Osaka Prefecture University, also abbreviated to Fudai, is one of the largest public universities in Japan. The main campus is among big Kofun tombs in Sakai, Osaka.HistoryOPU was established in 2005 in its current form by integrating three prefectural universities: University of Osaka Prefecture, Osaka Women's University and Osaka Prefecture College of Nursing.University of Osaka PrefectureUOP was originally established in 1949 as Naniwa University by mingling several national and public technical colleges. Among them was Osaka National College of Engineering. Since then the faculties in the field of engineering have been very competitive. In 1955 the university was renamed University of Osaka Prefecture (Japanese name for the university has not been changed since 1955).The history of the precedent colleges of Naniwa University (NU) is as follows:In 1883, the prefectural government founded the Veterinary Training Institute attached to Osaka Prefectural Medical School. In 1888, the institute was moved to Osaka Prefectural School of Agriculture in Sakai, which had two courses of agriculture and veterinary science. In 1942, during World War II, the course for Veterinary Medicine was reorganized into Osaka Higher School of Veterinary Medicine, which was renamed Osaka College of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Husbandry in 1945. This prefectural college, together with Osaka Agricultural College, constituted NU Faculty of Agriculture (now OPU Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences/School of Life and Environmental Sciences).The main origin was founded as Osaka National Higher School of Engineering in 1939, which was renamed Osaka National College of Engineering in 1944. Its site is now the main (Nakamozu) campus of OPU. The college was merged with four prefectural technical colleges to constitute NU Faculty of Engineering (now OPU Graduate School of Engineering/School of Engineering). In 1950, the two of the former prefectural colleges constituted Junior Technical College Division.