I want to be a university that continues to climb the hill to become a world-class prestigious university.

Now, Shimonoseki City University is on the path to a world-class prestigious university that can be recognized.

In this era, when the speed of change is intense and expectations and anxiety about the AI society are mixed, our university looks ahead to what universities need to do and what students living in the future can do, 50 years and 100 years ahead. Continue on various challenges.

With the opening of the Faculty of Nursing in 2025, it is finally about to become a comprehensive university. New initiatives have been launched one after another based on the conclusion of international academic exchange agreements with regional and industry-academia-government collaborations and world-famous universities (France: Voldo Monteigne University and San Francisco State University) in recent years. In FY2024, a joint subject was set up in collaboration with Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd., joint research with Shimonoseki City and the Yamaguchi Financial Group began.In addition, a global joint degree acquisition system utilizing the international network in 2025 and a doctorate international cooperation We are preparing for.

In the midst of fierce competition among universities, the 2024 entrance examination, which welcomes students in the first year of the opening of the Faculty of Data Science, recorded a top-class application ratio at national and public universities. In addition, he ranked first in the national scale ranking of “small but can be evaluated” in the 2023 University Communication Online evaluated by high school teachers for the first time, achieving the second place in the Chugoku and Shikoku districts. It has been highly evaluated from outside the university, winning the highest ranking in the Chugoku and Shikoku districts in the past five years. On campus, satisfaction with university life has been increasing as a result of reforms that advocated “student first principle” that has been pursued since 2021. The student questionnaire in FY2023 showed us that the level of learning acquisition was improved from 30% to 70% and the level of learning satisfaction increased from 50% to 80% compared to before the reform.

The title of the work of Ryotaro Shiba's "The Clouds on the Slope" by Ryotaro Shiba, a novel set in Japan, which is overtaken by Meiji period, and overtakes the Western countries. So far away, our university hopes to become a university that is said to be "Shimonoseki City University in Japan" and will continue to climb the slope toward a world-class prestigious university.

Shimonoseki City University, President

HAN Changwan

HAN Chang-wan, Ph.D.

Final educational background

• Graduated from Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine (March 2005)
• Graduated Ph.D. Graduate School of Economics, Tohoku University (September 2011)

Degree

• Dr. (Medical Expo) No. 88 (March 2005)
• Dr. (Keihiro (Business Administration) No. 84) (September 2011)

Career

• Part-time lecturer at Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
• Visiting Professor, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
• Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health and Welfare, Matamatsu University, Korea
• Professor, Faculty of Education, University of the Ryukyus, National University Corporation
• Director and Vice President of Shimonoseki City University
• Dean of Graduate School of Economics Research Department, Shimonoseki City University
• Vice President, Shimonoseki City University (General)
• Appointed President, Shimonoseki City University (April 2022)

From the President room

Successive President