Takikawa Gakuen, the educational corporation that runs Nagoya Bunri University, has announced that it will continue to recruit students for its junior college in 2026, but will stop recruiting from 2027. The junior college (located in Nishi-ku, Nagoya) will set up a dietitian major (80 students) and a confectionery major (30 students) in the Department of Food and Nutrition.
The university (Inazawa City, Aichi Prefecture) also announced that it plans to reorganize its faculties and departments by the 2028 academic year. The university currently has two faculties and three departments: the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences (Department of Health and Nutrition, Department of Food Business) (150 students enrolled) and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (120 students enrolled). Details of the reorganization have not yet been announced.
Takikawa Gakuen was established in 1941 as the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Foundation Food Science Research Institute, and opened the Nagoya Nutrition College (now the Nagoya Bunri Nutritionist College) in 1956. In April 1965, the Nagoya Nutrition Junior College (now the Nagoya Bunri University Junior College) opened, and in April 4, Nagoya Bunri University opened. In 1999, it will mark the 4th anniversary of the opening of the nutritionist training facility designated by the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare.
After the junior college division is completed, the two-year nutritionist training course will be taken over by our sister school, Nagoya Bunri Nutritionist College (Nishi-ku, Nagoya), which will continue to provide this service. The results of the education and research conducted to date will be used to enhance the training of registered dietitians, food business, and information media studies at Nagoya Bunri University, as well as to develop health informatics at the graduate school.
Nagoya Bunri University is expanding its current university-wide "Mathematics, Data Science, and AI Education" program to better meet the needs of a super-aging society, taking into account the need for generative AI and data science. It is also gradually revising and expanding the program with the aim of training practical and advanced registered dietitians, developing human resources in the food business field, and developing human resources in the information media field.
In April 2025, the university will open a Graduate School of Health Informatics (a two-year master's program specializing in health informatics) with the aim of pioneering a new field of "health informatics" that combines the results of education and research cultivated thus far in the fields of "health science" and "information science," and thereby achieving even more advanced education and research.
As a result, the university is planning to reorganize its faculties and departments by 2028. Note that this plan is currently in the planning stages and is subject to change.
