The fact that student payments such as tuition fees account for more than 50% of the income of private universities was found in the materials submitted to the expert meeting of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.It was submitted by Teiichi Kawata, a former president of Kansai University and the chairman of the Japan Private School Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation, and further efforts are needed to obtain donations for financial improvement.
同資料によると、全国544の大学法人、112の短期大学法人の2014年度決算を見ると、全大学法人の収入合計6兆1,077億円の51.4％に当たる3兆1,373億円、短大法人の収入合計1,617億円の59.7％に当たる1,010億円を学生納付金が占めた。
Donations amounted to 3.1 billion yen, 1,876% for university corporations, and 3.4 billion yen, 58% for junior college corporations.Asset management income is only 2.4% at 1,454 billion yen for university corporations and 1.9 billion yen at 32% for junior college corporations.
The donations are collected at 85.6 billion yen at Keio University, 42.5 billion yen at Nihon University, and 35.6 billion yen at Waseda University, which are similar to those of leading national and public universities. There are only 39% of private universities.Compared to 96% of national universities having a donation information page, the delay in efforts is noticeable.
Private universities in the United States have been thinking about management centered on donations, asset management, and research funds for industry-government-academia collaboration.Private universities in Japan, on the other hand, rely on student payments and public subsidies.For this reason, the donation culture of the United States has not grown.
Publicly subsidized private school subsidies accounted for nearly 1980% of university income in the 30s, but due to financial difficulties in the country, it fell to 2014% for university corporations and 10.0% for junior college corporations in FY25.7."From now on, each private university should make more efforts to secure donations," said Kawada.
