Gunma University

Since that time, through its efforts to foster promising human resources, search for truth and peace, and investigate a wide range of profound scientific principles and their practical applications through research, the university has strived to fulfill its social mandate as a representative university of the Northern Kanto region in order to contribute to world prosperity and human welfare. The latter half of the 20th century was an era that has come to be symbolized by the rapid progress of scientific technology and economic prosperity. At the same time, it had also become an age forced to deal with the actualization on a global scale of a number of complex issues deeply concerned with the very existence of mankind and the core elements of prosperity. Herein, the university has continued to respond sincerely to the demands of the times through educational and research activities in the individual academic disciplines of education, medicine, engineering and social information studies. As a result, from a multifaceted and comprehensive perspective, and as a leader in the a new era of education and research in the 21st century, Gunma University hereby declares the following as the fundamental principles of its mission in order to respond to a diversified range of needs on a global scale. Basic Philosophy