Why do ICU students love to learn?

That is because learning at ICU is fun. Through learning, they learn how to think well to live well, to practice what they learn in the community, and new worlds that they have never experienced are opened up to them.

Our students borrow an average of 50.6 books from the ICU library every year, which is six times the national average. This figure is testament to the fact that ICU students love learning to a degree completely beyond the common wisdom of other Japanese universities.

At other universities, courses run for a full year or a semester and classes are held once a week for 90 minutes. ICU, however, operates on a trimester system and most courses have three 70-minute classes a week. This enables students to study a subject intensively each trimester. In the classroom, students discuss topics across the humanities and the sciences with students from diverse year levels and specializations. This creates encounters with unexpected beliefs and values, which can shake up their own beliefs.

As a result, when students come to decide on their major at the end of their second year, many of them want to know more about many things. Their curiosity overflows and they come to love their studies even more.