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Features
Regular Course
Five-year course
- Five years of consistent engineering education from 15 years old.
High quality of teaching
- Possibility of continuing further study in the two-year advanced course.
Practical training
- Curriculum emphasizing scientific experiments, workshop training and practical manufacturing skills.
- Small classes, allowing close attention to students. Detailed teaching and assistance by dedicated teachers.
- Student dormitory service.
Various opportunities to improve Japanese skills through life in the dormitory and extracurricular activities. - Inter-college competitions, such as the Robot Contest，Programming Contest, Design Contest and so on.
- International activities, such as teacher and student exchange (470 international students).
- Accreditation by JABEE as a qualified engineering education program.
Good employment circumstances
- A wide variety of career courses are available after graduation, from employment to advancing to higher level education.
- A very good reputation both in industry and in academia.
Advanced Course
Development of practical manufacturing skills
- PBL (Project-Based Learning) on practical engineering tasks.
- Developing a broad outlook on engineering by blending the specialties of regular course graduates who have studied in different fields.
- Fostering a sense for business.
Cooperation with local industry
- A long–term internship (over a month) and COOP (cooperative education)
- Retired engineers from industry give lectures to pass on manufacturing skills to the younger generation.
Accreditation by JABEE as a qualified engineering education program.
- Accredited programs of KOSEN (Colleges of Technology) correspond to the level of undergraduate engineering programs in a university.
- Internationally accepted through the Washington accord.
