Ube Frontier College was founded in 1960 with one department, the Home Economics Department. Its roots, however, go back to 1903―when Masako Kagawa, who had insight into the necessity of female education, founded a high school. The high school grew into a college after the Second World War meeting demands for higher education in the pre-war society. Now the College has two departments: Nursery Education Department and Food and Nutrition Department.
The College has its library in which current copies of an English language newspaper and several magazines also written in English are always available as well as countless resources for studying Japanese. It also has two gymnasiums in which physical education classes are held and students enjoy their extracurricular sports activities. There are a college store and a dining room with inexpensive meals at lunchtime. Students engage not only in sports activities but also in cultural ones such as tea ceremonies, flower arrangement, calligraphy and painting. Adjacent to the College are a kindergarten, a junior high school and a senior high school which are attached or related to Ube Frontier University, which is its sister school.
The emphasis at the College is on close personal interaction with the teaching staff. The student-centered policy of this college is kept in mind to encourage the personal development through the rigors of academic achievement.
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Bust of SHINZO Setsuzo,
Founder of Ube College
College courtyard
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