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Meiji Daigaku is a private research university in Chiyoda, , Japan. Originally founded as () by three lawyers in 1881, it became a university in April 1920.

As of May 2023, Meiji has 32,261 undergraduate students and 2,635 postgraduate students. The university consists of 10 undergraduate, 12 graduate, and 4 professional graduate schools, and operates on four campuses around the Greater Tokyo Area: , Izumi, Ikuta, and Nakano. Meiji University is the country's most applied-to university, with applications to its undergraduate degrees amounting to approximately 100,000 annually. Meiji is a part of the Top Global University Project of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. As of 2021, 270 Meiji alumni have competed in the , garnering 40 medals: 14 gold, 13 silver, and 13 bronze.

Academics
Undergraduate schools
  • School of Law
    • Businesses Law Course
    • International Relations Law Course
    • Public Service Law Course
    • Law and Information Course
    • Pre-Law School Course
  • School of Commerce
    • Applied Economics Course
    • Marketing Course
    • Finance & Insurance Course
    • Global Business Course
    • Management Course
    • Accounting Course
    • Creative Business Course
  • School of Political Science and Economics
    • Department of Political Science
    • Department of Economics
    • Department of Regional Administration
  • School of Arts and Letters
    • Department of Literature
    • Department of History and Geography
    • Department of Social Psychology
  • School of Science and Technology
    • Department of Electrical Engineering
    • Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
    • Department of Mechanical Engineering
    • Department of Precision Engineering
    • Department of Architecture
    • Department of Industrial Chemistry
    • Department of Information Science
    • Department of Mathematics
    • Department of Physics
  • School of Agriculture
    • Department of Agriculture
    • Department of Agricultural Chemistry
    • Department of Life Sciences
    • Department of Food and Environmental Policy
  • School of Business Administration
    • Department of Business Administration
    • Department of Accounting
    • Department of Public Management
  • School of Information and Communication
  • School of Global Japanese Studies
    • Department of Global Japanese Studies
  • School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences

Graduate schools
  • Graduate School of Law
  • Graduate School of Commerce
  • Graduate School of Political Science and Economics
  • Graduate School of Business Administration
  • Graduate School of Arts and Letters
  • Graduate Schools of Informatics and Communication
  • Graduate School of Science and Technology
  • Graduate School of Agriculture
  • Graduate School of Advanced Mathematical Sciences
  • Graduate School of Humanities
  • Graduate School of Global Japanese Studies
  • Graduate School of Global Governance

Professional Graduate Schools
  • Graduate School of Governance Studies
  • Graduate School of Global Business
  • Graduate School of Professional Accountancy
  • Law School

Campus life 
belongs to the Tokyo Big6 Baseball League. Every year, [[rugby union]] and [[baseball]] matches ''Meisōsen'' () against Waseda University attract support among its students. It also has a successful judo team.
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In 2004, Meiji University reorganised existent three museum collections and opened Meiji University Museum. The university announced on February 26, 2009, that it would open a museum dedicated to and .David McNeill, " A Scholarly Home for Manga," Chronicle of Higher Education. ("To continue reading this premium article beyond, you must have a Chronicle account AND a subscription or an online pass.") It will include international research centers hosting Japanese and international scholars as well as a large quality of artifacts on the subject.

Academic rankings
Meiji University has achieved worldwide recognition in various international publications focusing on higher education.

General rankings
The university has been ranked 19th and 26th in 2009 and 2010 respectively in the ranking "Truly Strong Universities" by . The QS World University Rankings ranked the university 354th in Asia in 2025.

Research performance
The Nikkei Shimbun on 16 February 2004 surveyed about the research standards in based on Thomson Reuters, and questionnaires to heads of 93 leading Japanese Research Centers, and Meiji was placed 37th in this ranking.

Meiji has filed the 62nd highest number of patents in the nation as its research outcomes.

Graduate school rankings
Meiji Law School is considered one of the top Japanese law schools, as Meiji's number of successful candidates for Japanese bar examination has been 14th and 20th in 2009 and 2010 respectively. It is one of the strongest department in this university as the cumulative number of people qualified as lawyer and prosecutor has been historically sixth after WW2.

ranked Meiji as fourth in the rankings of "Excellent Business Schools nationally strong and/or with continental links" in Japan.

Alumni rankings
According to the 's 2010 rankings, graduates from Meiji University have the 35th best employment rate in 400 major companies

The university is also ranked sixth in Japan for the number of alumni holding the position of executive in the listed companies of Japan, and this number per student (probability of becoming an executive) is 25th.

Meiji graduates have been ranked fifth in Japan in the number of successful national CPA exam applicants. Its graduates have been also ranked ninth in Japan in the number of successful Architect Registration exam applicants.

Furthermore, the number of Members of Parliament who graduated Meiji is sixth in Japan.

Popularity and selectivity
The number of applicants per place was 24.9 (113,905/4,582) in the 2011 undergraduate admissions, this number of applicants (113,905) was largest in 2011. Its entrance difficulty is also very selective.E.g. published Hensachi (the indication showing the entrance difficulties by prep schools) rankings Japanese journalist ranks its entrance difficulty as A1 (2nd most selective/out of 10 scales) in Japan.

Meiji university is regarded as comparable with the Tokyo-area private universities Aoyama Gakuin, Rikkyo, Chuo, and Hosei, collectively called "MARCH".

Alumni
Meiji University's alumni have included: , 2 Japanese prime ministers, , 380 professional athletes, 115 company presidents, and .

Politics
World leaders
  • The 66th Japanese Prime Minister (1974–1976)
  • The 81st Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (1994–1996)

Other politicians

Others

Sister Universities
  • National Formosa University, Yunlin, Taiwan

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