Meiji University


Meiji University is a private university with campuses in Tokyo and Kawasaki, founded in 1881 by three Meiji-era lawyers, Kishimoto Tatsuo, Miyagi Kōzō, and Yashiro Misao. It is one of the few most prestigious Japanese universities with famous alumni in various fields according to major college-preparatory schools in Japan.
The University has nine schools with a total of approximately 33,000 students on four campuses in Ochanomizu in Chiyoda, Tokyo, the Izumi neighborhood of Suginami-ku, Tokyo, the Ikuta neighborhood of Tama-ku, Kawasaki, and in the Nakano neighborhood of Nakano.
Their most known schools are the school of law, the school of political science and economics, and the school of commerce. The school of political science and economics has sent many famous alumni to the Japanese political world. The three former world leaders, Miki Takeo, Murayama Tomiichi, and Zhou Enlai, previously studied at this university. The acceptance rate varies by school, but the average is usually around 15% throughout the university. The University is one of the most prestigious Tokyo six universities known as "Tokyo-roku-daigaku." The league of the Tokyo six universities is a Japanese collegiate athletic conference comprising baseball teams from the mix of one public and five private universities, which is identical to America's Ivy League.
The university is also one of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's thirteen "Global 30" Project universities, which as of 2014 is called the Super Global Universities program.

Organization

Undergraduate schools

Meiji University's baseball team belongs to the Tokyo Big6 Baseball League. Every year, rugby union and baseball matches Meisōsen against Waseda University attract support among its students. It also has a successful judo team.
The university announced on February 26, 2009, that it would open a museum dedicated to anime and manga. It will include international research centers hosting Japanese and international scholars as well as a large quality of artifacts on the subject.

Academic rankings

Meiji University is one of the leading universities in Japan.

General Rankings

The university has been ranked 19th and 26th in 2009 and 2010 respectively in the ranking "Truly Strong Universities" by Toyo Keizai.

Research performance

The Nikkei Shimbun on 16 February 2004 surveyed about the research standards in engineering studies based on Thomson Reuters, :ja:科学研究費補助金|Grants in Aid for Scientific Research and questionnaires to heads of 93 leading Japanese Research Centers, and Meiji was placed 37th in this ranking.
Meiji has filed the 62nd highest number of patents in the nation as its research outcomes.

Graduate school rankings

Meiji Law School is considered as one of the top Japanese law schools, as Meiji's number of successful candidates for Japanese bar examination has been 14th and 20th in 2009 and 2010 respectively. It is one of the strongest department in this university as the cumulative number of people qualified as lawyer and prosecutor has been historically 6th after WW2.
Eduniversal ranked Meiji as 4th in the rankings of "Excellent Business Schools nationally strong and/or with continental links" in Japan.

Alumni rankings

Graduates from Meiji enjoy good success in the Japanese industries.
According to the :ja:エコノミスト |Weekly Economist's 2010 rankings, graduates from Meiji University have the 35th best employment rate in 400 major companies
The university is also ranked 6th in Japan for the number of alumni holding the position of executive in the listed companies of Japan, and this number per student is 25th.
Meiji graduates have been ranked 5th in Japan in the number of successful national CPA exam applicants. Its graduates have been also ranked 9th in Japan in the number of successful Architect Registration exam applicants.
Furthermore, the number of Members of Parliament who graduated Meiji is 6th in Japan.

Popularity and selectivity

Meiji is a popular university in Japan. The number of applicants per place was 24.9 in the 2011 undergraduate admissions, this number of applicants was largest in 2011. Its entrance difficulty is also very selective.

Alumni

Politics

World Leaders