Saitama University (埼玉大学, Saitama Daigaku ) is a Japanese national university located in a suburban area of Sakura-ku , Saitama City , capital of Saitama Prefecture in Tokyo Metropolitan Area .
5-405: Founded in 1873, it became a national university is 1949, and currently has five faculties (schools) for undergraduate education: Liberal Arts, Education, Economics, Science, and Engineering; and four graduate schools: Cultural Science, Education, Economic Science, and Science and Engineering. All of these schools offer programs leading to doctorates as well as master's degrees. The total enrollment in
10-1667: Is the main campus in Saitama university and can be accessed by bus or walking from Minami-Yono Station , Kita-Urawa Station , or Shiki Station . Saitama university has two satellite campuses : To provide aspiring overseas students an opportunity to pursue higher education in Japan, International Graduate Program on Civil and Environmental Engineering was launched by the Graduate School of Science and Engineering in 1992. It offers opportunities to highly qualified students from overseas to pursue graduate studies and do research in various disciplines of environmental science and civil engineering. The fields of study include Infrastructure Management, Transportation Planning, Environmental Engineering, Ecological Engineering, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Concrete and Material Engineering, Structural and Wind Engineering, Earthquake Engineering. The graduate program includes courses specially designed for international students, in which class instruction and research supervision are given in English and/or Japanese. Master thesis and doctoral dissertation are accepted in English. Japanese language courses are also offered for foreign students and their spouses. So far, 215 students from different countries have graduated from this program and are now engaged in academic and professional activities in different parts of
15-542: The Kawagoe Line and southward to Shin-Kiba via the TWR Rinkai Line . The station is located 19.0 km from Ikebukuro Station . The station identification colour is "tokiwa green". The station consists of one elevated island platform serving two tracks, with the station building located underneath. Additional passing tracks lie on either side of the station for non-stop rapid services. The tracks of
20-559: The university is more than 8,500 with more than 500 overseas students pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Its abbreviated form is Saidai (埼大). The predecessor of the university, Saitama Normal School, was founded in 1873. It was chartered as a national university in 1949 by the merger of Urawa Higher School ( 浦和高等学校 , Urawa Kōtō Gakkō ) established 1929, Saitama Normal School ( 埼玉師範学校 , Saitama Shihan Gakkō ) , and Saitama Youth Normal School ( 埼玉青年師範学校 , Saitama Seinen Shihan Gakkō ) established 1922. Ōkubo campus
25-747: The world. Minami-Yono Station Minami-Yono Station ( 南与野駅 , Minami-Yono-eki ) is a passenger railway station on the Saikyō Line located in Chūō-ku, Saitama , Saitama Prefecture , Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). Minami-Yono Station is served by the Saikyō Line which runs between Ōsaki in Tokyo and Ōmiya in Saitama Prefecture. Some trains continue northward to Kawagoe via
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