Thank you for your interest in INIAD (Faculty of Information Networking for Innovation and Design, Toyo University). Here, we would like to explain what kind of place INIAD is and what meaning entrance examinations hold, and share our educational philosophy with you.

First and importantly, university is not merely a place for obtaining qualifications. Basically, there are no specific jobs you cannot engage in just because you didn’t graduate from university. In fact, there are many examples of global success without university graduation, such as Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple founder Steve Jobs.

The purpose of university is to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for navigating your future life. University education’s mission is to provide the power to overcome difficulties you may face in the future.

What we emphasize for this is the motivation to learn. If education doesn’t work well despite having motivation to learn, there is room for improvement on the education side, but without motivation to learn, the education side’s efforts are wasted, and learning opportunities should be given to those with motivation.

In this regard, I would like to touch on our concerns about deviation values in university selection. Deviation values are determined by the lowest scores of those who passed a university’s general entrance exam based on preparatory school mock test scores, so there is a kind of magic to deviation values.

By reducing general entrance exam admissions and increasing admissions through other methods like recommendations and designated school recommendations, the apparent deviation value rises. However, if this method continues, there will be many students below the deviation value in classes, forcing a lowering of educational levels. Also, if such students are forced to graduate, the evaluation of that faculty by corporate HR departments will decrease, potentially disadvantaging subsequent graduates’ employment. In other words, being able to easily enter a faculty that appears to have high deviation values without taking general entrance exams is not necessarily good for the individual’s future.

The original entrance examination is meant to measure and confirm whether there is motivation to learn through test scores, and is conducted on the belief that high school grades alone do not determine everything. Even with poor high school grades, it might be because the high school’s educational methods were not suitable for individual students. In fact, some people can greatly improve their scores with last-minute effort. Therefore, while we provide various types of entrance examinations, what we always seek in each exam is learning motivation and understanding of fundamental knowledge.

There are various formats of entrance examinations including general selection, comprehensive selection, and school recommendation selection, with no format being advantageous. In any format, learning motivation and basic knowledge are evaluated. And admission decisions are made based on these.

Basic knowledge of mathematics, in particular, occupies an important position in INIAD’s educational curriculum. Even if you pass the entrance examination without using mathematics as an exam subject, basic knowledge will be confirmed in a mathematics confirmation test after enrollment in April, and if you don’t pass this, you cannot take some of INIAD’s regular classes.

This confirmation test is not a competitive exam like entrance examinations but a qualification exam where you just need to achieve a certain score, and it’s something you can sufficiently pass if you’ve mastered high school mathematics. We maintain this system based on the belief that receiving university education without basic mathematical ability is undesirable for both the individual and those around them.

If you cannot pass, you will receive supplementary lessons until you pass the confirmation test. Providing multiple opportunities for supplementary lessons and confirmation tests is unique to INIAD, which places the utmost importance on learning motivation.

To reiterate, we seek students who understand what they will learn at university and why they come to university, and can make efforts based on that. We do not conduct selection emphasizing deviation values or school rankings, and learning motivation is most important.

INIAD welcomes all of you with learning motivation. Let’s acquire the knowledge and skills that will lead your life to success together with us.

Reference Data

Currently at many private universities, the proportion of students entering through comprehensive selection and school recommendation selection, which decide admission before the year ends through interviews, essays, and high school grade point averages, is increasing year by year compared to general selection, which decides admission through written exams from January onward.

In private university entrance exams for 2023, while 39.7% entered through general selection, 17.3% entered through comprehensive selection and 41.4% through school recommendation selection.

However, at INIAD, for 2023 entrance exams, 98.3% were through general selection and 1.7% through comprehensive/school recommendation selection, and for 2024 entrance exams, 96.7% were through general selection and 3.3% through comprehensive/school recommendation selection.

At other universities and faculties, many have more than half of their enrollment already decided by December. At INIAD, based on the above philosophy, we want to accept more students through general selection so that those studying hard are properly evaluated.