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KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY

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http://global.kwansei.ac.jp/index.html

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Vision/Mission/Company Goals & Objectives

Kwansei Gakuin Mission Statement:
Kwansei Gakuin, as a learning community based on the principles of Christianity, inspires its members to seek their life missions, and cultivates them to be creative and capable world citizens who embody its motto ‘Mastery for Service’ by transforming society with compassion and integrity.

Kwansei Gakuin Vision 2009-2018:
Kwansei Gakuin has established a 10-year New Strategic Plan (2009-2018). This plan reconfirms the university’s mission and ‘Mastery for Service’ motto that all members of Kwansei Gakuin have held in common over its long history, and sets out clearly the ideals for our graduates, and the ideal for Kwansei Gakuin University.

These were brought together to form a vision of Kwansei Gakuin 10 years hence (2009-2018), together with the strategies required to realize this vision.

Kwansei Gakuin’s school motto, ‘Mastery for Service’
‘Mastery for Service’ reflects the ideal for all its members to master their abundant God-given gifts to serve their neighbors, society and the world.

KG’s ideals for its graduates:
To produce graduates with a global perspective, care for others, and a commitment to social transformation, who have both clear insight and a strong sense of ethics, enabling them to go out into the world confident in their ability to achieve their high ideals.

KG’s ideals for its university:
Kwansei Gakuin University aims to be a ‘learning community without fences’ based on the principles of Christianity, which, through education encompassing students’ total personality and creative cutting-edge research, will send out into the world truly global citizens who are both capable and caring.

KG’s six visions:

1. Guaranteeing KG graduates of the highest quality

2. Becoming a world center for research appropriate to Kwansei Gakuin

3. Strengthening our ties with the local community, business and global society

4. Creating an international multicultural campus

5. Pursuing the ideal of comprehensive and integrated education

6. Establishing a system to manage rapid change and evolution

 

Organization Description

Kwansei Gakuin is one of the most prestigious private schools in Japan. It dates back to 1889, when it was founded by the American missionary Reverend Walter Russell Lambuth, M.D. in Kobe.

Kwansei Gakuin is now a comprehensive and integrated educational institute with a university, college, junior college, senior high school, junior high school, elementary school and kindergarten. It has six campuses: Nishinomiya Uegahara, Nishinomiya Seiwa, Kobe Sanda, Osaka Umeda, Tokyo Marunouchi, and Takarazuka.

Kwansei Gakuin University (KGU) is an independent institution for higher education, offering Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees in over 35 different disciplines to a student body of about 24,000, including approximately 700 foreign students. The university maintains academic standards that rank among the highest of all Japanese universities and colleges.

 

Background/History

Kwansei Gakuin was founded in 1889 in Kobe, Japan, by Dr Walter Russell Lambuth (later Bishop), a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, USA. It was intended to be a small private institution with two departments, a theological school and a middle school. In 1910 the Canadian Methodist Church and the Japanese Methodist Church joined in the operation, and Kwansei Gakuin opened a strong college with literary and commercial courses in 1912.

In 1929 a growing Kwansei Gakuin moved to the rural farmland, which is the site of the present campus in Nishinomiya-Uegahara. Three years later, it acquired the status of a full degree-granting university and continued as one of 54 such institutions in Japan until the end of World War II. In 1948, the university embraced the new 6-3-3-4 school system  – 6 years in elementary school, 3 in junior high, 3 in senior high, and 4 in college – based upon the American educational framework.

Throughout its history, Kwansei Gakuin has had a strong international emphasis. A variety of programs aim to develop internationally-minded people who understand other cultures and countries of the world, being motivated to help others in the spirit of the school’s motto, ‘Mastery for Service’.

Kwansei Gakuin University is now an independent co-educational institution offering Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees in almost 40 different disciplines to around 20,000 students. There are 11 undergraduate and 13 graduate schools, as well as an attached Kindergarten, Elementary School, Junior and Senior High School, Seiwa College and Seiwa Junior College. The university consistently achieves the highest academic standards among Japanese private universities and colleges.

 

Location

Kwansei Gakuin has seven campuses: Nishinomiya Uegahara, Nishinomiya Seiwa, Kobe Sanda, Osaka Umeda, Tokyo Marunouchi, Takarazuka and Senri International Campus. The classes of Kwansei Gakuin University are mainly conducted at the Nishinomiya Uegahara, Nishinomiya Seiwa and Kobe Sanda campuses.

Nishinomiya Uegahara Campus
The Nishinomiya Uegahara Campus is located about halfway between Kobe and Osaka in the city of Nishinomiya. In 1929, Kwansei Gakuin moved to this campus, which is designed in a “Spanish-mission style” by William Merrell Vories (1880-1964), who was a missionary, architect, educator, and entrepreneur born in the United States, and who worked mainly in the Kansai area in Japan.

All of its buildings share the features of cream-colored concrete walls and red roofs. The Clock Tower stands at the center of one’s view when entering through the main gate and the landscaping helps to contribute to this campus’s reputation as one of the most beautiful in Japan.

This campus houses the Schools of Theology, Humanities, Sociology, Law and Politics, Economics, Business Administration, Human Welfare Studies, “Language, Communication, and Culture”, and the Law School, Institute of Business and Accounting (Business School, Accounting School), as well as most of the administrative offices of Kwansei Gakuin.

Nishinomiya Seiwa Campus
This campus houses the Schools of Education, the Junior College, and Kindergarten. This campus is 10 minutes from the Nishinomiya Uegahara Campus on foot, and filled with children’s glee and warm-hearted atmosphere.

Kobe Sanda Campus
This eco-friendly campus, KSC houses the School of Policy Studies, and School of Science and Technology. KSC is fully equipped with excellent facilities for advanced research activities.

The same architectural style as its Nishinomiya-Uegahara predecessor is shared. This campus is located in the city of Sanda, about an hour to 70 minutes from Nishinomiya by shuttle bus.

Osaka Umeda Campus
The Osaka Umeda Campus is in the Applause Tower, which is a short walk from the central stations of Osaka city, such as Hankyu Umeda Station, Osaka City Subway Umeda Station, and JR Osaka Station. Besides holding numerous graduate school classes for working people, the campus offers support for lifelong learning and student job placement. It is also a base for industry–academia linking and PR activities.

Tokyo Marunouchi Campus
The Tokyo Marunouchi Campus is on the 10th floor of the Sapia Tower, next to Tokyo Station.

The Tokyo Marunouchi Campus is a base for information gathering and provision, the furthering of lifelong learning, and job placement support in the Tokyo metropolitan area.

Of special note is the fact that it is the base of the Tokyo Alumni Association. Alumni give courses like the Crescent Moon Class and the New Moon Class for KGU students. Also popular is the Marunouchi course – lectures by prominent figures working on the front lines of the business world. The Tokyo Marunouchi Campus staff helps KGU students find work in Tokyo. And KGU graduates living in Tokyo are also there to support current students.

Takarazuka Campus
This campus houses the Elementary School. The site of this campus was the former Takarazuka Family Land amusement park. Like an amusement park, the Elementary School offers dreams, surprises and joy to children. There is the grand theater of Takarazuka Revue, Osamu the Tezuka Manga Museum, and Takarazuka Garden Place.

Senri International Campus
The Senri International Campus is home to Osaka International School (OIS) and Senri International School, Middle and High Schools (SIS). Osaka International School and Senri International School were founded to bring together, for the benefit of returnee, national, and international residents of the Kansai region, the best of Japanese and non-Japanese educational ideas, systems and techniques into two schools which share a building, programs, curricula, philosophies, experiences, and dreams.

Students on the Senri International Campus comprise roughly one-third non-Japanese, one-third returnee and one-third domestic students. The faculty and staff draw on each others’ skills and experiences to provide educational experiences for these students that are rich in content and diversity, preparing them for the challenges and opportunities of the ever more interconnected world of the 21st century.

 

Highlights

Kwansei Gakuin University selected as a Top Global University by MEXT in 2014.

For its “Establishing the ‘Global Academic Port’ – an international hub for academic exchange” initiative, Kwansei Gakuin University was selected as one of the 24 globalized universities expected to play a leading role in globalizing Japanese society, receiving a Type-B grant from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) under the 2014 Top Global University Project.