Okayama University's educational reform program called “PRIME Program: producing practical-oriented human resources in a global community” has been selected for support under Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)'s Top Global University Project.

The project seeks to put reform of university education and internationalization into practice, supporting the development of educational environments to realize internationally aligned and thus internationally competitive universities, and will be implemented for up to 10 years from this year.

Okayama University was the first national university to adopt entrance tests for an international baccalaureate in 2012, as well as opening a Special Course for Global Human Resource Development in 2013. These and other reforms have worked toward our internationalization. This April the university appointed an executive director and vice president (university reform) and president's aides, to accelerate and strengthen such efforts still further. Under support from this project, we shall foster human resources able to act decisively on the top stage globally, promoting in every organization of the university 3x3 education for the students to acquire the three core powers (liberal arts strength, linguistic ability and professional knowledge) and experience the three faces (inter-discipline inter-society and inter-culture).

More details of the PRIME Program can be found in the following website (Japanese only). //www.okayama-u.ac.jp/buildandrenovate/