National Institute of Technology, Numazu College

Decision of Institutional Certified Evaluation and Accreditation
The National Institute of Technology, Numazu 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.
It fulfills all requirements defined as the Priority Evaluation Items in Viewpoint 1-1.
Good practices identified by the review committee include:
The Study Support Center providing a study environment by operating the “Fuji Café” study
space and “Ishizue Juku,” a study consultation space where students can study freely after school
and also receive advice or tutoring from academic staff members in charge and upper-year
students according to their needs, with these efforts and improvements made in response to theneeds and demands of students and academic staff members, resulting in an increasing numberof users each year primarily among lower-year students, who recognize these places as usefulafterschool study spaces;
Introduction of project-based learning (PBL) lessons, creative seminars, and other related classes
in each department’s curriculum with the aim of developing creativity by setting goals and tasks
to work in groups through examinations, discussions, and other activities, thereby earning awards
and achievements in various creative contests and competitions;Internships in the associate degree program designed to develop practical skills by experiencing
research, development, production, and other activities at manufacturing sites and research
institutes to learn firsthand how knowledge and techniques acquired in classes are utilized, witha majority of the participants realizing improvement in their practical skills based on the resultsof student questionnaires conducted after the internships are completed, in addition to that,
achieving successful outcomes, including prizes in symposiums with programs involving
practical skills;
An extremely high employment rate (the number of students employed divided by the number ofstudents seeking employment after graduation) for both the associate degree program and theadvanced course, with students employed in the manufacturing industry, information andcommunications businesses, electricity/gas/heat/water supply companies, academic research andspecialized engineering services companies, 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
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to advance to higher education) for both the associate degree program and the advanced course,with students advancing to the advanced course at colleges of technology or engineering
technology faculties, science and technology academic units, and other faculties/units atuniversities that are related to the associate degree program and the advanced course; and“Off-Campus Training (Internship)” introduced as a required subject in the first-year second termof the advanced course, adopting creative approaches to develop practical skills, including
supervisors and institutions accepting interns working together to discuss and draw up offcampus training plans before internships commence, academic staff members visiting theinstitutions as needed during the four-month internships, and holding briefing sessions open to
the public after completion of the internships.

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

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