Updated: July 2025, 3

Shiga Prefectural University

Foster global human resources who will create the future with practical learning and a wide range of sensibilities

The University of Shiga Prefecture is a comprehensive university that has 4 departments in 13 faculties: Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, and Faculty of Human Nursing, where you can study from humanities, social sciences to natural sciences.The field of learning is expanding to the region and the world, such as learning the culture and basics that cultivate a broad perspective, specialized learning consisting of various fields, and learning in the region and the world that face challenges.Through an education system that creates the future with a wide range of sensibilities and learning to hone an international sense through short-term and long-term study abroad, we are developing human resources with internationally applicable knowledge and practical skills.

List of faculties / departments
Faculty of Environmental ScienceDepartment of Environmental Ecology Capacity 30 people
Department of Environmental Policy and Planning Capacity 40 people
Department of Environmental Architectural Design Capacity 50 people
Department of Biological Resource Management Capacity 60 people
Faculty of EngineeringDepartment of Materials Chemistry Capacity 50 people
Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering Capacity 50 people
Department of Electronic Systems Engineering Capacity 50 people
Faculty of Humanities and CultureDepartment of Regional Cultural Studies Capacity 60 people
Lifestyle Design Department Capacity 30 people
Department of Living Nutrition Capacity 30 people
Human relations department Capacity 30 people
Department of International Communication Capacity 50 people
Faculty of Human NursingHuman Nursing Department Capacity 70 people

Contact information, address, etc.
Zip Code522-8533
Address2500, Hassaka-cho, Hikone-shi, Shiga
DepartmentAcademic Affairs Division Entrance Examination Room
Phone0749-28-8217

Other
Official pagehttps://www.usp.ac.jp/

List of articles of University of Shiga Prefecture

Shiga Prefectural College of Technology, scheduled to open in 2028, to have Kyoto University Professor Emeritus Takayuki Kitamura as its first principal

　The Shiga Prefectural College of Technology, which Shiga Prefecture aims to open in Yasu City, Shiga Prefecture in spring 2028, is expected to have a new president, a man who has served as a vice president and director at Kyoto University.

Forest happiness measurement to prevent residents from leaving the mountains, such as Kobe University and the Institute of Earth Sciences

　Due to the prolonged slump in the forestry industry, Japanese people are becoming more and more distant from the mountains, but Kobe University, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, University of Shiga Prefecture, Kyoto University, Waseda […]

World's first successful seismic velocity measurement of basaltic material at the top of the lower mantle

　The joint research group, including the Geodynamics Research Center at Ehime University, is a major high-pressure mineral in the mantle, CaSiO […].

List of articles of University of Shiga Prefecture