The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has summarized the enrollment capacity of national universities in 2019.According to the report, the enrollment capacity of undergraduate students was 9, which was 5,635 less than the previous year.Although the capacity has increased by 15 in the Faculty of Agriculture and Fisheries and 100 in medicine and health, it has decreased by 10 in the humanities, 80 in science and engineering, and 30 in education.
The new faculties will be the Faculty of Agriculture, Fukushima University and the Faculty of International Japanese Studies, Tokyo Foreign Language University.The Fukushima University Agricultural Group will have a food and agriculture department with a maximum enrollment capacity of 100 people.The Faculty of International Japanese Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies has an international Japanese department with a capacity of 75 students.
In the reorganization of the faculty, the Faculty of Engineering of Muroran Institute of Technology will become the Faculty of Science and Engineering.Along with this, four departments such as architectural and social infrastructure will be reorganized into two departments, creative engineering and system physics and chemistry.The enrollment capacity of 4 undergraduates remains unchanged.
In the reorganization of departments, the four departments of mechanical system engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, applied chemistry, and information engineering will be reorganized into the basic engineering department at the Faculty of Engineering, Utsunomiya University, and the applied biological science, biocirculation science, and life function at the Faculty of Agriculture, Saga University. It will be implemented in 4 faculties of 3 universities, including 6 departments of science becoming bioresource science departments, and a total of 8 departments will be reborn as 44 departments.
The enrollment capacity of the graduate school is 22, a decrease of 5 from the previous year.The breakdown is 9,178, a decrease of 620 from the previous year in the master's program, 4 in the professional course, and 1,720 in the doctoral program, a decrease of 640.Eleven graduate schools, including the Graduate School of Data Science at Shiga University and the Graduate School of Joint Veterinary Medicine at Tottori University, are scheduled to establish or reorganize their graduate schools.
