International Students

The College of Tourism has been the most proactive of all the colleges at Rikkyo University in accepting international students from overseas.
Graduates from the College of Tourism are active both within their home countries and within Japan.
Post-graduation career paths are wide open including graduates who have advanced on to graduate school and become university teachers in their home countries, and those who have gone on to the Graduate School of Business Administration (business school) in aiming to be entrepreneurs.
Rikkyo’s reputation for tourism education is well known overseas, and the school has come to attract outstanding students primary from East Asia.
Exchange with international students provides intellectual stimuli and opportunities for making lifelong friends with the Japanese students and fosters the their international sensibilities required in the field study.

Courteous Instruction for International Students

The College of Tourism does not just have large numbers of international students.
It also has an established reputation for courteous instruction. In the first year, teaching faculty who has experiences instructing international students supervise them as academic advisors and provide individual instruction. Such support is meant to be of enormous assistance to those international students who are beginning a new life in Japan. In the upper level classes, courses that provide instruction to mainly international students are offered as regular curriculum courses.
Furthermore, teaching assistants in graduate schools from overseas provide study support for Introduction to Tourism, which is the most basic specialized course.