Office of International Affairs - Mission and Purpose
国際部のご紹介

What does the phrase “international exchange” mean to you? In recent years, words like internationalization and globalization have become commonplace in Japan. With the launch of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Tobitate! (Leap for Tomorrow) Study Abroad Initiative (https://tobitate-mext.jasso.go.jp/), more university and high school students are leaving Japan to study abroad than ever before. Study abroad allows students to immerse themselves in a foreign culture, experience the importance of hospitality as a visitor in a foreign country, and make many lifelong friends. However, what’s even more crucial is expanding your perspective by looking at Japan from the outside as well as having your own strong convictions. 
Kitasato University is a comprehensive life science university with nine undergraduate schools and eight graduate schools, with a strength that comes from being a distinctive private university. Our undergraduate schools have concluded international exchange agreements with 42 academic institutions in 16 countries. Each of them is conducting student exchange programs, such as short-term study exchange programs, based on relationships of mutual trust, creating lifelong benefits to students. They also engage in international collaborative research based on their respective agreements.
There are currently many challenges for Kitasato University related to accepting international undergraduate students due to constraints placed on their curriculum related to national medical licensing examinations. However, we hope to see growing numbers of international students at our graduate schools, which will give our campus a highly international flavor.
Since AY2018, the Office of International Affairs has conducted Cross-Cultural Interdisciplinary Case Study, which was previously led by the School of Allied Health Sciences. This program which started at Kitasato University in the 2006 academic year, invites students primarily from each of our schools’ international partner institutions to participate. This program represents an excellent opportunity for our students to discuss the various challenges that face the field of medicine in English with students from Europe, the Americas and Southeast Asia, all without leaving the Kitasato campus. It is my hope that our students will proactively participate in the program and that this will lead to more Kitasato University students studying abroad.


皆様、国際交流とはどのようにお考えですか？最近、日本でも国際化やグローバル化という言葉が多く聞かれ、文部科学省が支援しているトビタテ！留学Japan（https://tobitate-mext.jasso.go.jp/）により多くの大学生・高校生が日本から飛び立ち、海外に留学する時代となりました。留学した学生は、異文化に触れ、異国でのホスピタリティの大切さを感じ、多くの生涯の友人を作ることになります。そして何より日本という国を外から見て視野を広げることと自分の強固な信念を持つ大切さを学ぶでしょう。
　北里大学は、９学部と大学院７研究科１学府を有する生命科学の総合大学として、特色ある私学としての強みがあります。そして各学部は、16か国42の学術機関と国際交流協定を結び、相互の大学の信頼関係を礎に交換留学プログラムにより短期留学等を実施し、学生の人生の糧になる果実を得ています。また、それぞれの協定により国際的な共同研究が展開されています。北里大学では、多くの学部が医療系の国家試験に関連するカリキュラムの制約があるため、学部での留学生の受け入れは難しいのが現状ですが、今後は、大学院において留学生が増加し、国際色豊かなキャンパスとなることを願っております。
　2018年度からは、前年度まで医療衛生学部を主幹として実施されていた「国際チーム医療演習」を国際部主幹で実施しています。この演習は、北里大学で2006年度から始めた「チーム医療演習」を各学部の国際交流協定校を中心に学生を招いて実施するもので、北里に在学しながら欧米東南アジアの学生と一緒に医療の課題について英語で議論できる素晴らしい機会となります。積極的に本学学生が参加し、将来の留学に繋がることを切に願っております。

The Office of International Affairs seeks to train researchers, technicians and medical personnel who will be active on the world stage, and other global personnel with the necessary skills and mindset. We seek to fulfill the university's mission by creating a campus that radiates international sensibilities. We also focus on our development as an educational and research center that draws talented personnel from around the world, provides an internationally acceptable university education—and guarantees its quality—promotes abundantly creative research originating from Kitasato University. In addition, we seek to contribute to creative collaborations through international partnerships, solve global problems through joint international research, contribute to international society through life sciences education and research, and carry out medical care and promotional activities internationally.

北里大学国際部は、世界を舞台にして活躍する研究者・技術者・医療人の育成をはじめ、国際人として必要な能力・態度の育成をめざしています。また、国際感覚に満ちあふれたキャンパスづくりや、世界各地から優秀な人材が集まる教育研究拠点としての発展も視野に入れ、国際的通用性のある大学教育の展開と質の保証、北里大学発の創造性に富む研究の推進と国際連携による共創への寄与、国際共同研究による地球規模の問題の解決、生命科学の教育・研究、医療と普及活動 の国際的な展開を通じて国際社会に貢献し、もって本学の使命を果たすことを目的としています。