Osaka University of Economics (OUE) traces its history back to the

establishment of its predecessor, Naniwa Higher Commercial School,

in 1932. The high school was reorganized for various reasons, and in

1935, Dr. Iwao Kokusho, then a professor at Kyoto Imperial University,

and his colleagues invested their own funds to reopen the school as

Showa Higher Commercial School. In 1944, the school was converted

to Osaka Girls College of Economics concurrent with the mobilization of

male students during World War II. After the war, in 1946, the school

became a coeducational college and was renamed Osaka College of

Economics. It assumed its current name, Osaka University of Economics,

in 1949, and Dr. Iwao Kokusho was called upon again, this time to become its first president. Since then, OUE has operated as a private university in

the fields of economics and business administration. We opened the

Faculty of Information Management in 1997 (reorganized as the Faculty of Information Technology and Social Sciences in 2012), the Faculty of

Human Sciences in 2002, and the Faculty of International Co-creativity

and Innovation in 2024, bringing the total number of faculties to five, and we continue working to enhance all of our undergraduate faculties and

graduate schools.