Ibaraki University - Timeline

Timeline

• 1952, April - Ibaraki Prefectural University of Agriculture (Noka Daigaku) was placed under national management and established as the College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University
• 1955, June - Establishment of Izura Institute of Arts and Culture
• 1955, July - Establishment of the Junior College of Technology
• 1967, June - Establishment of the College of Humanities, the College of Science, and the College of Liberal Arts as a result of the reorganization of the College of Arts and Sciences
• 1968, April - Establishment of the Graduate School of Engineering
• 1969, January - Establishment of the Institute of General Regional Studies*
• 1970, April - Establishment of the Graduate School of Agriculture
• 1973, April - Opening of the University Health Center
• 1979, April - Establishment of the Graduate School of Science
• 1985, April - Became a constitutive university for the United Graduate School of Agricultural Science (Doctoral program) in Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
• 1985, July - Establishment of the Information Processing Center*
• 1988, April - Establishment of the Graduate School of Education
• 1989, May - Establishment of the Center for Cooperative Research and Development
• 1991, April - Establishment of the Graduate School of Humanities, and the Center for Instrumental Analysis
• 1992, April - Establishment of the Center for Education and Research in Lifelong Learning
• 1993, March - Abolition of the Junior College of Technology
• 1993, April - Establishment of the Graduate School of Engineering (Doctoral program)
• 1995, April - Merger of the Graduate School of Engineering and the Graduate School of Science into the Graduate School of Science and Engineering
• 1996, March - Abolition of the College of Liberal Arts
• 1996, April - Establishment of Center for Research and Development in University Education*
• 1997, April - Establishment of Center for Water Environmental Studies
• 1998, April - Reorganization of Information Processing Center
• 1999, April - Opening of Gene Research Center

* indicates facilities established according to the university's internal decisions.