Kwansei Gakuin University

Kwansei Gakuin University,colloquially known as Kangaku, is a private Christian university in Japan.Founded in 1889, KGU offers Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees toaround 25,000 students in almost 40 different disciplines across 11undergraduate and 14 graduate programs, and the university welcomes around 800international students every year. KGU’s main Nishinomiya campus, located inthe heart of the Kansai region, sits in close proximity to the cities of Kobe,Osaka and Kyoto, and the university’s architecture, inspired by the SpanishMission style, won a comprehensive design award from the ArchitecturalInstitute of Japan in 2017.

KGU's avowed mission, “to helpstudents master their God-given gifts in order to serve their neighbors,society and the world,” is reflected in the university’s motto of Mastery forService. As part of that endeavor, in 2010, KGU established the School ofInternational Studies, which offers undergraduate degree programs conductedentirely in English, in order to attract students from all over the world. KGUhas also made great strides toward becoming a more globally-minded institutionthrough various initiatives, such as the UN and Foreign Affairs Studiesgraduate minor, a practical program launched in 2017 that trains professionalsfor future employment at UN agencies and other foreign organizations. Thanks tothese efforts, KGU was selected for inclusion in the Top Global UniversityProject, a government initiative which aims to improve the internationalcompetitiveness of Japanese universities.