Nakamura Gakuen University is a private university in the city of Fukuoka, Japan. The university began life as Fukuoka High School of Nutrition Studies in 1954. It was chartered as a junior college in 1957 and became a four-year college in 1965.
There are about 4,000 students across an undergraduate school, graduate school and junior college. About one per cent of students are international.
There are three undergraduate faculties: nutritional sciences, education and business, marketing and distribution. The faculty of nutritional sciences has two departments: nutritional sciences and food management.
The graduate school offers master's courses in the same faculty areas as undergraduate degrees, as well as a doctoral course in nutritional sciences. Nakamura Gakuen University Junior College has three divisions: food and nutrition, career development and early childhood care and education.
Facilities include a library of more than 220,000 books, the Health Promotion Center for research activities for the promotion of health, the Nutrition Clinic, the Institute of Preventive and Medicinal Dietetics, Institute of Distribution Sciences for academic and international research on food safety and security, the Development Support Center for research on development support for children, and the Seminar House Hokusan on the lakefront, which has a gymnastic hall, training hall, cafeteria facilities and inexpensive student accommodation.
The original founder established the institution under three principles, by which the school still goes: never forget your origins, maintain and respect your own belief, be grateful at all times and work diligently; physical forms are expressions of the soul; education and research which unites academia and daily life.
