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About Ochanomizu

01.04.2024 Update

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Ochanomizu University was founded in 1875 (8th year of the Meiji era) as Tokyo Women’s Normal School, the first national institution of higher education for women in Japan. Throughout our nearly 150-year history, from a time when it was difficult for women to receive higher education and play an active role in society, Ochanomizu University has paved the way as a forerunner in women’s education. We have been advancing a better society by recognizing and respecting the differences of diverse people with various backgrounds, such as gender, age, race, nationality, culture, and region. Starting as a normal school for educating future teachers, our graduates have been active not only as educators but also as outstanding researchers and leaders in various fields such as economy, industry, and the media, around the globe.

In this academic year, the Faculty of Transdisciplinary Engineering was established as the first newly-opened undergraduate program in 74 years. This Faculty aims to promote the transdisciplinary collaboration of engineering and humanities/social science, by leveraging the educational and research tradition of the three existing faculties, Letters and Education, Science, and Human Life and Environmental Sciences, as its foundation. It strives to foster women leaders with engineering background who can demonstrate their core competencies in jointly creating the future of our environment, society and culture. Intermediated by the Faculty of Transdisciplinary Engineering, it is expected to facilitate the process of translating research and educational outcomes of the three existing Faculties into practical applications for society more quickly and smoothly. Together with the new Faculty, we will respond to social needs through creating solutions and keep on our path to open up a bright future.

The COVID-19 pandemic reminded us once again of the importance of IT and digital technologies. While our daily lives were restricted by COVID-19, IT supported our daily communication in virtual environment and enabled universities to continue to function as educational institutions. Since Japan has fallen behind much of the world in terms of digitalization, however, it is urgent to tackle this pressing task. It is also required to solve a variety of challenges for not only Japan but also the world through developing and utilizing IT and AI technologies to further extent. By teaching both knowledge of IT and the ability to apply it, our education enables students to acquire knowledge in mathematics, data science and AI, all of which are indispensable to realizing the concept of Society 5.0.

The world is facing urgent issues such as climate change and resulting large-scale natural disasters, depletion of natural resources, dramatic demographic changes that need to be solved on a global scale. In such an era with many challenges, Ochanomizu University stands strong with our mission to cultivate global women leaders capable of collaborating with people around the world to build a more peaceful world. Under this mission, we promote international exchanges, offering study abroad/training programs for our students, accepting international students, and exchange programs for researchers. We encourage our students to gain advanced knowledge through their regular coursework, identify a specific issue and find a way to solve the issue through dialogue.

Solving these challenges in today’s world requires comprehensive competency that encompasses an understanding of not only science and technology but also philosophy, history and other areas in humanities/social science. Our university’s strength lies in providing such comprehensive competency-based education and offering a wide variety of programs despite its small size. We are committed to accomplishing our tasks to extensively share the knowledge and experiences we have accumulated with the society by disseminating our educational and research achievements in Japan and abroad, as well as constantly pursuing advanced and creative research, and disseminating/sharing outcomes.

In recent years, Japan has made progress in the advancement of women under various initiatives. According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2023 released by the World Economic Forum, however, Japan is ranked 125th of 146 countries in terms of Gender Gap Index, the lowest in G7 countries. In particular, Japan is behind in the dimensions of political empowerment, and economic participation & opportunity. The percentage of female researchers in Japan, especially in STEM-related fields, remains low compared to those in other countries. Culture and systemic factors in Japanese society remain obstacles that impede the empowerment of women who account for half of the country’s population in pursuing their career. In this context, I believe that fostering outstanding women at women’s universities has great social significance.

Upon becoming a national university corporation in 2004, we set a mission to “be a place where all women who are motivated to learn can realize their earnest dreams.” For many years, we have been committed to supporting women’s access to education and realization of their dreams all over the world including developing countries. This mission is directly connected to the central principle of the Sustainable Development Goals of “leaving no one behind” that the global community is working on. We aim to demonstrate to the world that we are a leader in the drive to create a society in which all of humanity can happily coexist, and to become an educational institution that confronts and strives to solve social issues through world-class education and research, and advanced university management from the perspective of environmental, social, and governance (ESG).

