2. Progress of Efforts for FY2015■ Common performance indicators and achievement targets
1. Efforts toward internationalization○ Encouragement of Japanese students to study abroad
Established in FY2014, the Faculty of International Liberal Arts allows students tograduate after taking only courses given in English. The faculty requires students tostudy abroad for about one year from the second semester of their first year to theUnited States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. In FY2015, including thesestudents, total of 971 Japanese students (12.4% of all Soka University students) studiedabroad.

○ Expansion of foreign student intake

Students of the Faculty of International Liberal Arts
studying at Goldsmiths, University of London

As of May 2016, 447 foreign students (5.6% of all Soka University students) from 47 countries/territories on five continents are studying atSoka University. To further enhance this environment, in which foreign and Japanese students study together, a new International Student
Dormitory is planned, in addition to the current one, which houses 100 male and 100 female students. Accommodating 400 male and 144
female students, the new facility will be completed in the spring of 2017. The new dormitory will accept both Japanese and foreign
students to encourage the development of their intercultural communication skills.

○ Expansion of Japanese language education for foreign students
In line with the increase in foreign student numbers and in order to establish anenvironment that is more responsive to increasingly diverse Japanese learning needs,
the Japan Studies Center has expanded its learning levels from five to six by adding a
new introductory Japanese language course. Further, the Japan Studies Center has
been running a Japanese Language and Japan Culture Study Program to meet thedemands of our international exchange partners.

○ Expansion of international exchange partners

International Student Dormitory to accommodate Japaneseand foreign students (Scheduled for completion in spring2017; Artist’s impression of the building for male students)

To enhance mobility between students, we have made efforts to expand ourinternational exchange partners. As of May 2016, we had managed to increase thistotal from 148 universities in 47 countries/territories (at the time of application for theMEXT “Top Global University Project”) to 181 universities in 54 countries/territories. We
will enhance exchanges with these partners by exchanging students and overseas
short term programs, and aim to increase our partners to 200 universities in 60
countries/territories by 2023.

2. Governance Reforms○ Aggressive recruitment of international faculty members and staff
As of May 2016, through internationally opened recruitment for excellent non-Japanese nationals, and an aggressive promotion campaign
to recruit Japanese faculty members who have obtained PhDs at overseas graduate schools, Soka University has now 175 international
faculty members (non-Japanese nationals, Japanese citizens with degrees from foreign universities, or persons who matriculated orparticipated in research programs at university level institutions outside Japan for a total of more than one year). Such staff represent
49.1% of all full-time faculty members.
○ Efforts for development of administrative staff
We plan to aggressively recruit personnel who have degrees from overseas universities or working careers abroad. Further, we will give
all administrative staff priority to persons who possess a certain level of foreign language skills—concretely, ability equivalent to TOEIC
score of 730. As of May 2016, we have 49 full-time staff who meet this foreign language requirement (22.1% of all staff).

3. Educational Reforms○ International Program (IP) for studying specialized courses in English
For the purpose of providing a “specialized course program to study in English” in order to maximize the characteristics of each of ourfaculties, we started the “International Program (IP)” in the Faculty of Economics ten years ago. We have since expanding this program
into other faculties. As the result of these efforts, in FY2015, we had a total of 203 courses (excluding linguistic courses) taught in foreign
languages for our undergraduate programs and graduate schools—that represents about 5% of all courses.

○ Expansion of “English Medium Program” to permit students to graduate/complete only with courses in English
In FY2016, we established courses to permit students to complete only with courses in English in all three majors of the Graduate School ofEngineering and Economics Major (scheduled to start in September). As a result, we now have a total of seven courses, including existing
two undergraduate courses (Faculty of International Liberal Arts, which requires students to study abroad for a year from the second
semester of their first year, and Faculty of Economics SUCCEED) and one graduate course (TESOL).

○ Promotion of syllabus in English
We are promoting the use of syllabus written in both Japanese and English for core courses and some other courses that have beenstudied by many foreign students in the past. In FY2016, 33.5% of all courses in our undergraduate programs and graduate schools aredescribed in English to facilitate the fulfillment of the Learning Agreement.

■ University-specific performance indicators and achievement targets○ Our unique targets to become a “Global Initiative for Humanistic Education”
In addition to our continued efforts to achieve the performance indicator for the GGJ project, we have set up the following uniquequantitative targets:
As the ideal future direction for an education/research institute, we aim to establish a "Global Initiative for Humanistic Education”; and inorder to foster "Creative Global Citizens”, we aim to promote internationalization as a means to guarantee diversification and quality.

[Examples of Soka University’s unique targets]▶ Increase of countries and regions for exchanges[FY2014 (at the time of being selected for the MEXT “Top Global University Project”)] 37 countries/regions => [May 2016]
54 countries/regions => [FY2023 (at the end of the project)] 60 countries/regions (target)▶ Increase of students receiving job offers from global enterprises
・As an index of human resources educated through our project, we are aiming to increase the numbers of students
receiving job offers from the 500 global companies which are announced every year by “Fortune” business magazine of theUnited States or America.
[FY2014 (at the time of being selected for the MEXT “Top Global University Project”)] 105 students => ［FY2015］ 132
students => [FY2023 (at the end of the project)] 200 students (target)[Distinctive efforts based on the university’s characteristics]