; abbreviated as or , is a national university in Saga, Saga Prefecture, Japan. The university has five faculties with around 7,000 students. Its two campuses are in and . History The history of Saga University is complicated. The oldest Saga teacher's school was demoted to a prefectural school by the law of teacher's schools. started in 1920. This high school is the origin of Saga University. Then, and started in 1943-1944. These schools were named "Saga University" in 1949. started in 1976. Saga University and Saga Medical School merged in 2003. And the National University was corporatised in 2004. Campus locations Campus: Honjo, Saga City Campus: Nabeshima, Saga City Faculties and graduate schools Faculties Campus Culture and Education Economics Science and Engineering Agriculture Campus Medicine Graduate schools Campus Education (Master's programme) Economics (Master's programme) Engineering (Master's and Doctorate programme) Agriculture (Master's programme) Campus Medicine (Master's and Doctorate programme) Other The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University (Doctorate programme) Exchange program Saga University offers an exchange program called SPACE (Saga University Program for Academic Exchange). SPACE is a one-year program, with its main purpose to increase the exchange student's Japanese skills. SPACE offers independent study that allows the exchange student to conduct a simple research project with a professor. Ranking From "World Universities' ranking on the Web: top 4,000 World Ranking." in July 2008, Saga University (Japan) was ranked 1298. Alumni Muhammed Alamgir (geotechnical engineer and university vice-chancellor) Heiji Ogawa (Japanese governor) Hiroshi Tanaka (researcher) Jianbo Chen (researcher) Kozueko Morimoto (cartoonist) References External links Saga University website World Universities' ranking on the Web Japanese national universities Universities and colleges in Saga Prefecture