Establishment of the Imperial Universities in the foreign parts had implications of suppressing nationalism there, but the numbers of departments and students were limited, professors and most students were Japanese and some national newspaper criticized racial discrimination.
外地での帝国大学設立は、外地での民族自決を抑え込む意味合いがあったものの、学部数や定員は限定され、また、教授陣は日本人、かつ、学生の多くも日本人であったため、民族差別を訴える民族系新聞もあった。