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Ritsumeikan University (立命館大学 Ritsumeikan Daigaku)
is a private university in
Kyoto,
Japan. It also has a satellite campus in
Kusatsu,
Shiga prefecture, and an international campus in
Beppu,
Oita prefecture.
Ritsumeikan was founded by Prince
Kimmochi Saionji in
1869, and was upgraded to full university status in
1922. Historically, the school was seen as a liberal alternative to
the state-run
Kyoto University. Today, Ritsumeikan is one of Japan's most
internationalized mainstream universities: it has exchange programs with
hundreds of schools worldwide, and dual degree programs with the
University of British Columbia and
American University.
Its name literally means "place to establish one's destiny," and was
adapted from a
Mencius quotation.
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