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Template:Nihongo, abbreviated as Template:Nihongo or Template:Nihongo, is a private research university located in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally established as a school for Western studies in 1858 in Edo. It was granted university status in 1920, becoming one of the first private universities in the country.

Keio University is also one of the member universities of RU11<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and APRU, and it is one of two Japanese universities (alongside the University of Tokyo) to be a member of the World Economic Forum's Global University Leaders Forum.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Overview

The founder of Keio Fukuzawa Yukichi's statue on Hiyoshi campus.

Keio traces its history to 1858 when Fukuzawa Yukichi started to teach Dutch while he was a guest of the Okudaira family. In 1868 he changed the name of the school to Keio Gijuku and devoted his time to education. While Keio's initial identity was that of a private school of Western studies, it expanded and established its first university faculty in 1890.

Keio has approximately 30 Research Centres located on its five main campuses and at other facilities for advanced research in Japan.<ref name="ogi.keio.ac.jp"/> Keio University Research Institute at SFC (KRIS) has joined the MIT and the French INRIA in hosting the international W3C.<ref name="INRIA">Template:Cite web</ref>

As of June 2022, Keio University holds the largest endowment fund among all Japanese universities, with ¥78 billion. This is followed by Waseda University at ¥29 billion, Kyoto University at ¥20 billion and the University of Tokyo at ¥15 billion.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

History

Keio Gijuku in Tsukiji in 1869

Template:Nihongo was first established in 1858 as a School of Western studies located in one of the mansion houses at Tsukiji by founder Fukuzawa Yukichi.<ref name="history 5">Template:Cite web</ref> "Template:Interlanguage link" was the original name of Keio University. Keio University's root is considered to be the Han school for Kokugaku studies, named Shinshu Kan established in 1796.Template:Citation needed It later changed its name to "Keio Gijuku" in 1868, which originated from the era name "Keio",<ref>1868 is 4th year of Keio</ref> with "Gijuku" as the translation of Private school.<ref name="history 6">Template:Cite web</ref> It moved to its current location in 1871, established a Medical school in 1873, along with the university department of Economics, Law and Literacy studies in 1890.Template:Citation needed

Year University Development
1858 Establishment of Keio Gijuku
1879 Keio sought financial support from the government but failed.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Instead, it became a vocational school funded by daimyōs including Shimazu clan.
1890 Departments of Economics, Law, and Letters established
1906 Graduate studies programs established
1917 School of Medicine established
1920 Keio authorized as a university, hence gaining the authority to confer degrees
1944 School of Technology established
1949 Keio authorized as a university in the post-war system
1957 School of Business and Commerce established
1962 Graduate School of Business Administration established
1981 Department of Science and Technology established
1990 School of Environmental and Information Studies and School of Policy Management established
2001 School of Nursing and Medical Care established
2004 School of Law established
2008 School of Pharmacy established
2008 Graduate School of Media Design established
Keio University in May 1912

In 1899, Keio sent six students to study abroad. In the same year, it also accepted three international students from India, Qing-dynasty China, and Siam. Eight international students entered from Taiwan (which had technically been a territory of the Japanese Empire since 1895) the following year. In 1946, Keio University began accepting female students.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 1916, Keio was visited by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Another visit in 1922 included physicist Albert Einstein, who presented a special lecture on the theory of relativity.<ref name="visitors 1">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="student science 2">Template:Cite web</ref> In 2008, Keio University was visited by Prince Charles. In 2023, Sam Altman provided a lecture on campus.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Presidents

Since the president system was established in 1881, Keio University has had 20 presidents.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

List of presidents of Keio Gijuku
No. President Tenure
1 Template:Ill 1881–1887
2 Template:Ill 1887–1890
3 Template:Ill 1890–1897
4 Eikichi Kamata 1898–1922
5 Template:Ill 1922–1923
6 Template:Ill 1923–1933
7 Template:Ill 1933–1947
8 Template:Ill 1946–1947
9 Template:Ill 1947–1956
10 Template:Ill 1956–1960
11 Template:Ill 1960–1965
12 Template:Ill 1965–1969
13 Template:Ill 1969–1973
14 Template:Ill 1973–1977
15 Template:Ill 1977–1993
16 Template:Ill 1993–2001
17 Template:Ill 2001–2009
18 Template:Ill 2009–2017
19 Template:Ill 2017–2021
20 Kohei Itoh 2021–Present

