This is a professional training college of design located in Umeda, Osaka, for students who want to become professionals in the industry.

●Address

6-25-23 Fukushima, Fukushima-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka
●Contact

Tel: 06-6452-1411 / FAX: 06-6452-1399
●Access

Approx. 10 minutes walk from JR Osaka Station and Umeda Station of the Hankyu/ Hanshin/Subway line.
●Website

    http://www.sozosha.ac.jp/
●E-mail address

  info@sozosha.ac.jp

From graphic arts, illustration, web design, display design to product design, a wide variety of division is offered for students. Sozosha College of Design receives several international students each year. Students from China, Korea, Taiwan and Thailand have joined the school to study design from the basics.

Classes are mainly given in a practical training style to obtain digital skills as well as analog skills such as abilities to draw, communicate and creativity. With a lower student-to-teacher ratio, students can study required skills in depth from professional designers who are active in the industry.

The school provides opportunities for students to go beyond classrooms and divisions and make an appearance into the world by offering product planning in collaboration with corporations.
In addition, the school introduced "internship program" as a part of employment support to provide opportunities to work in design companies of their choice.

Surrounded by skyscraping buildings, highly-functional and sophisticated architectures, fashionista on the street and shopping malls decorated with dazzling illuminations at night, Umeda offers the most suitable environment to learn design.
In addition, Umeda is home to many cultural facilities such as libraries and galleries, as well as media companies such as newspaper publishers, broadcasting stations and advertising agencies, which makes Umeda the center of culture, art and information in Osaka.

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・Applicants should have graduated, or are expected to graduate, from high school.
* Those who have completed equivalent with 12 years or more of formal education in foreign countries and those who are qualified for high school diploma required by the School Education Act.
* Provided that applicants have a certain level of Japanese language abilities to attend classes given in Japanese.
<Equivalent with Level N1 or N2 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test>

Admission with a recommendation letter, general admission and AO admission.
October 2010 through March 2011
* Screening of applicants begins in March 2011 and continues until positions are filled for each division.

April 2011

Application documents and essay (interviews may be given upon necessity)

Tuition and fees for the first year (for daytime students): 1,080,000 yen
* Includes entrance fee, tuition and other miscellaneous fees.
* The amount equivalent to the entrance fee will be exempt with the AO scholarship program.
* Sozosha College of Design also offers an independent scholarship system for privately funded international students.