Kyushu Institute of Technology

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Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT, or 九州工業大学 Kyushu Kougyou Daigaku) was founded with government permission as a private training school for engineers called Meiji Senmon Gakkou (Meiji College of Technology) in 1907, towards the end of the Meiji era. It later became a Japanese national university, and has recently been incorporated (i.e. semi-privatised) under a new law which applies to all national universities. It is a moot point how far this is a genuine educational reform and how far it is simply a cost-cutting exercise by the Japanese Ministry of Education (Monbukagakusho, or Monkasho). A chronology is provided in English here.

KIT has three campuses. Two of these are in Kitakyushu and one is in Iizuka. All three are in Fukuoka prefecture, Kyushu.

1. Tobata campus (Kitakyushu) - Faculty of Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering

2. Iizuka campus - Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Computer Science and Systems Engineering

3. Wakamatsu campus (Kitakyushu) - Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering

External links

• KIT official home page (English)
• KIT official page (Japanese)

ja:九州工業大学