Overseas expansion of educational networks

Since the opening of the university in April 2004, we have been aiming to become a global educational institution and have been actively promoting cooperation with overseas governments and educational institutions, and our network has been gradually expanding.We are developing a variety of initiatives to realize the world's highest level of IT education and to foster IT professionals with an international mindset.

Educational Support

Since 1989, the KCG Group has been supporting overseas computer education at the request of governments and universities in more than 20 countries. The content of the support covers a wide range of areas, such as the provision of on-site lectures by sending teachers, the creation of curriculums, and the construction of networks. Through these activities, a global educational network centered on the KCG has been formed.

kcg.edu forms a strong academic network with overseas universities.

Extensive partnerships with RIT and other academic networks with leading U.S. universities

In 1989, Kyoto Computer Gakuin (KCG), one of our group schools, established a satellite office in Boston, US, the birthplace of computer culture as the only Japanese information technology vocational school. It has been a base for overseas study for our students and a base for exchange with universities and research institutes in the United States.

With the opening of Boston Satellite, a strong network of professors and researchers has formed with several universities in the United States, including Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, Columbia University, and the University of Illinois. The results of these exchanges have contributed to the opening of new, cutting-edge KCG programs. In 1993, with the full support of RIT professors who boast top performance in the fields of CG and photographic engineering in the United States, the Department of Art and Information Science was established. In 1996, with the support of young researchers in the computer science department at MIT, the Department of Network Science was established.

In 2000, we moved our base to New York, and opened KCG New York Office in the World Trade Center Building in New York City as a new exchange base with RIT and other American universities.

Our New York office was damaged by the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in the United States, but we moved our office to the Rockefeller Center Building. From there, we continue our activities to further strengthen our academic network.

In August 2013, we invited the Dean of the School of Computer Science from Manhattan College to give a joint class on game programming. In October 2014, we signed an academic exchange agreement with the Metropolitan University, and are making efforts to build further networks in the United States.

Academic Network with Chinese Universities

Since its establishment in 2004, KCGI has been actively involved in exchanges with Chinese universities. In 2006, we concluded an academic exchange alliance with Tianjin University of Science and Technology. In 2000, it became a sister school of Kyoto Computer Gakuin (KCG), and a joint program, "Tianjin University of Science and Technology KCG Course" has been established in the university. In addition to providing opportunities for graduates of this course to further their education, we also actively promote exchange among faculty members through our partnership program.

Since then, we have concluded academic exchange agreements and joint education agreements with many Chinese institutions of higher education. In addition, since 2009, based on an exchange agreement, KCGI has been dispatching faculty to Fujian Normal University to conduct multimedia (especially anime)/network-related classes, and actively promoting exchange.

Academic exchange alliance between the Graduate School of Information Protection, Korea University and the National Jeju University

Exchanges with the Republic of Korea began in 2004 when we formed an academic exchange alliance with the Republic of Korea's No.1 graduate school for training information security professionals, the Graduate School of Information Protection, Korea University. As a leader in the IT fields of Japan and the Republic of Korea, we have contributed to the development of research and education in Asia by co-hosting a Japan-Korea Joint Seminar on Cheju Island, the Republic of Korea in 2005, and a Japan-ROK-Vietnam Joint Seminar in 2006. In addition, KCGI and National Jeju University concluded an academic exchange agreement. In 2008, a Japan-Korea cyber campus was realized with the support of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Cyber Campus Development Project, which allows students from both universities to exchange lectures on the Internet.In 2010, we signed a partnership agreement on a dual degree program, and it is expected that the two universities will further promote the exchange of education in the IT field.

In 2008, the school formed a partnership with Jeju Techno Park (Former Jeju Knowledge Industry Development Institute), and in 2009, it signed an agreement with Jeju International University (former Jeju University of Industry and Information) regarding a joint education project.

Experts from various countries who support the education of the KCG Group (excerpt)

• Director, Goddard Institute for Space and Astronautical Science, NASA Ph.D. James E. Hansen
• Ph.D., former director of research at NASA's Institute for Atmospheric Science Albert Arking
• Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Education, University of Columbia, United States Dale Mann
• Professor, University of Columbia, U.S.A. Arthur Langer
• Ed. D., founder of the Department of Peace Education, Columbia University School of Education, United States. Betty A. Reardon
• Former George Washington University Graduate School of Education Professor Ph.D. William K. Cummings
• President, International University of Central Asia, Kyrgyz Republic, Former Harvard University Professor, Columbia University Computer Systems Laboratory Director, Ph.D. John Clark
• Professor of Radio Astronomical Observatory, Massachusetts State University, USA, Ph.D. William Irvin
• Former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor Ph.D. Ruth Perry
• Former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor Ph.D. Travis Merritt
• Former Vice President of Corporate Relations, Rochester Institute of Technology, U.S.A. Donald Boyd
• Former president of Keuka University, Jorge D. Herrera
• Professor of IT, Rochester Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Jim Leon
• Former Rochester Institute of Technology Professor Ed. Russell Kraus
• Former Executive Vice President, Rochester Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Jeremy Hefner
• Ph.D., Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Andrei L. Carano
• Former president of Korea University Graduate School of Information Protection Ph.D. Jeong In Lim
• Chairman of the Personal Information Committee for the President of the Republic of Korea, Ph.D. Hong-Seop Lee
• Former president of Goyang Knowledge and Information Industry Promotion Agency, South Korea Ph.D. In-hwan Kim
• Former President, Jeju National University, Korea, Ph.D.Chung-Seok Goh
• Gye-chun Kim, chief editor, Jeju Mainichi Shimbun, Korea
• Professor Ph.D., University of Munich, Federal Republic of Germany. Werner Detrov
• University of Warsaw, Poland, Ph.D. Romualdo Fusteur
• Ph.D., Professor, Jilin University, People's Republic of China Kwang-Gyun Hyun
• Former president of the Dalian Foreign Language Institute of the People's Republic of China Yu-hua Sun
• Taipeng Wei Deputy Executive Director, Department of Education and Engineering, Tianjin City, People's Republic of China
• Tao Wen, Director of Dalian Dongsoft Press Institute, People's Republic of China
• Yao Jie, Dean of the Graduate School of Ocean Studies, Dalian, People's Republic of China
• Yang Deoxin, Director, Dalian Institute of Science and Technology, People's Republic of China
• (Signed) Andy Suwaji Essien Director of Higher Education Department of Education Government of the Republic of Ghana
• Kra Somtrakour Adviser, Ministry of Education, Kingdom of Thailand
• Former Mayor of Wurzburg, Federal Republic of Germany, Ph.D. Klaus Zeitler
• Chan Ba Viet Dung Director of International Cooperation Division Ministry of Education and Training of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam
• Gyorgy Darek Director General for Information and Education Ministry of Education of the Republic of Poland

Many others are omitted.

Affiliated educational institutions (excerpt)

Many Others