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| Type | Public (national) |
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| Established | Founded 1949, Chartered 1899 |
| Location | ,, |
| Nickname | Kosen |
| Website | www.kit.ac.jp |
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Kyoto Institute of Technology (Japanese:京都工芸繊維大学,Hepburn:Kyōto Kōgei Sen'i Daigaku) is a national university established in 1949 inKyoto,Japan.
The Institute's history extends back to two schools, Kyoto Craft High School (established in 1902 at Sakyo-ku, Yoshida) and Kyoto Sericulture Training School (established in 1899 at Kita-ku, Daishogun, under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce), which were forerunners of the Faculty of Engineering and Design and the Faculty of Textile Science, respectively. The former was moved to Sakyo-ku, Matsugasaki in 1930 and changed its name to Kyoto Industrial High School in 1944. The latter developed into Kyoto Sericulture High School, under supervision of the Ministry of Education in 1914, and changed its name to Kyoto Sericulture Technical High School in 1931 and then to Kyoto Technical High School of Sericulture in 1944. The two forerunners merged in 1949, due to educational system revisions, to establish the present School of Science and Technology. Together withShinshu University andTokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, the Institute is one of Japan's three historical centers of textile research.
Kyoto Institute of Technology has a campus at Matsugasaki in Sakyō-ku. Another campus is at Saga in Ukyō-ku. Its Japanese nickname is Kōsen (工繊). In English it is known as KIT.
Beginning in October 2007, graduate course instruction became available in English through the International Program for Science and Technology for specially selected students from the 50 institutions worldwide with KIT Exchange Agreements.
3954 undergraduates (29% women) and 1110graduate students (23% women), 170 of whom areinternational students from 30 countries, comprised the student body as of May 1, 2011. From 2008 to 2009, 330 KIT researchers traveled abroad and 175 researchers came to KIT from abroad.[1]
The university graduate school, established in 1988, awards master's and doctoral degrees in science and technology.
In 2006, 28 patents were attributed to Kyoto Institute of Technology.
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