Waseda University 早稻田大学

Waseda University(早稲田大学,Waseda Daigaku), abbreviated as Sōdai(早大), is a large, private university with a main campus located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. First established in 1882 as the Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō or Tōkyō College by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the school obtained university accreditation and was formally renamed as Waseda University in 1902. The university consists of 13 undergraduate schools and 23 graduate schools. Waseda is one of a select group of universities assigned additional funding under the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's "Global 30" Project.