History

Brief History

Meisei University was inaugurated in 1964 with five departments of Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering at the Hino Campus. In the next year, three Departments of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences were established with the Department of Economics added the next year.

The parent body of Meisei University is Meisei Gakuen Institute, which has provided a fulfilling educational experience on the primary and secondary levels in Fuchu City, Tokyo, since 1923. Meisei, incidentally, denotes the planet Venus in an ancient reading taken from classical Chinese. In 1967, the University was licensed to start Distance Education with a single Department of Psychology and Pedagogy.

It should be also noted that Meisei University is one of the first higher educational institutions in the country to offer Postgraduate Distance Education.

April 1923	Meisei Jitsumu School is founded.
February 1927	The school is reorganized to Meisei Junior High School.
April 1948	Meisei High School is founded.
September 1949	Meisei Kindergarten is founded.
April 1950	Meisei Elementary School is founded.
March 1951	The school is reorganized to Meisei Gakuen.
April1964	Meisei University is founded in Hino City; the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering is established at Hino campus. Founder/First president: Kuju Kodama.
April 1965	The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is established.
April 1967	The Correspondence Course are established.
April 1971	The Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences is established.
April 1972	The Graduate School of Physical Sciences and Engineering is established.
February 1982	Tokyo Lincoln Center is opened.
October 1983	The Research Center for Postwar Educational History of Japan is opened.
November 1983	The Information Science Research Center is opened.
April 1992	Meisei University opened another new campus in Ome City. The Faculty of Informatics and the Faculty of Japanese Culture are established at Ome campus.
April 1994	Shakespeare Hall is opened.
April 1998	The Graduate School of Informatics is established.
April 1999	The Correspondence Courses in the Graduate School are established.
April 2001	The Faculty of Economics is established.
April 2005	The School of Art and Design is established. The Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Electrical Engineering, the Department of Architecture, the Department of Environmental Systems, the Department of International Studies, the Department of Business Administration, the Department of Information Science are established.
April 2007	Hino Campus is renewed.
April 2010	The Department of Japanese Culture is established in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. (Reorganized: The faculty of Japanese Culture, Department of Language & Culture) The Department of Social Work Practice is established in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. The Department of Psychology is established in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. (Reorganized: the Department of Psychology/Education, the Special Course on Psychology) The Department of Composite Science and Technology is established. (Reorganized: the Department of Physics, the Department of Chemistry, the Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, the Department of Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering, the Department of Architecture, the Department of Environmental Systems) The Student Support Center is opened (Merged: the Department of Student Affairs, the Student Life/Career Support Center, the Study Support Center) Meisei Education Center is opened.
April 2012	The School of Business Administration is established.
April 2014	The School of Design is established.
April 2017	The School of Psychology is established.