University Accreditation Results(Results for Certified Evaluation and Accreditation for University)

Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences

Basic Information of the Institution
Ownership: Private

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Accreditation Status
Year of the Review: 2020
Accreditation Status: accredited （Accreditation Period: April.1.2021 – March.31.2028）

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Certified Evaluation and Accreditation Resultsfor Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences
Overview
The motto of Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences is Flore Pharmacia! Flore
Scientia Vitae! (“May Pharmacy and the Life Sciences Flourish!”). Holding as its mission
and purpose to “educate individuals to become generous in mind, able to view the world
with a broad-minded perspective reflecting the spirit of humanism, and able to contributeto the welfare of humanity and world peace through the fields of pharmacy and life
sciences.” it conducts its education and research activities as a science university
consisting of two faculties and two graduate schools. In the lead-up to the 150th
anniversary of the University in 2030, the medium- to long-term plan “TOUYAKU150,”
drawn up in cooperation with the University’s managing corporation in AY 2019, outlines
five priority areas: strengthening corporate organization, enhancing a student-firsteducation and research environment, a strategy to bolster the financial situation,
contribution to society and the community, and international exchange. In doing so, it
provides specific guidance for realizing the University’s mission and purpose at a highlevel.
With respect to internal quality assurance, the University has established“Regulations for Check and Review, and Internal Quality Assurance at Tokyo Universityof Pharmacy and Life Sciences,” which lay out the purpose of checks and reviews, asystem for improving and enhancing education and research in faculties, graduate schools,
and the University as a whole, and other aspects of the University’s basic approach toquality assurance. Based on these regulations, regular checks and reviews, andimprovements and enhancements are carried out under the “Self-Study and Evaluation,and Internal Quality Assurance Committee” to enhance education and improve learning
outcomes.
With respect to education and research, faculties and graduate schools
systematically set out curricula that take into account the sequential nature of learning,
clearly indicate the relationship between educational goals and course subjects using
curriculum maps, etc., and strive both to clarify the degree award policy (diploma policy)in their curricula and to ascertain learning outcomes. The University has also taken avariety of measures, including the widespread deployment of active learning and otherforms of teaching, with a focus on fostering the ability to identify and solve problems,
invigorating student learning and enabling effective education. Furthermore, a number of1

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measures are taken to ascertain learning outcomes. As well as conducting variousquestionnaires, graduation theses have been made compulsory in order to assess thelearning outcomes directly, and a rubric-based evaluation chart designed according to“graduation competency” is used as the method for evaluating them. In addition, it iscommendable that the University is engaging in university-wide initiatives to visualize
learning outcomes, such as issuing a diploma supplement to each faculty’s students
describing their efforts and abilities with respect to their graduation thesis research. Inaddition, by setting out distinctive student support programs and organizations in a precise
and multilayered manner, the University has established a system that provides students
with comprehensive, carefully individualized support, and has devised various measures
to ensure that the student support policy is properly realized. The administrative bureau
that underpins these initiatives is also to be commended for its efforts to promote
cooperation between faculty and staff, to bring together various sections, offices, andcenters involved in student support under the “Education and Research Support Division”
for ensuring regular information sharing, and to establish an “Enrollment management
and Research Promotion Section” within that department for developing a system toutilize IR data.
In terms of social cooperation and contribution, the fact that, in accordance with
the University’s basic policy, students and faculty are conducting carefully tailored social
contribution activities in cooperation with the local community is commendable. It is
hoped that, as stated in the medium- to long-term plan, the University will make further
improvements and enhancements by establishing a university-wide community
partnership center and other organizations to oversee its existing activities and conduct
regular checks and reviews on the suitability of its social cooperation and socialcontribution initiatives.
It is commendable that, with the creation of the “TOUYAKU150” plan in AY
2019, a new internal quality assurance system has been established to facilitate theimplementation of these activities and to monitor and review the results, with the “SelfStudy and Evaluation, and Internal Quality Assurance Committee” as the department
responsible. This will harmonize the PDCA cycle in each faculty, graduate school, andother departments, and promote university-wide quality assurance management. We hopethat going forward, the effectiveness of the new internal quality assurance system will beverified on a continuous basis through the use of more objective data as information for
IR, leading to further improvements in education quality assurance, and theimplementation of more precise and strategic initiatives.

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Notable Strengths
Educational Program and Learning OutcomesIn order to ensure the quality of students when they graduate, graduation theses havebeen made compulsory in all faculties. These are assessed using rubric-typeevaluation charts that vary between faculties, designed in accordance with“graduation competency,” degree award policies, and so on. Based on the results ofthis and other information, each faculty’s students are issued with a diploma
supplement that describes their efforts and abilities with respect to their graduation
thesis research. It is also commendable that, in addition to this, the University isengaged in university-wide initiatives to visualize learning outcomes, using
questionnaires on graduation competency to current students and surveys ofgraduates to measure learning outcomes from multiple perspectives.

Student Support
The advisor system, in which full-time faculty members share responsibility forproviding individual support to all students, is to be commended as a key system forrealizing the University’s student support policy by providing guidance inintroductory education, monitoring students’ study situation, offering guidance andmeeting with students who repeat a year or wish to take a leave of absence, providing
consultation and advice on student life and career paths, taking responsibility toaddress parents of students with poor grades, and connecting students to various
support systems. Detailed manuals are provided to the teachers in charge, and care isalso taken to standardize the assistance and support offered. The administrative
bureau that underpins these initiatives is also to be commended for its efforts to bring
together various sections, offices, and centers involved in student support under the“Education and Research Promotion Department” for ensuring regular information
sharing, and to establish an “Educational IR Research Promotion Section” within thatdepartment for developing a system to utilize IR data. In the future, it is hoped that
IR data will be used to show more objectively how various types of support arecontributing to improved learning outcomes, and that this will be used to support
students, leading to further improvements in support and the implementation of more
precise and strategic initiatives.

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