Business Breakthrough University（ビジネス・ブレークスルー大学）
Evaluation summary
Standard 1. Mission and Objectives, etc.
The mission, goals and educational objectives of the Graduate School are partially incomplete,
but the University has concisely stated them in the University regulations. Moreover, the University
has defined its individuality and distinctive qualities, such as being a private university created byBusiness Breakthrough Inc. and a distance-learning-only university.
The University is responding to changes in society, including by reviewing enrollment quotas,
reorganizing departments, establishing a new course system and reviewing curricula. Based on its
founding principles, etc., the University has decided on three policies of a diploma policy, acurriculum policy and an admission policy while establishing and maintaining affiliated facilities
including a Faculty of Business Administration and a Graduate School Department of Management.
○ We can give the University high marks for individuality and distinctive qualities because not onlyis it a distance-learning-only university, but it also has a framework in which students can attend
and graduate 100% online.
Standard 2. Students
The University has decided on an admission policy based on its founding principles, and it has
publicized it both internally and externally, through student application guidelines and on its website.
Entrant selection is performed appropriately in keeping with the relevant regulations.
In addition to creating a support system for learning and class instruction based on collaboration
between faculty and staff, the University is using the academic progress data collection and analysis
system QlikView to implement a support system for learning and class instruction that leverages theadvantages of online education. It assigns Learning Advisors (LAs) and Teaching Assistants (TAs)to support faculty educational activities while working to develop faculty abilities.
While placing Certified Skilled Professionals of Career Consulting in the Career Center, theUniversity is implementing career education and supporting those seeking employment. This
includes arranging a structure that makes possible individual online consultations at any time.
The University is adequately outfitting the equipment and facilities needed to achieve its
educational objectives. The library room is open until 10 p.m. as a place to encourage effective selfstudy and mutual interaction, and it maintains academic informational materials, primarily online
journals.
The University works to understand student opinions and requests so that diverse students maysmoothly carry out their studies. This includes conducting various kinds of surveys including
questionnaires on courses and graduation questionnaires.
○ We can rate highly the fact that the University is gathering and analyzing in real time data on

academic progress using QlikView, and using that information to prevent students from dropping
out, taking leave of absence and having to repeat a year of their courses.
○ Many LAs and TAs are the University and Graduate School graduates, and they support faculty
educational activities, including by following the progress of in-class discussions. We give theUniversity high marks for this point.
○ We give the University a high rating for fact that students are able to access an abundance ofcontent online because they are given free rights to browse AirSearch, an educational materialand content library.
Standard 3. Educational curriculum
The University has formulated a diploma policy based on its founding principles and educational
objectives, and it clearly states it in its University Regulations. Based on its diploma policy, theUniversity settled on standards for awarding credits, promotion to the next school year, certifying
graduation and completion, and it strictly applies them. Moreover, the University has established acurriculum policy based on its diploma policy and has publicized it. The University has createdsyllabuses for every course in keeping with the Business BreakThrough University Syllabus
Creation Guidelines and has made them available them to students. It has set an upper limit on thenumber of courses a student may register for and has devised a way to preserve the essence of thecredit system.
The University uses educational methods with the distinctive feature of being 100% online. Itsvarious teaching methods include holding joint courses with overseas universities in which it
connects to them in real time and simultaneous lectures using a Web conferencing system for courses
in which students give presentations.
Regarding the learning achievement, the University evaluates students using graduation theses
and grade point average (GPA) and uses these evaluations to improve education. The University alsoendeavors to internally assure the quality of education by revising the content of lectures, eliminating
overlap between the content of lectures throughout the overall curriculum, and verifying the validityof links between courses.
○ We give the University high marks for using the distinctive educational method of online
education using AirCampus® to ensure bidirectionality.
Standard 4. Faculty and Staff
There are some problems with the operation of the Faculty Council, but the University has decided
on Business BreakThrough University Faculty Organization and Operation Regulations to allow thePresident to appropriately show leadership, and it has created an organization to assist the President.
Both the University and the Graduate School have secured numbers of full-time faculty andprofessors that exceed the Standards for Establishment of Universities and Graduate Schools, andthey assign them appropriately. Moreover, the University is appropriately employing and promoting
faculty based on the Business BreakThrough University Faculty Selection Regulations and otherrelevant material.
For Faculty Development (FD), the University implements two kinds — training on AirCampus®
and group training —, and for Staff Development (SD), it implements it systematically with regard
to multifaceted learning support using collaboration between faculty and staff and theimplementation of team teaching etc.
To extend the scholarly creativity of full-time faculty and allow them to engage in sufficientresearch activities, the University works to configure a suitable environment, and it prepares internal
regulations related to research ethics and publicizes them.
○ We give high marks to the University for systematically preparing a variety of SD activities
including the effective use of AirCampus.
Standard 5. Management, Administration and FinanceRegarding the maintenance of management discipline and integrity, the University and thecompany that established it have created various regulations based on related laws and regulations.
The establishing company is a company listed in the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and
it is engaged in continuous efforts to realize its mission and goals, including by building a stablefinancial base through diverse financing and diversification of its business income.
The University has prepared a crisis management system by establishing a crisis management
structure and a method for dealing with risks. The Board of Directors, the top decision-making bodyin the company that established the University, has created a system for making decisions in a waythat is oriented toward the University's mission and goals. This system is functioning properly.
The President also serves as Representative Director and Chairman, and a system is in place thatmakes it easy to exercise the President’s leadership
The University's and Graduate School's fiscal plan (business plan for the next academic year andthree academic years) is drawn up each academic year based on an annual budget planning policyby the establishing company, then submitted to the Board of Directors and voted on.
The establishing company engages in suitable accounting procedures. It created Accounting
Regulations and various in-house regulations in accordance with ASBJ Statements, the Companies
Act, and other laws and regulations. Moreover, internal controls and financial accounting are subject
to a strict annual audit by an external auditing firm in accordance with related laws, which gives thecompany suitable outside opinions.
○ We give the University high ratings for having division heads of the University and Graduate
School hold individual interviews with all staff members every month, a system that allows themto understand staff requests and suggestions.
Standard 6. Internal Quality Assurance
In order that the results of self-inspection and evaluation and institutional evaluation andaccreditation will lead to improvement of and an increase in the University's educational andresearch activities, the Business BreakThrough University Self-Inspection and Evaluation
Committee, a college-wide organization, takes the lead role in implementing internal quality
assurance activities. The University engages in organizational self-inspection and evaluation, having
provided for an internal quality assurance responsibility system in its Business BreakThrough
University Self-Inspection and Evaluation Committee Regulations and having created an IR Officeand Internal Quality Assurance Office.
Regarding the results of this self-inspection and evaluation and institutional evaluation andaccreditation, the University has worked to establish the PDCA cycle for internal quality insurance,
which includes sharing those results within the University, releasing them to the community andusing them to make improvements for the next academic year and beyond.
In summary, as a university established by Business Breakthrough Inc. through the Special
District for Promoting Career Education system in Chiyoda, Tokyo, the University has engaged indiverse education, including making full use of its individuality and distinctive qualities of being a
distance-learning-only university and being 100% online, as well as holding joint courses withoverseas universities in which it connects to them in real time. It is engaged in pioneering higher
education and has shown educational results.
Note that with regard to the University's unique standards, the general comments in "Standard A.
Extracurricular Recurrent Educational Program" and "Standard B. Student Diversity" should bereferred to.
It should be noted that the University has cited the following remark.
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The effective use of the proprietary e-learning system of this University created by thecompany that established the University, and the use of it to offer diverse educational
opportunities to working adults