President's Office

Message from the President

Masahiro TATSUMISAGO
President

Osaka Metropolitan University is a new public general university formed by a merger between Osaka City University and Osaka Prefecture University and established in April 2022.
Although both the new university’s predecessors were public universities boasting histories dating back approximately 140 years, their paths to the present day had been very different. Osaka City University was originally founded in 1880 as the Osaka Commercial Training Institute by a group of influential business figures at the time that included Tomoatsu GODAI. Since its rebirth in 1949 under the new university system as Osaka City University, it has continued to preserve its long tradition until the present day. Osaka Prefecture University traces its origins to the foundation of a training school in veterinary science in 1883, after which it merged with other institutions, including the Prefectural Agricultural School and Osaka Higher Technical School, before making a fresh start in 1949 as Naniwa University. Even after changing its name to Osaka Prefecture University in 1955, it has continued to evolve, including mergers with universities specializing in social welfare and nursing and a reorganization of its schools and departments in 2012 into a new system based on colleges and departments.
The different histories and cultures of these two former universities were their greatest strength. I view their merger as an opportunity for further progress, and am confident that it will result in the creation of diverse new values. From the research perspective in particular, the new university offers a full lineup of academic fields that highly complement each other, and I believe that it will result in synergies in many different fields. Our aim is to become a world-class advanced research university in areas including medical–engineering partnerships, disaster prevention, energy, and others.
The catchphrase for our opening is “Beyond the norm.” Living in an unpredictable world, multidisciplinary knowledge is an essential quality required of us. I believe that constructing a solid foundation by deepening our individual areas of  specialized knowledge and then challenging ourselves to integrate this with other disciplines as multidisciplinary knowledge is important for  resolving complex social issues.
With 12 schools and colleges and more than 15 graduate schools, Osaka Metropolitan University offers numerous unique curricula designed to foster the ability to handle a wide range of issues, as well as the opportunity to gain multidisciplinary knowledge. I am proud that this university will offer every individual student an opportunity to work on achieving their full potential in their own way.