National Institute of Technology, Kagoshima College, commonly known as KOSEN, was founded in April, 1963 in response to the greatly increasing demands from local industry. During that period of time, NIT/KOSEN was only founded with mechanical engineering and electrical engineering courses. Gradually, they had managed to establish other courses including civil engineering , information engineering, electronic control, and advanced engineering. The regular course aims to teach special subjects on the basis of the Fundamental Law of Education and the Fundamental Law of School Education, and foster the ability useful for future profession. The advanced engineering course aims to teach sophisticated special knowledge and skills concerning industries on the basis of special subjects learned in the regular course and encourage the talent to contribute on the industrial development.
KOSENs are national institutes of higher education systems adopting 5-year integrated education conferring associate degree and 7-year integrated education conferring bachelor’s degree. Our unique training system enables us to foster knowledgeable and work ready engineers over the long term with an advantage of starting pragmatic training at early stage of higher education to meet the high qualification. The graduates from NIT, Kagoshima College have been highly evaluated by society for their terrific performances in the manufacturing industry over the half century since its establishment. In the period of KOSENs’ establishment across the country, the industry had revived toward high economic growth, to overtake the West by adopting their technology. Comparing to this period, KOSEN is now at the frontier leading the industry and expected to nurture top-rated and internationallyminded engineers with flexibility and creativity toward globalization. We believe engineers in the midst of globalization need interactive communication skills as well as English proficiency. To achieve our mission, we provide students with quite many opportunities to experience diverse, multicultural environments through the students exchange programs with the alliance schools as well. NIT, Kagoshima College, a member school of National Institute of Technology-NIT, enrolls 1,000 students. Then NIT enrolls 50,000 students in total, which is the second largest higher educational institute in Japan. Again, our objective is to be fast-responders to the needs in local community and to foster international-minded engineers in global community.
Kagoshima National College of Technology (KNCT) is located in Hayato Cho(Hayato Town) near Sakurajima, the famous active volcano to the south, and the picturesque Kirishima mountains to the north. Historically, this area is famous for its fearless warriors, the Kumaso Zoku (Kumaso Tribe) and Hayato Zoku (Hayato Tribe), who both fought against the aggression of the Yamato lmperial Court during the 4th and 5th centuries. In the early 8th century, however, the area came under Yamato rule, and in the 12th century was governed by the Shimazu clan. Shimazu Yoshihisa, brother of Yoshihiro, hero of Sekigahara and the sixteenth Shimazu Lord, is said to have built his castle in this area in preparation for Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s attack on Shimazu territory in the 16th century. Kirishima City is located in the middle of Kagoshima Prefecture. In the north lie the picturesque Kirishima Mountains a famous National Park. In the south there is a fertile plain, adjoining Kinko Bay and overlooking majestic Mt. Sakurajima. The clear, rich Amori River rises in the Kirishima Mountains and flows through the countryside into the sea. The City has also a great number of hot springs from the foot of mountains to the plain.
Source: from NIT Kagoshima College website
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