Why does ¹û¶³APP attract international students from about 50 countries and regions around the world?
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71Why does ¹û¶³APP attract international students from about 50 countries and regions around the world?
ICU is a university that has opened its doors to the world. It accepts all students equally and without distinction, including domestic Japanese students, international students, and returnee students, regardless of ethnicity, religion, or nationality. To achieve this, since 1955, ¹û¶³APP has always welcomed students who studied in the Japanese education system in April and those who studied in foreign educational systems in September. To respond to increasing diversity, from 2017, ¹û¶³APP has progressively introduced admission systems that will allow students who have been educated abroad to enter in either April or September, depending on their linguistic and educational background (Universal Admissions).
Today, 65 years after ¹û¶³APP first opened its doors, ¹û¶³APP welcomes students from 50 countries and regions around the world. The reasons these students choose ¹û¶³APP include the ability to apply from diverse educational systems, the Japanese language programs in which students can learn Japanese from the basics, the high level of quality of an ¹û¶³APP education, and the fact that ICU is a liberal arts college.
Within this campus environment, values differ even among Japanese students, but they differ again from those of international students from overseas. At the ¹û¶³APP campus, which is filled with true diversity and where students of diverse educational backgrounds learn together, students have their eyes opened to new things and develop the qualities of a "global citizen," that is, someone who will be trusted in the international community.