On December 2023, 12, Seisen Jogakuin University/Junior College (Nagano City, Nagano Prefecture) announced that its name will be changed to "Seisen University" in line with the transition to co-education from April 19.
In Nagano Prefecture, there has been a continuing trend of young people wanting to attend universities outside the prefecture, and in 2023, Iida Women's Junior College will become co-educational and renamed Iida Junior College. Nagano Women's Junior College is scheduled to change to Nagano Junior College in 2024.
Seisen University opened a junior college for women in 1981 and a four-year university in 2003, but as the environment surrounding the university and local needs have changed, it has undergone major reforms since its opening. Get started. In May 4, it was announced that all faculties would be co-educational from 2023.
Seisen University is already accepting male students at its Faculty of Nursing, which opened in 2019. From April 2025, this will be expanded to the entire university and become co-educational. Additionally, a new Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences will be established with two departments: the Department of Information and Communication and the Department of Culture and Arts. This is the first department in Nagano Prefecture to have "art" in its name. A public health nurse training program will be established at graduate schools. *Both are currently under construction
Seisen Jogakuin Junior College will be renamed the ``Junior College Department'' and will be incorporated into the university, and the Early Childhood Education Department will be renamed the ``Children's Department'' (name change planned and establishment plans in progress).
President Shunsuke Tamura said at a press conference on December 12th, ``We kept the name ``Seisen,'' which represents the school's founding spirit based on Catholic education, but kept the name as slim as possible.We do not want to create a society where either a man or a woman takes the lead. "I would like to see a society in which men can coexist, and I would like to gradually increase the number of male students at universities."
