Osaka City University

The OCU has about 9,000 students and 2,000 staff members, who study and work with enthusiasm under the university?s motto ?Creativity, Friendliness and Flexibility.? It is OCU?s aim to meet the needs of society and to remain an urban-oriented institution, which strives to study possible solutions to the contemporary challenges facing urban areas as well as ways to enable the sound development of cities. In order to create an optimum educational environment befitting the 21st century, we have been working to renew our academic and sporting facilities over the last years. The Media Center and the Basic Experimental Education Building are both highly sophisticated facilities unique in the country. Innovative efforts have also been made to reform the educational system, such as the participation of graduate students as teaching assistants in undergraduate courses and the introduction of course evaluation by students. These measures should help make classes more interestingThe OCU is also reinforcing its graduate school system to nurture specialists with advanced knowledge, notably by establishing the Graduate School for Creative Cities and the OCU Law School. We hope to further enhance opportunities for creative education and research at OCU, based on our internationally recognized academic quality and outstanding human resources.