Why does ICU not have an “international students dormitory?”

At all of ICU's student dormitories, Japanese and foreign nationals naturally live a communal life on an everyday basis. For this reason, the conscious decision has been made not to refer to them as "international student dormitories."

On the other hand, at ICU, student dormitories are places where students foster respect for human rights and diversity and learn to share responsibilities and duties through dialogue in a communal living.

Currently, more than 800 students, or a quarter of ICU's total student body, live in dormitories. They hail not only from overseas, but even from the suburbs of Tokyo. Students who have grown up in different environments, and who have different personalities, beliefs, languages, cultures and religion live and learn together in the dormitories. There are a wealth of things for them to discover in the course of such a lifestyle.

Those four years of dormitory life, in which the students experience their daily joys and struggles together, become precious memories for the students, memories that they will never forget long after graduating. Even after graduation, they refer to their dorms as "home" and their dorm-mates as their "second family." That there are so many graduates who think this way is another distinctive feature of ICU's student dormitories.