Student body

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In 2021, there were 33,469 students at Keio University, with 28,667 undergraduate students and 4,802 graduate students. Although two-thirds of the student body are males, the gender ratio differs between different majors (e.g. 56% of students are female in the Faculty of Letters, whereas in the School of Medicine, three-quarters of students are men.).<ref name="Student Enrollment" />

Demographics of student body in 2021<ref name="Student Enrollment" /><ref name="International Student">Template:Cite web</ref>
Undergraduate Graduate (Master) Graduate (Doctor) Professional Total
Total 28,667 3,034 1,408 360 33,469
Male 18,346 2,044 985 228 21,603
Female 10,321 990 423 132 11,866
International 874 861 1,735

There were 1,908 international students on May 1, 2021, with 874 undergraduate students (3.1% of total undergraduate students (=28,667)), 861 graduate students (18.0% of total graduate students (=4,802) ) and 173 other students.<ref name="International Student" /> China provided the most international students with 1,016, followed by South Korea (436), France (66), Taiwan (51), the United States (36), Indonesia (34), and Germany (29).<ref name="International Student" />

Student life

Mita Sai

Societies

In Japanese universities, student societies are known as "circles". There are over 410 circles at Keio University by estimate, including both official and unofficial circles.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Athletics

The interest of Keio's students in baseball stretches back to the early years of the 20th century. In 1913, an American touring team of players from the New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox played an exhibition game against the Keio team.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In a 1932 exhibition game, the Keio team beat the University of Michigan team, which was then touring Japan.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Keio's baseball team plays in the Tokyo Big6 Baseball League.

Kei-So rivalry

Kei-So Sen

Traditionally, there has been a strong rivalry between Keio and Waseda University. There are annually many matches between the two universities in several sports, such as baseball, rowing, rugby, lacrosse, track and field, American football, association football, aikido, karate, basketball, tennis, swimming, fencing, figure skating, ice hockey, and field hockey. These games are called "Kei–So Sen (慶早戦)" or, more generally, "So–Kei Sen (早慶戦)".

The Kei-So baseball rivalry, which has existed for over a century, holds a notable place in the history of Japanese baseball. A game played on October 16, 1943, is particularly well known and was later depicted in the 2008 film The Last Game – the Final So-Kei Sen.

American football

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Scandals

In October 2016, six male students from Keio Advertisement Society, a long-standing student club known for its organisation of the Miss Keio pageant contest, were investigated for gang rape during a club activity.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> An out-of-court settlement was reached and the students were not prosecuted.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In May 2018, another three students were arrested for sexual assaults.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In March 2017, a student tennis club was disbanded after a student died of alcohol poisoning during a club activity. Two other Keio students died due to over-drinking in 2012 and 2013.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In June 2017, the school's election committee unconventionally selected Haseyama Akira, a legal history professor who won second place at the general election among teachers and staff, to be the school's new president, breaking a 50-year convention.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In late 2019, both the American football team and the cheerleading club suspended club activities for "inappropriate behaviours".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In January 2020, it was reported that a former member of the school president's secretarial staff had installed a camera in a female toilet stall on the Mita campus, filming over a thousand videos over 3 months.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Academic rankings and reputation

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Keio ranks 53rd in the world in the Times Higher Education's Alma Mater Index.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It ranks 34th globally in the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) and 3rd in Asia.<ref name="cwur.org">Template:Cite web</ref> Keio is ranked at 58th of the Reuters Top 100 innovative universities worldwide.<ref name="reuters.com">Template:Cite news</ref> British Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) company estimates that Keio is ranked the 192nd in QS World University Rankings 2017/18.<ref name="Keio University">Template:Cite web</ref> It is ranked the 45th in QS World University Ranking 2017/18 for Graduate Employability Ranking. In the Asian University Ranking (2015), Quacquarelli Symonds also ranked Keio as 37th in Asia.<ref name="Keio University"/> The Academic Ranking of World Universities (2015), which is compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ranks Keio 151-175 in the world and 37 in Asia.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Research performance

According to Thomson Reuters, Keio is the 10th best research university in Japan, the only private university within the Top 15.<ref name="Rankings_TR_N"/> Keio has provided 3 presidents of Japanese Economic Association in its 42-year history, and this number is 5th largest.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Business

Keio University ranks second in Japan, for the number of alumni holding CEO positions in Fortune Global 500 companies, according to Mines ParisTech: Professional Ranking of World Universities.<ref name="Rankings_ENSMP_W" />

