title: Hyogo University
text: # Hyogo University
  
  Hyogo University (兵庫大学, Hyōgo daigaku) is a private university in Japan. Its campus is located in Shinzaike, Hiraoka-cho, Kakogawa, Hyōgo Prefecture. The university is one of the seven schools run by Mutsumi Gakuen (睦学園), a school foundation with a Buddhist background (Nishi Hongwanji denomination).
  
  ## History
  
  ### Mutsumi Gakuen
  
  * 1921: Taishi Sunday School was started in memory of the 1300th anniversary of Shotoku Taishi's death.
  * 1923: Suma Taishi Hall was opened in Suma-ku, Kobe, to which the Training Course of Sewing (a girls' school) was attached.
  * 1937: Suma Taishi Hall Foundation was incorporated. The foundation established Suma Mutsumi Girls' Vocational School (Sumanoura Girls' High School today).
  * 1951: The school foundation was renamed Mutsumi Gakuen.
  * 1955: The school foundation established Mutsumi Gakuen Women's Junior College.
  * 1966: The junior college was renamed Hyogo Women's Junior College, moving from Suma-ku, Kobe to Kakogawa.
  
  ### Hyogo University
  
  * 1995: Mutsumi Gakuen established Hyogo University.
     * with one faculty: Faculty of Economics and Information Science
  * 1998: The junior college was reorganized into the Junior College Department of Hyogo University.
  * 1999: Graduate School of Economics and Information Science was established.
  * 2001: The Faculty of Health Science was added.
     * with Departments of Nutrition Management and Health System Management
  * 2006: The Department of Nursing was added.
  
  ## Faculties (Undergraduate schools)
  
  * Faculty of Economics and Information Science
  * Faculty of Health Science
     * Department of Nutrition Management
     * Department of Health System Management
     * Department of Nursing
  * Faculty of Welfare Society
  
  ## Graduate schools
  
  * Graduate School of Economics and Information Science (Master's courses only)
  