However, the document that was submitted to Kyoto Prefecture as an 'application for school building rental' said, 'In the future, we plan to add two more departments--the Literature Department and the Medical Department--in order to take up one of the biggest issues of education in this country, which is to train junior high school teachers and doctors,' which implies that "Kyoto Hosei Gakko" was regarded as tentative name.
しかし開講直後に京都府に提出した「校舎敷地貸与願書」では、「将来は法政だけではなく文学、医学の二科を増設し、中学教員および医師を養成して、わが国教育の一大欠点を補充する一機関にしたい」と表明していることから、京都法政学校の校名は設立当時の一時的なものと考えられていたことが窺える。