Keio Business School (KBS) is Japan's first business school and one of four Japanese institutions holding The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Eduniversal also ranked Keio as the No.1 in Japan (75th in the world).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In Eduniversal Keio is one of 3 Japanese schools categorized in "Universal Business schools with major international influence". In 2012, the Keio Business School became a founding member of the university alliance Council on Business & Society.Template:Citation needed

Medicine

There have been four presidents of Japan Medical Association related to this university (two alumni and two professors).<ref group=note>Kitasato Shibasaburō, Taichi Kitajima, Taro Takemi and Toshiro Murase</ref> This number is the 2nd largest among Japanese medical schools.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Keio is one of 2 Japanese universities which provided a president for the World Medical Association.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Law

In 2010 and 2015, Keio University Law School ranked highest among all Japanese universities for the Bar Exam passage rate.<ref>2010年(平成22年)新司法試験法科大学院別合格率ランキング -法科大学院seek. Laws.shikakuseek.com. Retrieved on 2014-06-17.</ref> The number of Members in Parliament who graduated from Keio is the 3rd highest in Japan.<ref name="Asahi ranking">"University rankings 2011" The Asahi Shimbun</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Popularity and selectivity

Nikkei BP has been publishing a ranking system called "Brand rankings of Japanese universities" every year, composed of various indicators relating to the reputation and brand power of Japanese institutions. Keio University was placed 1st in 2014, and ranked 2nd in 2015 and 2016 in the Greater Tokyo Area.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Webometrics (2008) also ranks Keio University as 3rd in Japan, 11th in Asia, and 208th in the world for quantity and quality of web presence and link visibility.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Evaluation from Business World

The university ranking according to the order of the evaluation by Personnel Departments of Leading Companies in Japan
Ranking
Japan 15th<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> (out of 781<ref name="jpu">Template:Cite web</ref>　universities in Japan as of 2020)
Source 2020 Nikkei Survey<ref name="r.nikkei">Template:Cite web</ref> to all listed (3,714<ref name="jpx">Template:Cite web</ref>) and leading unlisted (1,100), totally 4,814 companies<ref name="r.nikkei" />

Finance

Operating revenues/expenses in 2010<ref name="financial report1">Template:Cite web</ref>
Revenues (yen in millions) ratio Expenses (yen in millions) ratio
Tuition and fees 49,204 24.97% Compensation and benefits 65,270 33.12%
Investment return 4,170 2.12% Education & Research 52,148 26.46%
Capital gain 20,817 10.56% Investment 32,923 16.71%
National appropriation/Grants (Direct) 17,082 8.67% Repayment of debt 13,236 6.72%
Medical care 48,274 24.50%
Debt loan 11,680 5.93%
Endowments 5,475 2.78%
Total 197,061 100.00% Total 197,061 100.00%

According to Keio's financial report, there was an operating revenue of 197 billion yen in 2010.<ref name="financial report1"/> The top three largest incomes were from "tuition and fees", "medical care" and "capital gain", with 49 billion yen, 48 billion yen and 21 billion yen respectively. The number of endowments in 2010 was about 5 billion yen. Keio is known for having one of the largest financial endowments of any Japanese university.<ref>e.g. Keio was top in 2007 and 2008 in terms of the number of endowments.[1]</ref>

On the other hand, the top 3 largest expenses in 2010 were "Compensation and benefits", "Education & Research" and "Investment", with 65 billion yen, 52 billion yen and 33 billion yen respectively. The total asset value in 2010 was about 364 billion yen with an increase of 5 billion yen. In addition, the total amount of assets under management was approximately 109 billion yen in 2010, composed mainly of cash, deposits with banks and marketable securities.<ref name="financial report1"/> Template:Clear

Tuition fees

Tuition fees<ref name="Tuition fees1">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Tuition fees2">Template:Cite web</ref>
Undergraduate 4 years in Total (yen) Per year (yen)
Social Science & Humanities 4,440,000 1,110,000
Natural Science & Engineering 6,280,000 1,570,000
SFC 5,320,000 1,330,000
School of Medicine 14,440,000 3,610,000
Graduate 2 years in Total (yen) Per year (yen)
Social Science & Humanities 1,380,000 690,000
Natural Science & Engineering 1,965,000 983,000
SFC 2,071,000 1,035,000
School of Medicine 2,625,000 1,313,000


At Keio University, tuition fees vary and depends on the course. Social Science & Humanity studies have the lowest fees at approximately 1,110,000 yen per year, with the School of Medicine having the highest fees of around 3,610,000 yen per year.<ref name="Tuition fees1"/> The tuition fees for various graduate schools cost much less than those for undergraduate studies, e.g. 690,000 yen per year for Social Science & Humanities and 1,313,000 yen per year for School of Medicine.<ref name="Tuition fees2"/>

