Sending Universities

Gangwon-do province's flagship educational institution, Kangwon National University is one of Korea's ten core national universities. It started life as an agricultural college, expanding over the years to include medicine and veterinary schools as well as one of Korea's officially approved cutting-edge law schools. To this day agriculture and forestry remain at the university's heart.

Established as a school for Western studies in 1858, Keio University was also the first of Japan’s universities to accept international students. Now, it has over 350 overseas partner institutions, numerous well-respected double-degree programs with top universities abroad, and over twenty degree programs taught entirely in English. Keio is one of Japan’s prestigious Global 30 Project universities and ranks in the top 100 universities worldwide. Alumni include prime ministers, astronauts, Olympians and Paralympians, and actors, musicians, and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.

A school founded in 1592 on the teachings of Buddhism, Komazawa University was officially inaugurated as a university in 1882. One of the oldest universities in Japan, its mission to nurture Buddhist teachings continues both in its Museum of Zen Buddhist Culture and its Faculty of Buddhism. Now with numerous faculties, departments, and research institutes, Komadai, as it is known, works to maintain the highest standards in cultural and social sciences on its peaceful, tree-lined campus.

Konan University is a university at the foot of Mount Rokkō in Kobe, Japan. Konan is private university and was founded in 1951. The university traces its origin to 1918 when Konan Gaku-en Middle School was founded in Okamoto, Kobe, Japan. Hachisaburō Hirao, the founder and a former minister of Education, based the formation of the school on the ideals of character building, physical fitness, and respect for the individual. Konan University offers a variety of programs to students, as well as international exchange.

The Hirao School of Management focuses on the study of economics and organizational management. The School works to strengthen the ability of students to learn independently and in cooperation with others thus equipping students with perseverance and fortitude.

Konan Women's University is a private women's college in Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan. Since its founding in 1920, Konan Women's University has strived to realize its founding spirit - in accordance with its educational policy of "education for the whole person, respect for individuality, learning with an independent and creative spirit" - and it has graduated a large number of well-informed and confident women, thereby earning the trust and meeting the expectations of today's society. The school motto - "be pure in heart, be truthful, be kind, and be strong" - expresses their philosophy of humane education and reflects their wish that the students the school serve develop the ability to serve others and contribute to world peace and the welfare of humanity.

Established as a teacher-training college, Kongju National University continues its tradition of producing middle- and high-school teachers - and KNU's College of Education consistently has the most students passing the Teacher Certification Examinations, nationally. A university of three sites, KNU's TRI-CAMPUS offers science, education, and industry-focused undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and it runs an international studies program, taught in English, that focuses on economics, business, math, and statistics. KNU is the only national university near the new public administration complex city, Sejong, and has been recognized as a hub of National Human Resources Development, promising the university's steady growth in the 21st century.

The first private university established in modern Korea, Kookmin University continues its mission to create the competent professionals that industry and society needs. Now one of the top 20 universities in the country, it stays true to its four founding principles of humanism, nationalism, culturalism, and industrialism. Its lush surroundings of Bukhansan National Park belie its forward-thinking status as a Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning-named software-oriented university, with an award-winning Space and Environment Design Lab and a Silicon Valley Internship program to tempt Korea's top talent. KU has strong international links, with exchange programs, information shares, and joint research arrangements.