Waseda University to accept 8,000 foreign students in 5 years

Waseda University, one of Japan’s best-known private universities, is going cosmopolitan.
President Katsuhiko Shirai said the university plans to increase the number of foreign students to 8,000 in five years, up from the current 2,400.

The university plans to double the percentage of foreign teachers to 20 percent and increase the number of classes conducted in English. The university plans to increase the capacity of dormitories to 5,000 students, from the current 1,000, which include Japanese.

Waseda, which marks its 125th anniversary on Sunday, already has a relatively multicultural campus among Japanese universities.

As of May 1, 2006, 2,190 foreign students were studying at Waseda, second only to 2,197 at the University of Tokyo, according to the Japan Student Services Organization.
(IHT/Asahi: October 18,2007)
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