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This graduate school was established in April 2007. The main purpose is to improve professional teaching skills in curriculum guidance and problem-solving skills generally and practically through a dialogue education being conducted intensively in small groups.

Our utmost concern is how to deal with various problems in school education and to conduct a wide variety of research of individuals, society at large, and materials involved in the educational field.

Specifically, theoretical and practical research in school education is essential in closely cooperating with the local community on the basis of traditional psychology and pedagogy.

The highest ranked qualification of an advanced teaching credential, followed by first and second teaching credential can be earned after completion of the course. In addition, students are qualified to be school psychotherapists based on field work.

The Bunkyo University Foundation is an academic group with four campuses. The Headquarters is located at the Hatanodai campus in Tokyo’s Shigagawa Ward. There are also three schools attached to the University - a kindergarten, a junior high school, and a senior high school. Including the student enrollment in the kindergarten, there are 1,400 students attending these schools.

The Koshigaya campus, located in Koshigaya City, Saitama Prefecture, consists of the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Human Sciences, the Faculty of Language and Literature, the Graduate School of Human Sciences (Master’s & Doctoral program), the Graduate School of Language and Culture (Master’s & Doctoral program), the Graduate School of Education, the Special Postgraduate Course and the Foreign Student Department. 5,000 students are enrolled in the Koshigaya campus.

In the Shonan campus in Chigasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, 1,700 students are enrolled. The campus comprises the Faculty of Information and Communications, the Faculty of Health and Nutrition, the Graduate School of Information and Communications (Master’s program). There are currently 1,900 students enrolled and studying at our Tokyo Adachi Campus in Adachi Ward of Tokyo. The campus is home to our Faculty of International Studies, Faculty of Business Administration, and Graduate School of International Studies(Master's program), as well as, the Secretarial Department of the University.