Okayama University of Science
Okayama University of Science (岡山理科大学, Okayama rika daigaku) is a private university in Okayama, Japan. It was founded in 1964 and mainly focuses on science and engineering.
From 2015 to 2018, the university’s operator, the Kake Gakuen group, sought permission to open a new veterinary medicine school in Ehime Prefecture on Shikoku Island, as a branch of Okayama University of Science. The push to speed up regulatory approval led to accusations of improper influence, with reports that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was friends with Kotaro Kake, the group’s owner.
In 2020, it was reported that all ethnically Korean applicants to the new veterinary program (which began accepting students in October 2019) were denied admission and given very low scores on their entrance exams.
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Website: www.ous.ac.jp/en/
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