Campus Life

School Entrance Ceremony

The first meeting of colleagues with whom you will spend the next four years together.

At last, you are starting college life at Fukuyama City University.

After the entrance ceremony, students undergo three days of orientation, a health check and similar activities, after which the first quarter classes start.

In addition to general learning classes, Mondays are full with classes required by both faculties such as Freshman's Seminar, languages and data processing. The campus is buzzing with the energy of the new students carrying around their brand-new textbooks.

Club activities add color and spice to college life.

There are some 40 clubs that are active at Fukuyama City University holding events such as a new student reception where you might find a club to match your interests.

Find something you want to try or that you already enjoy and you will certainly enjoy campus life even more with your new friends and senior students.

Weekends of the second quarter are used to hold open campus events.

Open campus allows a great number of students interested in attending Fukuyama City University to visit the campus. Visitors receive an overall information session given by teachers, attend mock classes, receive consultations regarding their university path. Current university students divide into their clubs to give musical or dance performances, give campus tours, and other activities to give the incoming students a warm welcome.

With the four-quarter system, Fukuyama City University, where emphasis is placed on learning, has a one and a half month summer vacation from the middle of August until the end of September.

Although students are free to spend summer vacation as they like, the short summer vacation enables concentrated learning such that not only can students take general courses such as philosophy and administrative law but they can also receive credits for distinctive classes where they learn rowing or regional traditional dance.

The third quarter starts after the one and a half month summer vacation ends.

Course contents gradually change from introductory subjects to more specialized material. Additionally, guidance is provided based on the contents of and units acquired during the first two quarters, and information sessions and seminars are held about popular career paths such as civil service and teaching.

The university festival is held for two days in November.

Students play the main role in the university festival. The normal academic atmosphere is transformed as the entire university is enveloped in a rich bustle of activity as clubs make presentations and give performances, and the courtyard is used for booths selling food and refreshments. The event draws a great number of students from other universities and local residents as well.