Overview

• At a Sept. 25 news conference, the university reaffirmed it will not go coeducational and announced three new faculties and two graduate schools to be rolled out from 2027 to 2030.
• The first step comes in April 2027 with a Food Sciences faculty that adds a Food Management department with 60 seats and reorganizes the Food and Nutrition department from the Home Economics faculty with an 80‑student intake.
• In April 2028 the school plans to open a Management faculty (provisional name, 100 seats) and a Data Science graduate school, with another new faculty slated for 2029 and a Management graduate school planned for 2030.
• From the 2026 admissions cycle, merit scholarships will include the Kyojo Spirits award covering four years of tuition and education fees for entrants scoring at least 80% on the three‑subject general exam, and the Kyojo Challenge award granting one year of tuition for 75–80% scorers; example totals range up to about 5.13 million yen.
• Housing and staffing measures include four years of dorm‑fee waivers for scholarship recipients from outside Kyoto, Osaka, and Shiga, an additional 1 million yen over four years for eligible Challenge recipients from those areas, and 11 new hires for Food Management with priority for early‑career women researchers.