2024

On July 25, 2023, Ehime University was selected by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) (Implementing agency: National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Reform) for the “Project for Strengthening the Functions of Universities and Colleges of Technology to Secure Advanced Information Specialists (Support 2)”.

This project aims to provide stable support for ambitious universities and technical colleges to undertake bold organizational restructuring with foreseeability in order to develop highly specialized human resources who will lead growth fields such as “digital green”. The “Support 2” program selected by Josai will provide long-term support (facility and equipment maintenance, personnel expenses, etc.) for initiatives to strengthen the functions of graduate and undergraduate schools (in principle, by increasing the capacity of graduate schools), and is expected to provide up to 1 billion yen over a maximum of 10 years.

Ehime University will increase the number of students in the Graduate School of Science and Engineering’s Mathematical Informatics Program by 20 students to 49 in 2024, in order to continuously foster (1) human resources who create digital technology, (2) human resources who can participate in training digital information personnel as a teacher, and (3) human resources who can utilize digital information in their own fields as digital information personnel as advanced information specialists. In 2024, the Graduate School of Science and Engineering’s Mathematical Informatics Program will increase its enrollment by 20 students to 49 students. In the same year of 2024, the “Special Program for Human Resource Development in Digital Information” will be established in the Faculty of Engineering, and the admission capacity will be increased by 30 students. In addition, the Graduate School of Science and Engineering’s Mathematical Informatics Program will be expanded by 12 students in the 2028 academic year, bringing the total number of students enrolled in the program to 61.

2023

Ehime University established the “Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Regional Resilience Studies” in April 2023, and reorganized the Graduate School of Science and Engineering.

The Interfaculty Initiative in Regional Resilience will be established in cooperation with the Graduate Schools of Humanities and Social Sciences, Education, Medicine, Science and Engineering, and Agriculture at Ehime University, utilizing the “Interdisciplinary Graduate School System” stipulated by law by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. This is the second graduate school to be established at Tohoku University, following the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine, Agriculture and Public Health (Master’s Program) established in April 2022.

Ehime University’s “Kwansei Gakuin” provides education that enables students to acquire practical skills through cross-disciplinary and multidisciplinary study of existing academic fields. This will enable us to connect people with people and knowledge with knowledge beyond specialized frameworks and practical/academic fields, nurture local resources consisting of “nature,” “infrastructure,” “industry,” “history,” “culture,” and “community,” and produce human resources who can solve problems with an eye to sustainability in a wide range of local fields. The goal of the program is to improve the ability of local communities to survive in the face of natural disasters such as the Nankai Trough Earthquake and rapid changes in social conditions such as the declining birthrate and aging population, in other words, to contribute to “improving local resilience”.

For the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, the objective is to produce advanced science and engineering personnel with a good balance of advanced specialized knowledge and transferable skills as transferable general-purpose skills such as communication and problem-solving skills, in a flexible and diverse educational and research environment expected by industry in response to changes in society, The five existing majors will be abolished and replaced by a single major.

2022

In April 2022, Ehime University established the nation’s first Integrated Medical and Agricultural School of Public Health (Master’s Program).

The program will be established through collaboration between Ehime University’s Graduate School of Medicine and Graduate School of Agricultural Science, utilizing the “Interdisciplinary Graduate Schools System” stipulated by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The goal is to realize public health education by integrating medicine and agriculture, utilizing both the strengths of the Graduate School of Medicine in epidemiology, healthcare management, and health data science, and the strengths of the Graduate School of Agriculture in measurement of environmental pollutants, food functionality evaluation technology, and food hygiene knowledge and technology, and to contribute to community-wide health promotion, disease prevention, and infectious disease control in the with-coronary age.