Global education and study abroad
overview
It had three requirements: wisdom, courage, and compassion.
Nurturing creative global citizens
It has a network of 261 universities (as of July 10, 2024) in 69 countries and regions around the world. The international students it accepts are also from many different countries, and there is active international exchange on campus on a daily basis. In 2014, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's "Top Global University Creation Support Program" was selected as a program by the government to support universities that collaborate with overseas universities and engage in world-class research with the aim of increasing their international competitiveness. Soka University's "Construction of a Global Center for Human Education - Education Program for Creative Global Citizens Leading Peace and Sustainable Prosperity" was selected as a program. We will cultivate creative global citizens by carrying out university reforms with the keywords of ability to lead a global society and diversity.
Many students who have been accepted to major companies take the programs for studying undergraduate classes in English and the study abroad programs. The World Language Center, which is responsible for all foreign language classes, offers language self-study facilities and extracurricular programs. The Global Citizenship Program (GCP), a cross-departmental program aimed at cultivating global citizens, is for students who have a strong desire to play an active role in the international community in the future. Non-repayable scholarships are provided for overseas training, so all students can participate.
Message President
Nurturing "creative global citizens" who take on bold challenges around the world
Since its founding in 1971, Soka University has striven to develop "creative individuals" who create value and contribute to society, based on Founding Spirit. It has also been committed to "human education" that develops the "intellect" of each student and brings out their "human potential." As a result of the various initiatives and results that have been undertaken, the university was selected for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's "Global Human Resource Development Promotion Project" in 2012, and then for the same ministry's "Top Global University Creation Support" in 2014. We are extremely proud to have been selected for these projects, in light of Soka University's efforts and achievements, but at the same time we feel a greater sense of responsibility.
As the world's people move beyond national borders and become more closely connected and complex in our global society, our university has set the concept of this project as "Establishing a global base for human education - an educational program for 'global citizenship' that leads peace and sustainable prosperity." This is an initiative to develop education that fosters "creative global citizens" who can build consensus among people with diverse ideas and initiate movements to solve problems, and to build a base that can become a hub for such "global citizenship education."
As the slogan of this project is "Get Global, Be Bold," our university will cultivate "creative global citizens" who will boldly take on challenges in Japan and around the world.
President Soka University
Masashi Suzuki Suzuki
Vision for the future
Aiming to become a global center for human education
In the midst of globalization, it is important to find and practice creative solutions to the increasingly serious social issues that arise, based on the principle of coexistence, which is to "not build one's own happiness on the misfortune of others." For this reason, we aim to develop "creative global citizens" who recognize that the place they live in is an "open space" that is made up of complex connections with various societies with different cultural backgrounds, and who have the will and ability to lead the sustainable development of society through active solidarity with others, with "diversity" as a key factor.
2023: Building a global center for human education
Cultivating "global citizens" who will lead the way in peace and sustainable prosperity
Cultivating "creative global citizens"
Using basic academic ability as a foundation, we aim to develop students' "intellectual abilities" - the ability to analyze, integrate and create - as well as their "human abilities" - the ability to practically maintain their beliefs and cooperate with others; to develop individuals who can consider global issues as their own, understand differences in race, religion and culture, and work in solidarity with others from a borderless perspective.
Aiming for a campus filled with diversity
Faculty, staff, and students of different races, languages, cultures, and histories gather on campus from all over the world to study Soka University's "human education," and improve themselves through hard work. This is the very image of world peace. Interacting with people from different backgrounds is a great inspiration, and it cultivates human resources who aspire to coexistence with people of different cultures.
Sending out the power of "peace" to the world
Based on the network of research institutes and universities around the world with which our university has concluded exchange agreements, we will build a global base that provides high-level research activities and educational programs in the fields of "peace," "environment," "development," and "human rights" through inviting world-class researchers, conducting joint research, hosting international conferences, etc. Furthermore, we will open a graduate school, the "Graduate School of International Peace Studies," to foster "creative global citizens."