Address: 7-1 Kioicho, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 102-8554
The conference reports will be scheduled in the meeting room in the university.
Sophia University is considered one of the top private research
universities in Japan. According to the Times Higher Education,
Sophia has the 20th place in its 2020 Japan University Rankings and
is the top 4th private university in the country. Founded by the
Roman Catholic religious order of the Society of Jesus in 1913, the
University has grown from its 3 original academic departments of
Philosophy, German Literature, and Commerce to 9 undergraduate
Faculties and 10 Graduate Schools, with over 13,900 students in
total.
Ever since Sophia was established, the University has been a leader
in the internationalisation of Japanese universities. It had been
conducting classes both in English and Japanese, and welcoming
students from abroad from China, Korea, and even from Europe. Soon
afterward, Sophia gained national repute as the leading institution
in globalisation, foreign languages, and literature in Japan. As a
prominent institution for research and higher learning in the fields
of the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences, the
University has been selected by the Japanese Ministry of Education
to be one of 37 universities to receive funding for its
internationalisation efforts through the "Top Global University
Project".
Today, Sophia has international students from 77 countries. It also
has forged agreements with 298 overseas universities in 59
countries. It also possesses student exchange programs with several
other top universities throughout the world, including Georgetown
University, Yale University, The University of Georgia, Sogang
University, Hong Kong University, and the University of Cologne.
Before 1957, the university only admitted male students to degree
programs, but the numbers of male and female students are now more
or less equal. Sophia’s alumni are referred to as "Sophians"; they
include the 79th Prime Minister of Japan, Morihiro Hosokawa, several
politicians represented in the National Diet of Japan, and
professors at various institutions.
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