Reforms to University Education Content in FY2023

The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology regularly surveys the implementation of improvements to university education content and methods and works to provide information to the public.

The results of this survey summarize reforms to education content and related areas implemented by universities in FY2023.

The survey aims to provide information to the public and promote more proactive efforts by universities to improve education content and related areas.

Except for some questions, individual response data are published after anonymization to prevent university names, faculty names, and other identifying information from being identified or inferred, so that the data can be used for analysis and other purposes at universities.

The survey covered national, public, and private universities selected from the 810 universities in the FY2023 Basic Survey of Schools, excluding junior colleges, professional and vocational universities, professional and vocational junior colleges, and universities that had stopped recruiting students in the same fiscal year. Questionnaires and related materials were posted on the Ministry's website, responses were requested from all universities through December 2024, and the results were then tabulated.

Individual response data are presented by region—Hokkaido and Tohoku, Kanto, Chubu, Kinki, Chugoku and Shikoku, and Kyushu and Okinawa—and by institution size: A (at least 5 faculties), B (2 to 4 faculties or more), and C (single-faculty universities).

The examples cover the specification of learning objectives through the “three policies,” the organization and implementation of courses and curricula, the assessment and visualization of learning and educational outcomes, the foundation supporting academic management, and initiatives for public disclosure of information.