NIIGATA UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT（新潟経営大学）
Evaluation summary
This university has demonstrated satisfactory compliance with the standards of the Japan
Institution for Higher Education Evaluation.
Standards

Evaluation result

Standard 1. Mission and Objectives, etc.

SatisfiedStandard 2. Students

SatisfiedStandard 3. Educational Curriculum

SatisfiedStandard 4. Faculty and Staff

SatisfiedStandard 5. Management, Administration and Finance

SatisfiedStandard 6. Internal Quality Assurance

Satisfied

Good practices
None.

Recommendations for improvement○Improvements are required so that policies and criteria regarding learning outcomes are set outclearly based on the university’s diploma policies, and inspections and evaluations are carried out
in accordance with the university’s independent measures/indicators and measuring methods.
○The content of items to be deliberated by the Faculty Council, which is prescribed under Article
12 of the Niigata University of Management Regulations, are deliberated by the Expanded FacultyCouncil, which is not prescribed under the Regulations, and so improvements are required.
○“Matters that the University Council deem to be requisite for deliberation by the Faculty Council”
are deemed to be important matters regarding education and learning stipulated in Article 93,
paragraph (2), item (iii) of the School Education Act. However, these are not prescribed by thePresident or publicized in advance, and so improvements are required regarding this point.
○As prescribed under Article 42 of the Niigata University of Management Regulations, students arenotified of disciplinary action against students via student handbooks. However, procedures fordisciplining students when a transgression has occurred have not been prescribed, and soimprovements are required.
○The university’s audit plan for the 2020 academic year includes plans for “auditing the status ofdirectors’ execution of operations” as prescribed under the Revised Private Schools Act, but theauditors are unaware of the revised provisions. Accordingly, improvements are required in orderto strengthen coordination with the Secretariat in future and ensure that auditors’ duties areexecuted appropriately in accordance with the law.
○The university’s financial situation is not healthy, with the balance of school operation activities’
income and expenditure having been in the red for five consecutive years since the 2015 academicyear; the ratio of personnel expenditure to ordinary income being high compared with the nationalaverage; and current assets, including cash and deposits, having been decreasing continuously.
Accordingly, improvements are required so that a financial plan can be formulated based on midand long-term plan for securing a sustainable, stable financial base and operations can beimplemented in accordance with this plan as soon as possible.
○With regard to cases of important matters on which the President makes the final decision anddecides planning instructions, etc., improvements are required to ensure that management iscarried out appropriately to enable identification of issues regarding items needing improvement
and sharing of information among faculty and staff, such as keeping records related to instructions,
implementation methods, and progress status/results.
○There are problems with the university’s inspection and evaluation of learning outcomes in termsof education and learning, as well as its responses to revisions to laws concerning the President’s
governance in terms of university administration, and efforts to achieve internal quality assurance
are insufficient. Accordingly, improvements are required.