Formerly the Higher Normal School founded in 1903, the School of Education was established in 1949 to become the first school of education at a Japanese private university. The Higher Normal School sent thousands of young people into the Japanese educational world during the almost 50 years of its existence, contributing greatly to university and secondary education, and education outside the formal school system.

The aim of the present School of Education is threefold: first, maintaining the tradition handed down from the Higher Normal School, it aims to train teachers for junior and senior high schools and specialists for institutions of social education; secondly, it aims to prepare students for careers in fields other than education to which an expertise in humanities, science and social sciences may be applied; thirdly, it aims to prepare students for post-graduate studies. Its students are organized into five departments ? the Departments of Education, Japanese Language and Literature, English Language and Literature, Social Sciences, and Science; the School of Education is not only an institution for teacher training but also one for comprehensive education in a wide range of disciplines.

Departments	Degrees
Department of Education	B.A. in Education or B.A. in Psychology
Department of Japanese Language and Literature Department of English Language and Literature	B.A. in Literature
Department of Social Studies	B.A. in Geography, B.A. in History or B.A. in Social Sciences
Department of Science Department of Mathematics	B. Science
Department of Cultural Sciences	B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies