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For generations, Gakushuin University has striven to make the world a better place, through good works that bring meaningful change to society. Those works stem from a commitment to asking essential questions, unswayed by fleeting trends, and from sincere dialogue in small groups. With Gakushuin Scope in hand, join us on a deep exploration of this campus, where knowledge that will move the future is born.
Manabi no Mori,
Where History and Progress Resonate Together
Manabi no Mori(Forest of Academics) harmoniously blends state-of-the-art facilities with stately historic buildings. Here students and faculty gather to share views and ideas, creating new insights.
A Campus Resounding with History and Tradition
Yoshishige Abe,the first president of Gakushuin University, built the University’s foundations, defining its character as “cultivating international knowledge, mastering foreign languages, understanding the living reality of the world and Japan, and furthermore, fusing East and West in Japan's great ideal as a cultural nation.” This vision, handed down through the generations, is now reflected in education at Gakushuin University as one of its guiding principles. Numerous cultural properties, all in active use, form a campus of living, breathing tradition both tangible and intangible.
Major Steps Toward the Next Generation
Gakushuin University has evolved with the changing times since its establishment as a university in 1949. Underpinned by the traditions it has built over the decades, the University will continue to pursue “innovation with a heart.” But in a world and society that are changing dramatically, how will the University achieve the ideals it declared at its foundation? To guide this effort, Gakushuin University Grand Design 2039 was launched in FY2022. In addition, in April 2026 Gakushuin Women’s College was integrated into Gakushuin University as the University’s sixth faculty, the Faculty of Intercultural Studies. By welcoming new members to the University community, the University will set knowledge in motion more broadly and dynamically than ever before, while taking a further step toward deeper growth and development as an educational and research institution.
Academic Fields Encompassing Six Faculties, 20 Departments and Nine Graduate Schools
The University offers a broad range of academic fields, encompassing social sciences, humanities and natural sciences. In April 2026 the University added one Faculty and two Departments, further broadening and deepening the range of studies available.
Students Inspiring Each Other to Greatness
The curriculum encourages students to transcend the confines of their chosen academic domains and learn together through dialogue in small groups, bringing out the potential of each individual.
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Education in Small Groups Rewards Initiative
In each department, a diverse range of classes are taught by faculty members active on the front lines of their respective disciplines. With the earnest and conscientious guidance of their instructors, students acquire advanced knowledge and skills in pursuit of mastery of specialized fields. Classes are taught in small groups, with some 70% of classes having 30 or fewer participants. Students learn in close proximity to their instructors, in a nurturing environment where it is easy to ask for advice, so they can explore each topic in great detail. Learning in small groups also fosters in students an attitude of independent, proactive class participation.
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Cultivating People with Specialized Expertise and Interdisciplinary Insights
In addition to specialist courses, Gakushuin University offers classes that transcend the barriers between faculties and departments to foster broader understanding, as well as classes that lay the foundation for studies within each faculty. Through an education that organically links specialist study with study across disciplinary boundaries, Gakushuin University develops “type-T” individuals: scholars who combine robust specialized expertise with a flexible interdisciplinary mindset.
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Sub-major Programs That Build Your Strengths According to Your Interests
Sub-major programs provide a way for students to complement their major studies by pursuing specified themes according to their interests. The University offers three sub-major programs: Data Science, the Japanese Language Instructors Program, and Gender Studies. Students can apply these sub-major programs to a wide variety of objectives, for example to delve deeper into the content of their major programs from a fresh perspective or to obtain qualifications useful in shaping their careers.
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Data Science for the Age of AI
The Data Science in Sub-major Program consists of three course groups: the Information Literacy Course Group, the Information Education Course Group and the Data Science Specialist Course Group. These course groups offer a wealth of lectures which students can freely combine to create their own curricula based on each individual’s unique background and career aspirations. Data science and AI are disciplines of great value in a wide variety of business arenas. By mastering one of these fields as a second area of specialization, students can aim for fruitful careers in a broad spectrum of industries.
New and Promising Research is Emerging Every Day.
Among private universities,
consecutive years
Mejiro’s Impact
on Society
These activities yield solutions to social issues and create new value.
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Returning Knowledge
Gakushuin University is proud to fulfill its mission of serving as a source of knowledge that is open to society. To provide the local community with opportunities for learning, the University offers courses through Toshima Community University, a public lecture program, as well as Japanese language classes for foreign residents. The University also returns the fruits of its academic work to society through the Kasumi Kaikan Memorial Gakushuin Museum.
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Working with the Community
In a partnership with Toshima City, Gakushuin University students connect with the local community through extracurricular activities and other initiatives. Led by Students Embracing Multiculture (SEM), a student volunteer group, students plan events to promote cross-cultural understanding and run Toshima Regional Future Workshop, among a variety of other activities.
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High School–University Partnerships
One way in which Gakushuin University applies its knowledge to build a better future is through educational partnerships. Based on agreements between the University and high schools on the use of University R&D resources and personnel, Gakushuin University conducts seminars, information exchanges and other events, focusing on themes of current interest.
Unchanging Conviction, Diligent Study,
and Innovation with a Heart
At Gakushuin University, students and faculty have always discussed topics frankly and on an equal footing,
in a carefree spirit of curiosity about topics of shared interest.
This cherished tradition continues to this day, nurturing the seeds of innovation at Manabi no Mori.
When knowledge cultivated here makes the leap from campus to the wider world, it has the power to move the future.
