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Waseda University (早稲田大学), abbreviated as Waseda (早稲田) or Sōdai (早大), is a private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the Tōkyō Professional School by the former Prime Minister of Japan, Ōkuma Shigenobu, the school was renamed Waseda University in 1902 and officially granted university status in 1920.Waseda is organized into thirty-six departments: thirteen undergraduate schools and twenty-three graduate schools. As of 2023, there are 38,776 undergraduate students and 8,490 graduate students. In addition to a central campus in Shinjuku (Waseda Campus and Nishiwaseda Campus), the university operates campuses in Chūō, Nishitōkyō, Tokorozawa, Honjō, and Kitakyūshū. Waseda also operates 21 research institutes at its main Shinjuku campus.Its alumni include eight prime ministers of Japan, three prime ministers of Korea, a number of important figures of Japanese literature, including Haruki Murakami, and many CEOs, including Japan's richest person Tadashi Yanai, the CEO of UNIQLO, Nobuyuki Idei, the former CEO of Sony, and Shin Kyuk-ho, founder of Lotte Group.