Miyagi Gakuin Women's University

Miyagi Gakuin Women's University

宮城学院女子大学
Miyagi Gakuin Women's University
Type	Private
Established	1886 / 1949
Location	Aoba-ku, Sendai , Miyagi Prefecture , Japan
Website	Official website

Miyagi Gakuin Women's University (宮城学院女子大学, Miyagi gakuin joshi daigaku) is a private university in Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.

History[]

The Miyagi Girls' School was founded by the Reformed Church in the United States in Japan with the assistance of missionaries Masayoshi Oshikawa and William Edwin Hoy in 1886.^[1] It was expanded into a high school in 1911, and chartered as a university in 1946.

Organization[]

Undergraduate[]

• Faculty of Arts
  • Department of English
  • Japanese Literature Department
  • Department of Human Culture
  • Psychology Department of Behavioral Sciences
  • Music department
  • Food and Nutrition Department
  • Life and Culture Department of Design
  • Department of clinical development
  • International Culture Department
  • Children's Department of Education

Graduate[]

• Humanities Graduate School of Humanities
  • English, Department of English and American Literature
  • Japanese Language and Literature Department
  • Human Culture Department
  • Life and Culture Design Department
  • Health and Nutrition Studies

Alumni[]

• Toshiko Abe - politician
• Sayaka Ando - gravure idol

References[]

External links[]

• Official website (in Japanese)

Coordinates: 38°18′21.8″N 140°51′14.3″E / 38.306056°N 140.853972°E / 38.306056; 140.853972

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