Meiji Pharmaceutical University

Meij Pharmaceutical university has a long history and tradition over 100 years since it was founded by Shigenobu Onda in 1902. Our university has produced competent and distinguished experts with leadership skills in wide rage of fields of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences.

In order to respond for the recent rapid change of healthcare environment, in which medical techniques has been highly progressive and skills of professional pharmacists has improved, our university established the Department of Pharmacy(6 year course) and the Department of Life and Pharmaceutical Sciences(4 year course).

We have offered the excellent faculty and distinctive curriculum, and state-of-the art educational facilities as well. The faculty includes a number of alumni, who work with students very closely and provide a great deal of support. We wish our students to study and spend their college life in our beautiful, spacious campus located in the suburb of Tokyo, which brings a quiet and relaxing atmosphere.

Newly graduates of our university have maintained highly success rate in the National Exam for Pharmacists. In addition, with a consistently high job placement rate, our university is high in the ranks of the top pharmaceutical schools in Japan.

The university, as the flagship university, is committed to leading the pharmacy education and having responsibilities to train highly professional leders in various fields of health care and pharmacy, including distinguished pharmacists, researchers or experts of drug discovery and life sciences.

The library is equipped with 264 seats and provides open-shelf services where all users can browse freely. Current holdings include 140,000 books, 114 domestic and 139 overseas scientific journals. An audiovisual room and a group study room are equiped within the library, so that students can use them for those purposes. The library provides 3 PCs exclusively for searching data, 6 PCs in the audiovisual room, and 20 PCs in a self-study room located on the second floor. Wireless local area network(Wireless LAN)is also provided, and enables access for students' personal laptops in the library.

The center for Instrumental analysis was founded in April 1971, for the purpose of "contributions to the process of educational research of Meiji Pharmaceutical University with doing the administration, management of the joint-use Instruments for educational research".

Facilities: It is located in the first floor of the research ridges and the fourth floor. Floorage is about 790 m2. Instruments: FT NMR spectrometer (270, 300, 400, 500 MHz), GC mass spectrometer, elemental analyzer, protein sequencer, amino acid analyzer.

The Computer Assisted Learning Laboratory room (CALL Room) houses 70 computers connected to the university LAN. The room is also equipped with Language Lab devices such as audio and video cassette recorders/players, laser disk player,etc. From the server computer, teachers are able to control each computer in this room, monitoring the work being done by individual students or operating the student computers by remote control.

The University provides more effective education in classes or seminars for information processing practice, foreign languages (English and German), medicinal drug-related information, statistics etc., by making full use of specialist software, the Internet and a VOD (video on demand) system.

There are a variety of plants, including original plants of herbal medicine listed in the Japanese Pharmacopoeia, have been planted and displayed in the Medicinal Plant Garden. The primary educational purpose of the Garden is to have students learn the history of pharmaceutical sciences through lectures and hands-on practice. In addition it gives our students the opportunities to observe or cultivate medicinal plants which are regarded as a significant resource material for medicines, and the origin of herbal plants. Meanwhile medicinal plants and herbal medicine are deeply ingrained within our daily life, especially the recent popularity of healthy living has boosted the interests of Kampo(Japanese herbal medicine) or medicinal plants, from a viewpoint of self-medication and preventive medicine. We open the garden to the public so that we have promoted the spread of knowledge about traditional medicine. Many varieties of mountain grasses are planted in a shady section which offers attractive aspects to people visiting in different seasons. Japan Pharmacists Education Center has promoted "Training courses for certification in the use of Chinese herbal medicine and natural drugs", that is one of the center's continuing education program. Meiji Pharmaceutical Medicinal Plant Garden is among those cooperating gardens to accept trainees for practical observation of the corse.