Founding philosophy and basic educational goals

At the University’s first entrance ceremony for new students (in 1949), the first President of Musashi University, Wakichi Miyamoto, advocated an educational philosophy built on small class sizes based on seminars and enriched foreign-language education, inheriting the Musashi Academy’s three founding principles the former Musashi High School. He stated that the University would “train Japanese students with broad-ranging worldviews, who are capable of original research and independent thinking as members of the world community while never losing their critical spirit.”

Later, the Musashi Academy Future Vision formulated in 2006 amid dramatically changing social conditions of the world and Japan, set the university's vision to "integrate knowledge and practice" in education that emphasized the importance liberal arts, based on the three ideals. 

Later amid the accelerated process of globalization, the Board of Directors meeting held in March 2014 adopted as the management strategy of the Musashi Academy as it marks the centennial of its establishment the following Chairman’s Doctrine: “Directing our gaze outward toward the world, we aim to be a school that fosters internationally-oriented graduates able to take on the challenges of the 21st century.” Then, in October of that year the Board established an Academy Chancellor’s Plan entitled “Becoming a Liberal Arts Academy Open to the World.” In response, Musashi University established in its Third Medium-term Plan (2016–2021) a new vision for the run-up to the centennial of the Academy’s founding in 2022: “Training global citizens with the educational grounding to understand different cultures and build a new future: Revisiting the Academy’s three founding principles on our centennial anniversary, we aim to pass these on to the next generation as we implement reforms for the future.” 

Based on this vision, the Third Medium-term Plan identifies the strategic theme of “training global citizens with a firm grounding in liberal arts education,” under which the University has decided both to steadily implement new programs and courses in each faculty geared toward an age of globalization and to enrich its liberal arts education even further. At the same time, We have reviewed the three policies of each faculty and graduate school and formulated the Musashi University Global Education Policy.

In order to reach these three goals outlined in MGP, all Musashi University students should aspire to strengthen their abilities and, as graduates, seek to contribute to society and take an active interest in solving issues of mutual concern.

Specifically, Musashi University supports the following three aspects:

       i.       Broadening knowledge of diverse cultures

      ii.      Improving communication skills in foreign languages

      iii.     Strengthening global leadership competence

Musashi University’s global education includes two major components; 1) various programs supported by the Musashi University Global Education Center; and 2) the curriculum of each undergraduate and graduate department.

What follows are the four major target figures of the programs (implemented as part of university-wide endeavors) which aim to be achieved by the end of the Academic Year 2027 (the final year of the Fourth Middle-Term Plan). Each undergraduate and graduate program develops relevant policies for its discipline-specific global education.