Opening New Horizons With Digital Skills

This year is the fourth year of the school’s second five-year plan, and we will continue our efforts with the aim of improving the quality of our education, research, and management infrastructure, the priority policy of the entire school.

In particular, as part of the university's key policy of developing attractive faculties and departments, the school opened the Faculty of Architecture and Design in April 2024, followed by the Faculty of Health Informatics in April 2025. Furthermore, in April 2026, the Department of Digital Games and the Department of Games and Media in the Faculty of Information Science and Arts will be reorganized. Together with the new Games for Social Design Course, the university plans to open a new Department of Digital Games for these three majors. Our university established Japan's first gaming-oriented department in 2003—22 years ago—and this reorganization is designed to be the next step for the current departments. Going forward, games, which have previously been merely entertainment, will become new communication tools and will be utilized to help solve social issues.

Our educational philosophy is practical education that fosters human qualities and technological capabilities and enables students to lead their own lives. We are constantly reviewing our education and research in line with the needs of society, and continually upgrading the content of our practical studies with the keywords “ICT and specialized education,” “interdisciplinary exchange,” and “manufacturing” in mind. Our aim is to develop human resources with digital skills to survive in today’s society where technologies such IoT and generative AI are rapidly evolving.

We will also strengthen our research capabilities and enhance our graduate schools. We will seek to establish a robust virtuous cycle model for society and universities that identifies research issues from and returns those results to society.

In addition, we will focus on promoting internationalization and diversification. Having meetings in a foreign language, having non-Japanese colleagues, and going on business trips or assignments to other countries has become commonplace in society, and language skills and cross-cultural understanding are more in demand. We nurture practical international knowledge and an international sensibility through active overseas study programs and accepting international students.

With the declining birthrate and aging population, it is the mission of higher education institutions to nurture social leaders. Osaka Electro-Communication University aims to be a useful university that continues to change in response to its social mission and produces human resources who can respond to changes in society. We are committed to managing the university with a sense of mission, and we ask for your continued support.

Kuninari Shiota,President