Admission Policy
Faculty of Policy Planning and Management
The Faculty of Policy Planning and Management aims to nurture individuals with the capacity to consider various issues in society and work toward specific solutions.
Fundamental Qualities Required of Prospective Students
- Students who have acquired the basic academic skills necessary for university study through extensive learning in the high school education curriculum.
- Students who have a desire to identify real-world problems and acquire the sense of duty and morals needed to actively and independently contribute to their resolution.
- Students who can adapt to real-world changes and who have a desire to enrich their humanity by acquiring comprehensive knowledge and communication skills needed to cooperate with diverse individuals.
- Students who have a desire to acquire practical and advanced specialist abilities to identify and resolve real-world problems.
- Students who have a desire to learn in various fields, including Law, Public Administration, Public Policy, Economics, and Sociology.
- Students who have a desire to deeply understand the theories and skills learned at university in connection with real-world problems of society and who have a desire to comprehensively apply their specialist knowledge and skills to resolving those issues.
Basic Policy for the Selection of Incoming Students
The interviews will focus on whether the candidates have a clear idea of what they want to learn at university and their future plans. Through the interviews, candidates’ ability to understand the questions posed by the panel will be assessed, along with their ability to express their ideas in their own words.
Documents such as school records and study plans will be assessed. The evaluation of these documents will consider the results of learning and activities up through high school, the specifics and feasibility of their university study plans, and the results of activities such as creative works and qualifications acquired in high school.
To assess whether the students have accurately understood what they learned up to high school, a scholastic aptitude test will be conducted to assess their general comprehension, mathematical ability, capacity for expression, and linguistic ability based on the content of high school classes.
- Selection by School Recommendation
Admission will be determined through a comprehensive assessment of interviews, formal recommendations from school principals, school records, study plans, and essays.
1-1 Selection by School Recommendation Under the Designated School System
Candidates will be assessed based on the content of their essays, with an emphasis on their capacity for thinking, making decisions, and expressing opinions.1-2 Selection by School Recommendation Under the Open Recruitment System
(Academic Evaluation Category) Candidates will be assessed based on the content of their essays, with an emphasis on their capacity for thinking, making decisions, and expressing opinions.
(Qualifications/Certifications Category) Candidates will be assessed based on qualifications and certifications, with an emphasis on knowledge and skills. - Comprehensive Selection
Admission will be determined through a comprehensive assessment of interviews, school records, study plans, and essays.
2-1 Comprehensive Selection for Scholarship Students
Candidates with particularly outstanding results will be selected for a scholarship.2-2 General Comprehensive Selection
(Presentation Category) The assessment of presentations will focus on the candidates’ capacity for thinking, making decisions, and expressing opinions based on their understanding of various social issues, proposal of unique solutions based on investigations and analyses, clarity of expression, techniques used in the presentation, and appropriate responses to questions.
(Qualifications/Certifications Category) Candidates will be assessed based on qualifications and certifications, with an emphasis on knowledge and skills.
(Recommendation by a Teacher Who is a CUC Graduate) Candidates will be assessed based on character assessment forms, school records, and essays, with an emphasis on their capacity for thinking, making decisions, and expressing opinion.
(Inquiry-Based Learning Category) Through an inquiry-based learning report and an oral examination, candidates will be assessed from the perspectives of their actions in inquiry-based learning, their logical organization and explanation of their own efforts, and the learning and motivation they gained from the experience, with an emphasis on independence, diversity, and cooperation.
(Aptitude Test) Candidates will be assessed based on the results of an aptitude test to evaluate whether they have accurately understood what they learned up to high school, with an emphasis on knowledge and skills.2-3 Simultaneous Comprehensive Selection
(Qualifications/Certifications Category) Candidates will be assessed based on qualifications and certifications, with an emphasis on knowledge and skills.
(Activity Evaluation Category) Candidates will be assessed based on their participation in extracurricular activities, with an emphasis on independence, diversity, and cooperation.
(Activity Evaluation Category) Candidates will be assessed based on their participation in extracurricular activities, with an emphasis on independence, diversity, and cooperation.2-4 Culture/Sports Achievement-based Comprehensive Selection
(Academic Evaluation Category) Candidates will be assessed through a basic scholastic aptitude test, with an emphasis on knowledge and skills. The test is intended to assess whether the candidates have understood what they learned through high school subjects and courses. Candidates with particularly outstanding results will be selected for a scholarship.
(Selection for Scholarship Students/General Selection category) Candidates will be assessed based on their achievements in cultural and/or sports activities, with an emphasis on independence, diversity, and cooperation. - General Selection
Admission will be determined through a comprehensive examination of documents such as a scholastic aptitude test, a comprehensive written test, the results of the Common Test for University Admissions, and school records.
Candidates with particularly outstanding results will be selected for a scholarship. In the Independence Assessment Category, independence will be assessed on the basis of the process of participation in high school learning and the desire to study at university. Knowledge and skills will be given greater consideration for the Individual Examination Category and the Common Test for University Admissions Category.
3-1 Individual Examination Category
Candidates will be assessed based on the results of a scholastic aptitude test, with an emphasis on knowledge and skills. In addition, a comprehensive assessment will be made considering multiple factors. Their capacity for thinking, making decisions, and expressing their opinions will be assessed based on a comprehensive written test. Independence, diversity, and cooperation in extracurricular activities will be assessed based on high school learning outcomes, including school records. Knowledge and skills will be assessed based on qualifications and certifications.3-2 Common Test for University Admissions Category
Candidates will be assessed based on the results of the Common Test for University Admissions, with an emphasis on knowledge and skills. In addition, a comprehensive assessment will be made as follows: independence, diversity, and cooperation in extracurricular activities will be assessed based on learning outcomes, including school records, up through high school; knowledge and skills will be assessed based on qualifications and certifications. - Special Selection
4-1 Special Selection for International Students
Admission will be determined through a comprehensive assessment of interviews, study plans, essays, and Japanese-Language Proficiency Test results. The results of the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test will be used to assess whether the student has sufficient ability to communicate in Japanese at the university, and an interview will be conducted with an emphasis on independence, diversity, and cooperation.4-2 Special Selection based on Recommendation by the National Association of Principals of Commercial High Schools
Admission will be determined through a comprehensive assessment of interviews, school records, and study plans. Scholarship students will be selected through a comprehensive assessment of knowledge and skills based on the acquisition of university-designated highly difficult qualifications.