Doshisha University

Doshisha University
同志社大学
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Motto	Latin: Veritas liberabit vos
Motto in English	"Truth shall make you free"
Type	Private
Established	Founded 1875, chartered 1920
Endowment	€1 billion (JP¥169.6 billion)
President	Matsuoka Takashi
Vice-president	Nobuhiro Tabata, Yasuhiro Kuroki, Tsutao Katayama, Takashi Nishimura
Academic staff	2,357 (800 full-time, 1557 part-time)
Undergraduates	27,024
Postgraduates	2,298
Location	Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan; 35°01′47″N 135°45′39″E / 35.029737°N 135.760725°E
Campus	Urban/suburban, 530 acres (210 ha)
Colors	White & purple
Nickname	Dodai (同大, Dōdai)
Mascot	Astro Boy (unofficial and historical)
Website	www.doshisha.ac.jp/en/index.html

Doshisha University (同志社大学, Dōshisha daigaku), also referred to as Dodai (同大, Dōdai), is a private university in Kyoto, Japan. Established in 1875, it is one of Japan's oldest private institutions of higher learning, and has approximately 30,000 students enrolled on four campuses in Kyoto.^[1] It is one of Japan's "Global 30" universities^[2] and a member of "Kan-Kan-Dō-Ritsu" (関関同立), a group of four leading private universities in western Japan's Kansai region, along with Kansai University, Kwansei Gakuin University, and Ritsumeikan University.

^ "About Doshisha: Fact". Doshisha University. Retrieved July 21, 2013.
^ "Selection results - Project for Establishing University Network for Internationalization (Global 30) - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science". www.jsps.go.jp. Archived from the original on 13 December 2009. Retrieved 6 May 2019.

[About_Doshisha-1] "About Doshisha: Fact". Doshisha University. Retrieved July 21, 2013.

[2] "Selection results - Project for Establishing University Network for Internationalization (Global 30) - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science". www.jsps.go.jp. Archived from the original on 13 December 2009. Retrieved 6 May 2019.

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