Koshihara Gakuen Educational Corporation, which operates Nagoya Women's University, held a board of directors meeting and decided to make the university coeducational from 2025 and change its name to ``Nagoya Aoi University.'' The junior college division will stop recruiting students from 2025 onwards. This appears to be due to a serious shortage of enrollment due to young people leaving women's colleges and junior colleges, so it will restart as a co-educational four-year university.
According to Nagoya Women's University, its predecessor was Nagoya Women's School, which opened in 1915. It became Nagoya Women's University in 1964, and currently has approximately 1,650 students attending four faculties, including the Faculty of Home Economics and the Faculty of Letters. However, as of May 2,400, the capacity rate is less than 2023% of the capacity of 5 people. In the future, the decline in the 7-year-old population is expected to accelerate, and the school seems to have aimed for co-educational programs.
The new name ``Aoi'' comes from the fact that the school was founded in Aoi-cho, Higashi Ward, Nagoya City. Nagoya Women's University said, ``As we take a new step forward as a co-educational institution on the 110th anniversary of our founding, we have chosen to return to the origins of our founding.''
共学化に伴い大学名変更をした私立大学は、文京女子大学→文京学院大学（2002年）、武蔵野女子大学→武蔵野大学（2003年）、京都橘女子大学→京都橘大学（2005年）、東海女子大学→東海学院大学（2007年）、中京女子大学→至学館大学（2010年）、文化女子大学→文化学園大学（2011年）、東京純心女子大→東京純心大（2015年）、広島文教女子大→広島文教大（2019年）、東北女子大学→柴田学園大学（2021年）、親和女子大学→神戸親和女子大学（1994年）→神戸親和大学（2023年）、鹿児島純心女子大学→鹿児島純心大学（2023年）などがある。大学名から「女子」をとる、学園名などを付けるのは、今までもあるが、創立の地の町名にちなんで付けるのは、珍しい。
Nagoya Women's University Junior College was established in 1950 as Nagoya Jogakuin Junior College, and changed to its current name in 1964. There are two departments: the Department of Lifestyle Studies and the Department of Childcare, but the enrollment is approximately 610, less than half of the 300 students enrolled. The decision was made to close the history of the university as it became co-educational.
The trend of young people leaving junior colleges is serious, and according to a nationwide survey by the Japan Private School Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation, 2023% of private junior colleges will be under capacity in 92. As a result, a rush to suspend recruitment at junior colleges continues across the country.
reference:[Nagoya Women's University] Regarding university name change and co-educational system
Regarding suspension of student recruitment for Nagoya Women's University Junior College (from 7)
