Nagasaki Wesleyan University
International Outlook
The university has a distinctive international outlook. When still a junior college in the early 1980s, several teachers at the school contacted colleges and universities in the United States, the Philippines, Thailand and other countries in an effort to establish sister-school ties and promote student and faculty exchanges. A network of such ties was established, and over the years from roughly 1983 to 1999, several hundred Japanese students from Wesleyan studied abroad for a full year, while hundreds of other students transferred to foreign institutions to complete a baccalaureate degree. This transfer program was dropped when Wesleyan became a four-year institution, but still many students go abroad for exchange study, while hundreds of foreigners come to Nagasaki Wesleyan to study Japanese language and culture. Nagasaki Wesleyan University has a distinctive international outlook. A network of ties have been established with institutes around the world including the United States, Canada, the Philippines, Thailand, India, China, Malaysia, South Korea, and Brazil. Such sister-school ties promote student and faculty exchanges. Nagasaki Wesleyan University is an active participant in the Asian University Union (AU+) and has sister institute relationships with oversea partner universities. Nagasaki Wesleyan University is partners with institutes including Berjaya University College of Hospitality in Malaysia, Shandong Foreign Languages Vocational College in China, Induk University in South Korea, Kun Shan University in Taiwan, and the Don Bosco School of Management in India.