientation week.鹿儿岛大学校歌在 4 月入学典礼与 11 月校庆集会上演唱，学生在迎新周学唱。
• The Kadai Festival, held each autumn on the Korimoto campus, brings food stalls, laboratory open days, stage performances and a closing fireworks display.每年秋季在郡元校区举行的鹿大祭设有小吃摊、实验室开放日、舞台表演与闭幕烟花。
• Freshmen take part in club recruitment in April and in a Sakurajima hiking orientation that introduces the volcanic landscape across Kinko Bay.新生在 4 月参加社团招新，并参加樱岛徒步迎新活动，认识锦江湾对岸的火山地貌。
• Student organisations include academic societies, sports clubs, brass and rock bands, and volunteer groups that work with island schools and disaster-preparedness projects.学生组织包括学术社团、体育俱乐部、管乐与摇滚乐队，以及与离岛学校和防灾项目合作的志愿团体。
• Inter-faculty sports competitions in baseball, football and basketball are staged around the Kadai Festival, with teams drawn from each faculty and the graduate schools.鹿大祭前后举行棒球、足球与篮球院际比赛，各学部与研究生院分别组队。
• The Korimoto student quarter has cheap eateries, bookshops and supermarkets, and the tram ride to Tenmonkan gives access to the city's nightlife and shopping.郡元学生街区遍布平价餐馆、书店与超市，乘市电可到天文馆，享受市中心的夜生活与购物。
• The International House and the international student association run language exchanges and home-visit programmes that connect the 343 foreign students with Kagoshima families.国际交流会馆与留学生会开展语言交换和寄宿家庭项目，把 343 名国际学生与鹿儿岛家庭联系起来。
• Students volunteer as guides at the University Museum and at the Ibusuki garden, and education students work in local schools as part of their teaching practicum.学生在大学博物馆与指宿植物园担任志愿讲解员，教育学部学生则在本地学校完成教学实习。
• The health centre provides annual check-ups and mental-health counselling, and the student cooperative runs a second-hand textbook market at the start of each term.保健中心提供年度体检与心理咨询，学生生活合作社在每学期开学时举办二手教材集市。

Notable people

• Kazuo Inamori, who graduated from the faculty of engineering in 1955, founded Kyocera in 1959 and KDDI in 1984 and later chaired Japan Airlines during its restructuring.稻盛和夫 1955 年毕业于工学部，1959 年创办京瓷，1984 年创办 KDDI，后在日本航空重组期间出任董事长。
• Isamu Akasaki, counted among the university's alumni, shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of blue light-emitting diodes, the basis of modern white lighting.赤崎勇被列为该校校友，因发明蓝色发光二极管而与他人共享 2014 年诺贝尔物理学奖，这一发明奠定了现代白光照明的基础。
• Wataru Kubo, a graduate who entered national politics, served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in the 1990s and as a senior figure in the Japan Socialist Party.久保亘为该校毕业生，20 世纪 90 年代出任副首相兼财务大臣，也是日本社会党的重要人物。
• Shigenori Togo, educated at the Seventh Higher School before Tokyo Imperial University, was Japan's Foreign Minister at the outbreak of the Pacific War and again in 1945.东乡茂德在升入东京帝国大学前就读于第七高等学校，曾在太平洋战争爆发时与 1945 年两度出任日本外相。
• Zhou Fohai, a Chinese politician who studied at the Seventh Higher School, became a leading figure in the Kuomintang and later in the Wang Jingwei collaborationist government.周佛海曾在第七高等学校求学，后成为中国国民党要员，继而在汪精卫伪政府中位居高位。
• Kyuichi Tokuda, a former student who became chairman of the Japanese Communist Party, was elected to the National Diet in 1946 and later deported to China.德田球一曾在该校就读，后任日本共产党书记长，1946 年当选国会议员，其后被驱逐至中国。
• Kamejiro Senaga, an alumnus who became mayor of Naha, was a leading Okinawan politician and a campaigner against US military bases in the prefecture.濑长龟次郎为该校校友，后当选那霸市长，是冲绳重要政治人物与反对美军基地的运动者。
• Kuniyoshi Obara, trained at the Kagoshima Normal School, founded the Tamagawa Gakuen school group and Tamagawa University and promoted a holistic, child-centred philosophy of education.小原国芳受训于鹿儿岛师范学校，创办玉川学园与玉川大学，提倡以儿童为中心的全人教育理念。
• Shinobu Kaitani, a manga artist and graduate, created the psychological thriller Liar Game, which was serialised in Weekly Young Jump and adapted for television and film.漫画家甲斐谷忍毕业于该校，创作心理悬疑漫画《诈欺游戏》，在《周刊 Young Jump》连载并改编为电视剧与电影。
• Katsutoshi Naito, a wrestler who won a bronze medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics, is among the university's sporting alumni, and Kogoro Yamazaki became the first Chief of Staff of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.摔跤运动员内藤克俊在 1924 年巴黎奥运会获得铜牌，是该校体育校友之一，山崎小五郎则出任海上自卫队首任幕僚长。