The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has selected 2017 universities, junior colleges, and technical colleges such as Sapporo University and Tokushima Bunri University as the target schools for the 448 Private University Reform Comprehensive Support Project. Nine projects were adopted, including the Consortium Kyoto, the Hyogo Industry-Government-Academia Collaboration Council in Hyogo Prefecture, and the Tottori Platform 5 + α in Tottori Prefecture.
According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, a new "platform formation" type that applies at multiple schools will be established from 2017, and the conventional "qualitative conversion of education", "regional development", "cooperation with industry and other universities", " Together with "Globalization", we proceeded with the selection of a total of 5 types.
From 665 applications for "quality conversion of education" to 342 schools such as Koriyama Women's University and Kanazawa National College of Technology, and from 399 schools for "regional development" to 166 schools such as Japan Red Cross Toyoda Nursing University and Kagoshima Immaculate Women's Junior College, " In "Collaboration with Industry and Other Universities", 249 schools such as Sakushin Gakuin University and Tama University were selected from 77 schools, and in "Globalization", 224 schools such as Pan Pacific University and Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University were selected from 80 schools.
In "Platform formation", we selected 8 to 3 applications for the urban type and 13 to 6 applications for the local type.The urban type was selected from the Toyota City Higher Education Revitalization Promotion Platform in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, which is organized by four schools including Chukyo University and Aichi Institute of Technology, and the 4-university consortium Kyoto and Kobe, including Kyoto University and Doshisha University. Hyogo Industry-Government-Academia Collaboration Council of 49 universities including universities and Kansai Gakuin University.The regional type is Hokkaido Hakodate City Campus Consortium Hakodate, which consists of 40 schools including Hokkaido Kyoiku University and Future University Hakodate.
The purpose of the comprehensive support project for reform of private universities is to support universities that are actively engaged in university reform, and 2017 billion yen has been posted in FY176.
