北海道情報大学 | |
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Established | 1968 |
| Location | Ebetsu , Hokkaidō , Japan |
| Website | Official website |
Hokkaido Information University(北海道情報大学Hokkaidō Jōhō Daigaku) is a private university in Ebetsu, Ishikari Subprefecture, Hokkaidō, Japan.
A public university is a university that is publicly owned or receives significant public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private university. Whether a national university is considered public varies from one country to another, largely depending on the specific education landscape.
Ebetsu is a city in Ishikari Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.
Ishikari Subprefecture is a subprefecture of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan, located in the western part of the island. The subprefecture covers 3,539.86 square kilometres (1,366.75 sq mi) and in 2011 had a population of 2,334,241. The subprefecture takes its name from the Ishikari River, the third longest in Japan, which flows through western Hokkaido and empties into the Sea of Japan in the city of Ishikari. There are 6 cities, three towns, and one village under its jurisdiction. Sapporo is both the capital of Hokkaido Prefecture and Ishikari Subprefecture. Shikotsu-Toya National Park is located in the southern part of the subprefecture, and Shokanbetsu-Teuri-Yagishiri Quasi-National Park in the north.
It was initially established in April 1968 with the name Hokkaido Electronics Computer School. Since 1989, Hokkaido Information University became the officially adopted name.
Currently it holds international exchange agreements with Nanjing University, Shenyang Normal University in China; University of California, Santa Cruz in USA; and Rajamangala University of Technology in Thailand.
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Shenyang Normal University is a broad-based university in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China under the provincial government.
The University of California, Santa Cruz is a public research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of 10 campuses in the University of California system. Located 75 miles (120 km) south of San Francisco at the edge of the coastal community of Santa Cruz, the campus lies on 2,001 acres (810 ha) of rolling, forested hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Monterey Bay.
