University of the Air

The Open University of Japan is a distance learning university which has students all over Japan; it accepted its first students in 1985. Although founded by the national government initiative with a single-issue law and heavily subsidised by the government, it was established by The University of the Air Foundation as a "special academic incorporation" , the University classified as a private university in Japan. It had founded on the basis system of The Open University in the United Kingdom. The administration is based in Chiba City although it has offices and learning centers in each of... Japan's 47 prefectures. The University offers accredited undergraduate and graduate degrees. With nearly 90,000 students enrolled , 45,000 students graduated from the University. It is one the largest academic institutions in the nation, and qualifies as one of the world's mega universities. Since it was founded, over 780,000 students have taken courses from the institution. The English name of the university was changed on 1 October 2007.
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