Miyagi Gakuin Women"s University

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Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University has a history of over 130 years. It started out as Miyagi Girls" School, founded by OSHIKAWA Masayoshi of the Church of Christ in Japan, with the assis tance of missionary William Edwin HOI. The Girls’ School was expanded into a high school, and chartered as a private university in 1949. Miyagi Gakuin today comprises a daycare preschool, junior high school, ...senior high school, university and graduate school.
Today, the university has four faculties (Faculty of Contemporary Business, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Human Life Sciences, Faculty of Arts) with nine departments, and two graduate schools (Research School in the Humanities, Research School in Health and Nutrition The total number of students is about 3,000, and the overall student to teacher ratio is between 25 to 30 students.
Education at Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University is based on the spirit of Evangelical Christianity, to educate women to fear God, to seek truth with both freedom and humility, to respect all people on the principle of loving all our neighbors, and to work for the better welfare of all humans and to contribute to world peace.
The environment surrounding universities is becoming increasingly diverse and complicated. Accordingly, the social role of education and research is also becoming more important.
Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University is responding to these social needs through its education and research, conducted in line with the university’s founding principles. We aim to educate members of society to have a broad understanding of both culture and society.
The principles of freedom of education and research, and the guarantee of self-determination for educators and researchers must be maintained, but in order to maintain these principles, educators and researchers are required to maintain the highest standards of moral principles and conduct in their work.
We at Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University will do everything possible to gain the trust and respect of society through our education and research.
There are many student activity circles at MGU, catering to a wide variety of people. There are 20 sports circles, 19 circles for cultural activities, and 9 circles which either do non-competitive sports or hobbies. MGU also has a Liaison Action Center (MG-LAC) to promote, coordinate and provide appropriate support for student volunteers. MGU was first amongst the universities in Sendai to set up such an office after the tsunami and earthquake of March, 2011.
MG-LAC provides interested students with the opportunity to identify problems in the society around them, and to discover productive ways of helping other people find solutions to these problems. University faculty and staff provide advice and guidance as needed. MG-LAC plays an important role in the university"s commitment to training students who can play an active and leading role in helping build local society.
MGU welcomes young women who want to study in the vocational and liberal arts courses that we offer, in order to develop their careers and to further their personal development. To qualify for admission as international students, applicants must have completed a total of 12 years of school education, be of non-Japanese citizenship, and be 18 years or older by 31st March of the year of entry into university. Applicants whose first language is not English are required to have studied English as a foreign language during high school.