History of Fukuoka University
| April 1934 | Fukuoka Higher Commercial School is established. |
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| April 1944 | Fukuoka Higher Commercial School and Kyushu College (originally established by Kobun Gakusha Foundation) merge to found Kyushu College of Economics. |
| April 1946 | Kyushu College of Economics changes its name to Fukuoka College of Economics. |
| April 1949 | Fukuoka College of Economics and Fukuoka College of Foreign Affairs (originally established by Fukuoka Gaikokugo Gakuen Foundation) merge to found Fukuoka College of Commerce (Department of Commerce, Faculty of Commerce). |
| April 1950 | Fukuoka College of Commerce establishes Junior College Section 1 (Department of Commerce and Economics, Department of International Trade, and Department of English Literature) and Junior College Section 2 (Department of Commerce and Economics, Department of International Trade, and Department of English Literature). |
| April 1953 | Fukuoka College of Commerce establishes the Faculty of Commerce Section 2 (Department of Commerce). |
| April 1956 | Fukuoka College of Commerce changes its name to Fukuoka University. The University establishes the Faculty of Law and Economics (Department of Law and Department of Economics). |
| March 1958 | Fukuoka University Junior College closes. |
| April 1959 | The Faculty of Law and Economics is broken into the Faculty of Law (Department of Jurisprudence) and the Faculty of Economics (Department of Economics). |
| April 1960 | The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Department of Pharmaceutics) is established. The Law, Economics, and Commerce majors are established. |
| April 1962 | The Faculty of Engineering (Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering) is established. |
| April 1964 | The Faculty of Engineering establishes the Department of Civil Engineering and the Department of Architecture. |
| March 1965 | The Law and Economics majors are eliminated. |
| April 1965 | The Graduate School (Graduate School of Law with the Civil and Criminal Law masterʼs program and Graduate School of Economics with the Economics masterʼs program) is established. The Pharmaceutical Science major is established. |
| April 1966 | The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Faculty of Engineering establish the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and the Department of Electronics Engineering, respectively. |
| April 1967 | The Faculty of Commerce establishes the Department of International Trade. The Graduate School of Law establishes the Public Law masterʼs program and the Civil and Criminal Law doctoral program, and the Graduate School of Economics establishes the Economics doctoral program. |
| March 1968 | The Commerce and Pharmaceutical Science majors are eliminated. |
| April 1968 | The Faculty of Commerce establishes the Department of Industrial Economics. The Graduate School of Commerce establishes theCommerce masterʼs program, and the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science establishes the Pharmacology masterʼs program. |
| April 1969 | The Faculty of Humanities (Department of Culture, Department of English, and Department of French) and the Faculty of Physical Education (Department of Physical Education) are established. The Faculty of Engineering establishes the Department of Chemical Engineering. |
| April 1970 | The Faculty of Science (Department of Applied Mathematics, Department of Applied Physics, and Department of Chemistry) is established. The Faculty of Humanities establishes the Department of German, and the Faculty of Law establishes the Department of Business Law. The Graduate School of Commerce establishes the Commerce doctoral program, and the Graduate School of Engineering establishes the Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering masterʼs programs. |
| April 1971 | The Graduate School of Law establishes the Public Law doctoral program. |
| April 1972 | The Faculty of Medicine (School of Medicine) is established. |
| August 1973 | Fukuoka University Hospital is established. |
| April 1974 | The Graduate School of Engineering establishes the Chemical Engineering masterʼs program. |
| April 1975 | The Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science establishes the Pharmacology doctoral program. |
| April 1976 | The Graduate School of Science establishes the Applied Physics and Chemistry doctoral programs. |
| April 1978 | The Graduate School of Medical Sciences establishes the Human Biology, Infectious Microorganism, Pathomorphology, Pathological Biodynamics, Pathological Chemistry, and Social Medicine and Environmental Health doctoral programs. |
| April 1982 | The Graduate School of Humanities establishes the English Language and Literature and French Language and Literature masterʼs programs, and the Graduate School of Science establishes the Applied Mathematics masterʼs program. |
| June 1985 | Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital is established. |
| April 1987 | The Faculty of Humanities establishes the Department of History and the Department of Japanese Language and Literature. |
| April 1990 | The Graduate School of Science establishes the Applied Mathematics doctoral program, and the Graduate School of Engineering establishes the Electronics Engineering and Architecture and Civil Engineering masterʼs programs. The Graduate School of Physical Education establishes the Physical Education masterʼs program. |
| April 1992 | The Graduate School of Humanities establishes the History, Japanese Language and Literature, and German Language and Literature masterʼs programs. |
| April 1993 | The Graduate School of Engineering establishes the Energy and Environment Systems, and Information and Control Systems doctoral programs. |
