Edogawa University（江戸川大学）
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○Having considered ways to conduct entrance examinations so as to accept a diversity of humanresources, the university is implementing selection methods that focus on measuring the threeelements of academic abilities in each selection process, including independence evaluation using
applicants’ high school academic transcript and four-skill English language proficiency assessment,
and these evaluation methods are presented in the Entrance Examination Guide 2020 in easy-tounderstand charts. These initiatives are worthy of evaluation.
○Administered jointly by the Center for Liberal Arts and Basic Education (CLABE) and Academic
Administration Department of Academic Affairs Division, the Active Learning Studio functions
sufficiently as an environment where students can independently develop learning habits throughthe assignment of faculty members to provide supplementary lessons and student assistants (SAs).
This initiative is worthy of evaluation.
○Edorill and other e-learning systems have been incorporated into re-learning opportunities andpre-matriculation education for students. Data from these systems is shared appropriately among
faculty and staff, and a support system for everyday learning and class instruction is being
constructed. These initiatives are worthy of evaluation.
○Luncheons and other opportunities have been created for the President to discuss the learning
environment and state of campus development and improvement directly with students while
chatting with them, and a system has been put in place for reflecting students’ opinions in campus
development and improvement plans and business plan proposals. These initiatives are worthy ofevaluation.

○Original incentive expenditure paid in accordance with evaluation and selection status under theJSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Program is prescribed under internal rules, andawareness and motivation to acquire JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research is raised throughcollaboration between faculty and staff by means of Meetings to Consider JSPS Grants-in-Aid for
Scientific Research, etc. held within the university. These initiatives are worthy of evaluation.
○The effects achieved by reconstructing the student recruitment system in line with the mid- andlong-term plan of the university’s incorporated entity have manifested in concrete outcomes suchas a rapid increase in the number of admission applicants and resolution of the issue of the numberof entrants falling below yearly enrollment quotas, leading to a dramatic improvement in balanceof payments structure in a short period of time. These initiatives are worthy of evaluation.
Recommendations for improvement○With regard to the Department of Business Management of College of Sociology, because the total
capacity fill rate for the 2021 academic year was more than 130%, improvements are required toensure appropriate management of entrant numbers in accordance with yearly enrollment quotas.