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- Established as Takamatsu Higher Commercial School in December, 1923.
- Student enrollment began in April, 1924.
- Higher Specialized Courses started in 1928.
- Renamed Takamatsu Specialzed School of Economics in 1944.
- Integrated to Kagawa University in 1949 as the Faculty of Economics. The Faculty had a single department:
the Department of Economics. The Institute of Economic Research was established in the same year. - A second department, the Department of Business Administration, was added in 1965.
- A third department, the Department of Information Science was added in 1971.
- A law course, later became the Faculty of Law, was introduced in the Department of Economics in 1976.
- The Graduate School of Economics (master's course) was established in 1979.
- A fourth department, the Department of Regional and Social Systems, was established in 1995.
- The four departments were reorganized into three departments: Economics, Business Administration and Regional and Social Systems in 1998.
- A second master's course on Enterprise and Business, later became the Business School of Regional Management, was introduced to the Graduate School of Economics in 2000.
- The Graduate School of Economics was reorganized to have a single Master's Course in Economics in 2004.
- The Faculty was reorganized to have a single Department of Economics with five areas of specialization:
Economic Theory and Policy Analysis, Accounting and Finance, Business Administration and Innovation, Tourism and Regional Development, and Global Social Economy in 2018. - The Graduate School of Science for Creative Emergence (master's course) was established in 2022.
The Graduate School of Economics, Education, Law and Engineering were integrated to it. - 100th Anniversary in 2023.
- In 2024, The Graduate School of Science for Creative Emergence (doctoral course) was established.
