Ochanomizu University (お茶の水女子大学 Ochanomizu Joshi Daigaku) is a Women's university in Bunkyō-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Ochanomizu University is one of the top national universities in Japan.
The university traces its origins to 1875,when Tokyo Women's Normal School was founded in Tokyo's Ochanomizu neighborhood (now Yushima, Bunkyo-ku). It subsequently underwent a series of name changes: "The Women's Campus of Tokyo Normal School", "The Women's Campus of Higher Normal School", "Women's Higher Normal School", and "Tokyo Women’s Higher Normal School.
The original campus was destroyed in the Great Kantō earthquake; on 31 August 1932, a new campus was established in its present location in the Ōtsuka neighborhood of Bunkyō, Tokyo, where the school buildings were constructed by 1936.
It was established as Ochanomizu University in 1949 and became a national university corporation under Japan's National University Corporation Law in 2004. Its faculties of graduate schools with Home Economics (master's program), Humanities and Science (doctoral program), started respectively in 1963 and 1976, and they were reorganized into the Graduate School of Humanities and Science starting in 1997 with master's research courses in humanities, science, and home economics.
