Figure 2: Number of Schools and Students by Founding Type (1888) 59 Figure 2 shows numbers for higher learning institutions and stu-dents in 1888, the year after the Philosophy Academy was estab-lished. Imperial University was the only university, along with nine state-run vocational colleges. In comparison there were as many as thirty-four private schools. Private schools were home to more than seventy-seven percent of the students, clearly showing how large their share in higher education had become. When we divide up these private schools according to educa-tion type, they are split between schools teaching practical disci-plines and schools centered on the religions of Christianity, Bud-dhism, and Shinto. The former can be further divided into: (1) social sciences, such as law and economics; (2) humanities, fo-cused on the studies of languages such as English; and, (3) natural sciences, such as medicine and physics. As we can see here, there were no schools specializing in the field of philosophy, which meant the Philosophy Academy was very unique. Source: Ministry of Education, Hundredth Anniversary of the School System Act (Jp. Data Ed.), 1972.
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