Although it is acceptable to pay twice with half in spring and half in autumn, the "entrance fee" must be paid before enrolment. The entrance fee for undergraduate study is 200,000 yen and the one for graduate study is 310,000 yen.<ref name="Tuition fees1"/><ref name="Tuition fees2"/>

Scholarship/loan

Scholarship/loan<ref name="Scholarship1">Template:Cite web</ref>
2008 the number of students ratio average amount (yen)
Total using scholarship/loan 9,764 30.25%
Total of using scholarship funded by Keio 3,000 9.30% 300,000
International students (undergraduate) 397 appx. 100% 259,942
International students (graduate) 359 appx. 75% 517,473

In 2008, 9,764 students (about 30% of all students) used either scholarships or loans throughout their studies.<ref name="Scholarship1"/> Additionally, Keio funds over 3,000 students who receive, on average, scholarships of 300,000 yen.<ref name="Scholarship1"/>

Organization

New South building on Mita Campus
Kitasato Memorial Medical Library on Shinanomachi campus
3rd Building on Shiba Kyoritsu campus

Faculties

Keio University has ten undergraduate faculties, with each operating independently and offering educational and research activities. The faculties, with a planned annual number of enrolled first-year students in parentheses, are:

  • Faculty of Letters (800)
  • Faculty of Economics (1200)
  • Faculty of Law (1200)
  • Faculty of Business and Commerce (1000)
  • School of Medicine (112)
  • Faculty of Science and Technology (932)
  • Faculty of Policy Management (425)
  • Faculty of Environment and Information Studies (425)
  • Faculty of Nursing and Medical Care (100)
  • Faculty of Pharmacy (210)

Graduate schools

Keio has fourteen graduate schools. Many professors are associated with both an undergraduate faculty and a graduate school.

  • Graduate School of Letters
  • Graduate School of Economics
  • Graduate School of Law
  • Graduate School of Human Relations
  • Graduate School of Business and Commerce
  • Graduate School of Medicine
  • Graduate School of Science and Technology
  • Graduate School of Business Administration
  • Graduate School of Media and Governance
  • Graduate School of Health Management
  • Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Law School
  • Graduate School of Media Design
  • Graduate School of System Design and Management

Media Centers

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  • Mita Media Center
  • Hiyoshi Media Center
  • Media Center for Science and Technology
  • Shinanomachi Media Center
  • SFC Media Center

Information technology Centers

  • ITC Headquarters
  • Mita ITC
  • Hiyoshi ITC
  • Shinanomachi ITC
  • Science & Technology ITC
  • Shonan Fujisawa ITC

Hospital

Keio University Hospital

Keio University Hospital is one of the largest general hospitals in Japan,Template:Citation needed the number of surgeries for carcinoma uteri in 2007 was top and the one for lung cancer was third among all university hospitals.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The number of trainee doctors who selected Keio as their first choice training hospital was 30 (33rd) among all Japanese teaching hospitals in 2010.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Established in 1920, it has over 1,000 beds, a leading laboratory, and research and medical information divisions.<ref name="ogi.keio.ac.jp"/>

Campuses

Hiyoshi Commemorative Hall

There are eleven campuses.

Notable alumni

Keio alumni include Japanese prime ministers Shigeru Ishiba (2024–2025), Junichiro Koizumi (2001–2006), Ryutaro Hashimoto (1996–1998), and Tsuyoshi Inukai (1931–1932). Dozens of other alumni have been cabinet members and governors in the post-war period.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Keio alumni include 230 CEOs of major companies and 97 CEOs of foreign-affiliated companies.<ref name="ogi.keio.ac.jp">http://www.ogi.keio.ac.jp/english/Keio-University-pamphlet.pdf Template:Webarchive (This link no longer exists. The paper-based pamphlet is only available. October 10, 2011)</ref> Keio has over 320,000 alumni in 866 alumni associations.<ref name="ogi.keio.ac.jp"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Politicians

Former Japanese prime minister Tsuyoshi Inukai (1931–1932)
Former Japanese prime minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (1996–1998)
Former Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi (2001–2006)
Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba (2024–2025)

Public servants, international Organizations

Central Bank Governors

Astronauts

Finance

Media

American sociologist Ted Nelson

Business

Academia

JAXA astronaut Chiaki Mukai

Art

Others

Notable faculty

Books

See also

Notes

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