According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the enrollment capacity of national universities in 2017 will decrease by 5 due to the establishment of 15 faculties, 288 departments, and the abolition of courses.The total number of undergraduate students at the university will be 9.
According to the Ministry of Education, the new faculties will be the Faculty of Marine Resources and Environment of Tokyokaiyo University, the Faculty of Urban Sciences of Yokohama National University, the Faculty of Creation of Niigata University, the Faculty of Data Sciences of Shiga University, and the Faculty of Human Sciences of Shimane University. A total of 5 students will be increased by revising the enrollment capacity of 598 students in 51 faculties and 699 departments.
Of these, the Faculty of Data Science at Shiga University is Japan's first faculty that specializes in statistics and big data, and aims to develop human resources who can analyze big data.We aim to be a research center in western Japan for the Institute of Statistical Mathematics in eastern Japan.
On the other hand, the departments will be abolished: Information Culture Course, Human Environment Education Course, Faculty of Education, Ibaraki University, Marine Environment Department, Faculty of Marine Life Sciences, Tokyo Marine University, Information Management Department, Faculty of Economics, Shiga University, Osaka University of Education. In 9 schools and 15 departments and courses, including the special support education teacher training course of the Faculty of Education, the total number of students has been reduced by 987, including the reorganization of the faculties and departments.
The fields where the capacity will increase are 137 in agriculture and water, 2 in medicine and dentistry, and 232 in others.On the contrary, the fields of decrease are 402 in humanities and sociology, 184 in science and engineering, 70 in medicine / health, and 3 in education.
On the other hand, the number of students in the graduate school is 2016, an increase of 153 from the master's program, 4, an increase of 2,094 in the professional degree program, and 91 in the doctoral program, a decrease of 3,144.
