The 2023 entrance exam has just ended, but in June, the application guidelines for the 6 entrance exam will be released on the university website, and the latest deviation score will be released on the prep school website, and the 2024 entrance exam will begin. From the end of 2024, there was a series of news that made me worried about the future at women's colleges. What are the trends in women's colleges in 2022 and 2024? We will report mainly on women's universities in Tokyo and 2025 prefectures.
Women's Universities in 1 Tokyo and 3 Prefectures Dramatic changes in 2024 and 2025
In the Tokyo metropolitan area, Keisen Jogakuen University and in the Kansai area, Kobe Kaisei Women's College have announced that they will stop recruiting. In particular, we are concerned about women's universities in poor locations, small scale, and little movement such as campus relocation or reorganization. I've been hearing a lot of voices.
The reasons for the deterioration of recruitment at women's universities include the decrease in the number of applicants and the bias of the established faculty system.It goes without saying that women's colleges simply recruit half as many as co-educational colleges.In addition, among the established faculties, there is a large percentage of quotas for literature and home economics, where the number of applicants is not increasing, and there are fewer quotas for social sciences, science and technology, which are growing.
It can be improved to some extent by changing to coeducation and reorganizing faculties, but it is not so easy because there is also the problem of ranking judged by deviation scores.As a university, it's not that we don't understand the issues, and it's not that we don't think about improvement measures.However, no steps have been taken toward reform.I'm not moving.Maybe that's the factor.
First of all, we will only take measures to recruit superficially, and increase the ratio of the first half of the entrance examination in order to secure new students.Since most universities are increasing the ratio of first-half entrance exams, in the end it becomes a battle between publicity and brand power.And since the number of students who were admitted to the school after the first half of the entrance examination increased, there were no applicants left for the general selection, and the actual ratio decreased.It further degrades the brand.
This is not only the case with women's colleges, but it is particularly noticeable at women's colleges.However, not all women's colleges are cohesive. There are a total of 1 private women's universities in Tokyo and 3 prefectures, of which 30 have secured their enrollment quota. (See table below)
Even in the above-mentioned universities where they are gathered, the movement is quite active.There are also reorganizations, curriculum reforms, and the introduction of new entrance exams.Waiting and waiting won't improve your recruitment.The following is a summary of the 3 and 2024 reorganizations and entrance examination changes of major women's universities in Tokyo and 2025 prefectures, including national universities.
●Ochanomizu University
2024 Co-Creative Engineering Faculty established
● Tokyo Women's Christian University
Academic Year 2024 Common Curriculum Reform
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Liberal Arts newly established
2025 University-wide department restructuring
● Japan Women's University
2024 Establishment of Faculty of Architectural Design
2025 Faculty of Gastronomy Established
2025 entrance examination change [general selection (university entrance common test type (5 subjects in the first semester)) new]
● Otsuma Women's University
2024 entrance examination change
●University of the Sacred Heart
2025 entrance examination change [New introduction of common test]
● Gakushuin Women's College
2025 entrance examination change [general A method mathematics selection possible, etc.]
● Ferris University
2024 entrance examination change (comprehensive selection II new, general selection entrance examination schedule change)
2025 University-wide Reform
New information for 2024 is under approval application or notification
New information for 2025 is under planning
All information as of May 2023, 5
What is the 2024 entrance examination schedule?
Gakushuin Women's University and Seisen Women's University brought forward the entrance examination schedule for the 1 entrance examination for women's universities in Tokyo and three prefectures, or set the entrance examination schedule for the end of January. .
The entrance exam dates for large co-educational universities are concentrated after February 2st, so if you want to avoid conflicting entrance exam dates, you will have no choice but to choose the end of January. If you choose to take the entrance exam at the end of January, there will be people who will take the entrance exam as a slip prevention for the first choice university, so there is also the advantage that it will be easier to acquire applicants.
Even in such a situation, some women's universities have secured admission quotas by continuing to hold entrance exams from February 2023 onwards for the 2 academic year.Seven universities: Otsuma Women's University, Sacred Heart Women's University, Joshibi University of Art and Design, Japan Women's University, Jissen Women's University, Tokyo Women's Christian University, and Tsuda College.However, it is expected that the recruiting environment will become even more severe in the future, and as in the Kansai region, general selection will be held at different times, such as late January and early February, and early and mid-February. may become commonplace. I think that many universities will officially announce the entrance examination schedule for 1 from June.Attention will be paid to what kind of entrance examination it will be.
Women's colleges are undergoing drastic changes nationwide
In Hokkaido, Hokkaido Musashi Women's University is scheduled to open in 2024.We will compete in one faculty of the Faculty of Business Administration.In Nagoya, Sugiyama Jogakuen University announced its reorganization in 2024.It is a major reorganization of five faculties, excluding the Faculty of Human Life Sciences and the Faculty of Nursing.Ohka Gakuen University will establish a new Faculty of International Studies in 2024 as it becomes coeducational.In Kansai, Kyoto Women's University will reorganize the Faculty of Human Development and Education in 2024 and establish the Faculty of Psychology and Symbiosis.Mukogawa Women's University established the Department of History and Culture in the Faculty of Letters in 2024.In 2024, Kobe College will newly establish the Department of Psychology and the Department of International Studies.Yasuda Women's University in Hiroshima Prefecture has announced that it will establish a science and engineering department for the first time in a women's university from 2025. Women's universities are becoming more active not only in Tokyo and the three prefectures, but nationwide.
The details of the entrance examination for April 2023 and the details of the entrance examination for 4 will be announced in the future.Along with these developments, we would like to share the latest information on women's universities.
