In response to an offer from the Tokyo Dental College, Keio Gijuku decided and announced at the Board of Trustees on November 2020, 11 that it would start discussions on the integration of the Tokyo Dental College School of Dentistry and the merger of corporations.The merger and corporate merger are scheduled for April 26.Keio University will be the first comprehensive university in Japan to have four medical faculties (Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Nursing and Medical Care, Faculty of Pharmacy, and Faculty of Dentistry).
At Tokyo Dental College, the founder Kisai Takayama and the founder Morinosuke Chiwaki are both from Keio University. In 2020, we will celebrate the 130th anniversary of our founding.This time, after the institutional decision, on November 2020, 11, we requested Keio University to integrate the Faculty of Dentistry into Keio University and merge the corporation.
Through this integration and corporate merger, Keio University will improve its research and educational capabilities as a comprehensive university by strengthening and developing medical-dental collaboration, strengthening and developing medical-science-engineering collaboration, and applying Keio's cutting-edge technology to dentistry. Raise.In addition, Keio University will not only contribute significantly to the realization of a healthy and long-lived society by promoting interdisciplinary research and education by having four medical faculties (medical school, nursing medical school, pharmacy, and dentistry) for the first time as a comprehensive university in Japan. It is said that the range of career choices for students at Keio University's integrated education school will be expanded.
