Nagoya City University

The main campus (Kawasumi) is located in Mizuho-ku, Nagoya City.

Other three campuses (Yamanohata, Tanabe-dori and Kita Chikusa) are also located in the city.

NCU has added divisions and graduate schools as follows: Below are the histories of two preceding colleges of NCU: NCWMC was founded in 1943, during World War II, to meet the growing need of doctors (the college's original name in Japanese was Nagoya shiritsu joshi kōtō igaku senmon gakkō (名古屋市立女子高等医学専門学校), which was renamed Nagoya shiritsu joshi igaku senmon gakkō (名古屋市立女子医学専門学校) in 1944.).

In 1947, after the war, the college became a university (daigaku) under Japan's older education system.

The old campus of NPC is Takinomizu Park today (located in Midori-ku, Nagoya).