The National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Kisarazu College (Kisarazu KOSEN) is located in Kisarazu City, Chiba Prefecture, where highway networks to Tokyo and Haneda and Narita international airports provide us with convenient access to domestic and international cities. With a beautiful view of Tokyo Bay from our campus,KOSEN is host to 1,100 students majoring in science and engineering in five-year associate program and two-year advanced courses at the university level.
　KOSEN’s primary mission is to foster creative and practical engineers through vocational education that integrates general and professional education and practical training based on theoretical backgrounds. Considering the globalization of Japanese higher-level education, our mission is to provide engineers with intellectual, refined,and broad perspectives; liberal and engineering-based spirits to face any challenge; and the ability to think globally. Our system is widely admired for its high-level vocational education and has been commended in both industrial and academic sectors because of our graduates’ success as engineers, managers, and researchers for the past half century.
　Our academic programs include five engineering diplomas (mechanical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering,control engineering, information and computer engineering, and civil engineering) and three advanced bachelor’s courses(mechanical and electrical engineering, control and information engineering, and civil and environmental engineering). Every year, about half of our graduates find industrial employment as engineers, while the other half transfer to four-year universities from the diploma course and progress to master’s programs from our advanced course.
　In Kisarazu KOSEN, we accept international students in the third year of the five-year program, and we have recently also enhancedenhanced short-term student exchange programs with overseas and polytechnic universities.
　In addition to their studies, we encourage students to participate in sports and cultural activities as character-building opportunities.
　Among over 120 staff members at Kisarazu KOSEN, many educational and technical members are active researchers collaborating with industry and other social services. Compared to most Japanese universities, we have relatively satisfactory instruments and facilities in related fields of engineering. Through Kisarazu KOSEN’s activities, we wish to contribute to Japanese society and develop partnerships with organizations worldwide.

SAKIMURA　Ritsuo