Kaisei Women's Academy held a board meeting and decided that Kobe Kaisei Women's University, which is headquartered in Nada Ward, Kobe City, will stop recruiting students from the 2024 academic year onwards.The school will close in March 2027 when all current students will graduate. It is said that it has become difficult to secure the number of students due to the decrease in the 3-year-old population and the tendency of female students to co-educate.
According to Kobe Kaisei Women's Gakuin University, it is a Roman Catholic women's university, and the management body is a women's religious organization "Missionary Francis of Mary" headquartered in Italy. It was established in 1955 based on Kaisei Women's Junior College, which opened in 1965.Initially, the Faculty of Letters had a Department of English Literature and a Department of French Literature, but from 2014, the Faculty of Contemporary Human Studies moved to a one-faculty, two-department system: the Department of English Tourism and the Department of Psychology and Childhood.Capacity is 1 people.
Since its opening, the university has cultivated women with a global perspective and the ability to serve society. It remained at 18 with a rate of 2022%.Kaisei Joshi Gakuin, which also operates kindergartens and elementary, junior high and high schools, said it would not be affected by the suspension of university recruitment.
Women's universities have been unable to attract new students due to the declining population of 18-year-olds and the preference for co-education among female students.Kobe Shinwa Women's University in Kita Ward, Kobe City, was reborn as a coeducational Kobe Shinwa University this spring, and Keisen Jogakuen University in Tama City, Tokyo, has announced that it will stop recruiting students after the 2024 academic year.