April 1, 2024
Sasaki Yasuko
President
Ochanomizu University

Mission

“Ochanomizu University will support all women, regardless of age or nationality, in protecting their individual dignity and rights, freely developing their unique qualities and capabilities, and pursuing learning so as to satisfy their intellectual appetites.”
As a pioneer of women's education in Japan, Ochanomizu University offers programs that will develop women capable of being opinion leaders in politics, economics, academia, culture, and other fields on the international stage.

These programs that of the “21st century Ochanomizu University model” focus on three areas:

  • 1. Development of higher education for women into the future
  • 2. Centralization of research and 21st century liberal arts education
  • 3. Social contribution and international exchange

Cutting-edge research and development based on new ways of thinking is a unique feature of research at Ochanomizu University.

Educational Characteristics

Highly specialized education to develop women leaders

Ochanomizu University‘s undergraduate courses offer highly specialized education in small class sizes. We have in place a free learning environment that protects the individual dignity and rights of women so as to develop women capable of contributing to the realization of a gender-equal society and to the empowerment of women around the world.

Advanced graduate research closely linked to undergraduate courses

Graduate research promotes a variety of projects, the outcomes of which are deeply reflected in undergraduate courses. We pursue evolutions in the university‘s curricula through their link to cutting-edge research in the graduate school.

Promotion of 21st century liberal arts education integrating the humanities and sciences

The globalization of society in the 21st century is giving rise to concurrent trends in knowledge and technology: specialization and diversification. That is, the knowledge that students acquire must be specialized or it will be useless, and at the same time it must be communicable to people with different national and cultural backgrounds.
In the past, the university offered liberal arts as a preliminary step to specialized education. Whereas at present, we are required to foster in students communication and negotiation skills, a cross-disciplinary viewpoint, and the ability to make judgments in response to change so as to support and enable full utilization of highly specialized education.
Ochanomizu University‘s 21st century liberal arts education aims to build on the foundation of knowledge itself, or the general (liberal) skills (arts) that students can use throughout their lifetime.

Launch of a multiple program elective course system in 2011

The new system enables students to freely combine “core programs,” “specialty programs,” “subprograms,” and “interdisciplinary programs” so as to acquire, in addition to the in-depth knowledge required of them in the past, the knowledge and skills suited to their needs.

History

1875

Tokyo Women's Normal School, Japan‘s first institute of higher education for women and the predecessor of Ochanomizu University, opens in Ochanomizu, Tokyo (now Yushima, Bunkyo-ku)

1879

The school produces its first graduating class of 15 students

1923

School buildings are destroyed by fire during the Great Kanto Earthquake

1932

The school moves into new buildings at the present location (Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku)

1949

Ochanomizu University is established as a women‘s university with a Faculty of Letters, a Faculty of Science and Home Economics

1963

Graduate School of Home Economics (master's program) is established

1976

Graduate School of Humanities and Science (doctoral program) is established

1992

Faculty of Home Economics is reorganized into the Faculty of Human Life and Environmental Sciences.

1997

Master's research courses in humanities, science, and home economics are reorganized into the Graduate School of Humanities and Science (master's program with 6 divisions).

2004

According to the National University Corporation Law, Ochanomizu University becomes a national university corporation.

2007

Strengthening Education and Research through Reorganization of the Graduate School.

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Institutional Data

Number of Students

Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate Freshmen Sophomores Juniors Seniors Total
Faculty of Letters and Education 209 218 231 261 919
Faculty of Science 130

141

 133 150 554
Faculty of Human Life and Environmental Sciences 107 140 145 142 534
Faculty of Transdisciplinary Engineering 53 0 0 0 53
Total 499 499 509 553 2,060

（Numbers include foreign students. As of May 2024）

Graduate Students
Graduate 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year Total
Master's Program 269 265 - 534
Doctoral Program 40 52 190 282
Total 309 317 190 816

（Numbers include foreign students. As of May 2024）

Grand Total
Grand Total Number of Students
Grand Total 2,876

（Numbers include foreign students. As of May 2024）

Number of Staff

Administrative Staff
Administration Office Number of Staff
Administration Office 108
Faculty Staff
Faculty Staff Number of Staff
Undergraduate Courses 1
Faculty of Core Research 171
Others 90
Educational Staff (Attached Schools) Number of Staff
Kindergarten 9
Elementary School 31
Junior High School 24
Senior High School 25
Izumi Daycare Center 4
Center for Early Childhood
Education and Care		 23

（The Graduate School faculty are also responsible for teaching classes in the Undergraduate Faculties. As of May 2024）