| April 1994 | The Graduate School of Humanities establishes the History and Japanese Language and Literature doctoral programs. |
| April 1995 | The Faculty of Humanitiesʼ Department of German and Department of French change their Japanese names (their English names remain the same). |
| April 1997 | The Graduate School of Humanities establishes the English Language and Literature, German Language and Literature, and French Language and Literature doctoral programs. The Graduate School of Science establishes the Earth System Science masterʼs program. |
| April 1998 | The Faculty of Science establishes the Department
of Earth System Science. The Faculty of Engineering reorganizes the Department of Electronics Engineering to form the Department of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, and the Faculty of Physical Education is reorganized to form the Faculty of Sports and Health Science (Department of Sports Science and Department of Health and Exercise Science). |
| April 1999 | The Faculty of Humanities establishes the Department of East Asian Studies, and the Faculty of Commerce establishes the Department of Business Management. The Graduate School of Humanities establishes the Socio-Cultural Studies masterʼs program, and the Graduate School of Science establishes the Earth System Science doctoral program. |
| April 2000 | The Graduate School of Humanities establishes the Education and Clinical Psychology masterʼs program. |
| April 2002 | The Graduate School of Humanities establishes the Education and Clinical Psychology doctoral program, and the Graduate School of Engineering establishes the Recycling and Eco-Technology masterʼs program. |
| April 2003 | The Faculty of Engineeringʼs Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Civil Engineering change their Japanese names (their English names remain the same). The Graduate School of Physical Education changes its name to the Graduate School of Sports and Health Science, and the Physical Education program changes its name to Sports and Health Science. |
| March 2004 | The Faculty of Engineeringʼs Department of Electronics Engineering is eliminated. |
| April 2004 | The Graduate School of Sports and Health Science establishes the Sports and Health Science doctoral program. The Graduate School of Sports and Health Science establishes the Sports and Health Science doctoral program. The Institute for Legal Practice establishes the Legal Practice professional degree program (Law School).The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciencesʼ Department of Pharmaceutics and Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry change their names to the Department of Medical Pharmacy and the Department of Life Pharmaceutics, respectively. The Graduate School of Engineeringʼs Electronics Engineering program changes its name to Electronics Engineering and Computer Science. |
| March 2005 | The Faculty of Physical Education (Department of Physical Education) is eliminated. |
| April 2006 | The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciencesʼ Department of Medical Pharmacy and Department of Life Pharmaceutics are reorganized to form the Department of Pharmaceutics (which offers a six-year program). |
| April 2007 | The Faculty of Humanities establishes the Department of Education and Clinical Psychology, and the Faculty of Medicine establishes the School of Nursing. |
| April 2008 | The Faculty of Scienceʼs Department of Applied Physics changes its name to the Department of Physics. The Graduate School of Medical Sciencesʼ Infectious Microorganisms and Pathological Chemistry programs change their names to Regulatory Biology and Frontier Medical Sciences, respectively. |
| April 2010 | The Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science establishes the Pharmaceutical Health Science masterʼs program. |
| September 2010 | The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciencesʼ Department of Life Pharmaceutics is eliminated. |
| March 2011 | The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciencesʼ Department of Medical Pharmacy is eliminated. The Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Scienceʼs Pharmacology masterʼs program is eliminated. |
| April 2011 | The Graduate School of Medical Sciences establishes the Nursing masterʼs program. |
| April 2012 | The Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science establishes a four-year Pharmacology doctoral program. The School of Japanese Language and Culture for International Students is established. |
| March 2014 | The Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Scienceʼs Pharmacology doctoral program is eliminated. |
| April 2018 | Fukuoka University Nishijin Hospital is established. |
History of Affiliated Schools
| April 1948 | Fukuoka College of Foreign Affairs Ohori Junior High School is established. |
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| April 1949 | Fukuoka College of Foreign Affairs Ohori Junior High School changes its name to Fukuoka College of Commerce Ohori Junior High School. |
| April 1951 | Fukuoka College of Commerce Ohori High School is established. |
| April 1956 | Fukuoka College of Commerce Ohori Junior High School and Ohori High School change their names to Fukuoka University Ohori Junior High School and Ohori High School. |
| March 1958 | Fukuoka University Ohori Junior High School closes |
| April 1975 | Fukuoka University Nursing School is established. |
| October 1976 | Fukuoka University Nursing School changes its name to Fukuoka University Nursing College. |
| April 1996 | Fukuoka University Ohori Junior Junior High School is established. |
| March 2009 | Fukuoka University Nursing College closes. |
| April 2010 | Fukuoka University Wakaba High School is established (by merging with Kyushu Girlsʼ High School and changing its name). |