National Institute of Technology, Okinawa College

Decision of Institutional Certified Evaluation and Accreditation
National Institute of Technology, Okinawa College complies with the Standards for theEstablishment of Colleges of Technology and other relevant laws and regulations, and meets theStandards for Evaluation and Accreditation of Colleges of Technology set by NIAD-QE.
Good practices identified by the review committee include:
The growing proportion of full-time female academic staff members and academic staff
members with corporate experience because of the College’s active measures to revitalize its
academic staff organization;“NIT, Okinawa College Seminar” in the first-year subjects of the associate course, aimed atdeveloping creative thinking through comprehensive learning experiences, and “CreativeSeminar” in the second-year subjects of the associate course, designed to foster creativity
through problem-solving learning approaches incorporating the characteristics of differentsubjects, both of which contributed to successful results, for example, winning the school prizein the 2016 High School Student “Monozukuri/Koto-zukuri” Plan Contest;
Introduction of “Creative System Engineering Experiment” in the advanced course, wherestudents from all courses are gathered into several teams that plan and conduct experiments
combining the skills and knowledge of each student to compete with one another, with these
innovative teaching methods enhancing students’ creativity and leading to outstandingachievements, such as the Excellent Student Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) and presentation awards in academic conferences; andAn extremely high employment rate (the number of students employed divided by the number ofstudents seeking employment after graduation) for both associate and diploma courses, withstudents employed in the manufacturing industry, information and communications businesses,
transportation industry, postal service and other employment befitting of the engineers thecollege hopes to produce, and an extremely high rate of students advancing to higher education(the number of students advancing to higher education divided by the number of students
wishing to advance to higher education) for both the associate and diploma courses , withstudents advancing to the diploma courses at colleges of technology or engineering/agriculture
technology faculties or academic units at universities that are related to the students’associate/diploma courses.

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Areas for improvement identified by the review committee include:
Insufficient approaches for examining whether entrants are actually accepted according to theCollege’s admission policy;
A lack of efforts to conduct opinion hearings regarding the graduates’ academic abilities,qualities, and skills acquired during their school years and achievements after graduation; andInadequate processes for the school to fully grasp the lesson improvement status of eachacademic staff member, with progress confirmed through lesson reports, because there are nomechanisms for understanding the situation of improvement activities in all subjects, using only
lesson reports for certain subjects.

This document has been translated by NIAD-QE with consent from the college of technology for thereader’s information only.

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