The school's predecessor was founded in 1932 and chartered as a university in 1949.

[1] The university has added to Gifu's sister city exchanges by becoming a sister university or setting up an academic exchange program with three of Gifu's sister cities: Hangzhou (China), Cincinnati (United States) and Florence (Italy).

Since then, it has set up exchange programs with the pharmacy programs at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio and the University of Florence, which were started in 1991 and 1993, respectively.

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