Musashino Art University (MAU), located in Tokyo, marked the 90th anniversary of its foundation in 2019. MAU was founded as a private art school and was officially designated as a university in 1962. Currently, MAU is one of the leading art institutes in Japan, with over 4,500 students and 2,000 correspondence students.

MAU consists of the College of Art and Design (undergraduate), which encompasses ten departments, the College of Creative Thinking for Social Innovation (undergraduate), which encompasses two departments, the Graduate School of Art and Design (MA, PhD), the Graduate School of Creative Thinking for Social Innovation (MA, PhD), and the Correspondence Course (undergraduate).

Since the earliest days of Musashino Art University, our mission has been to train professionals equipped with a good general education and of superlative character for careers in various fields of the formative arts, focusing primarily on the realms of fine arts and design. To achieve this, the University is deeply mindful of the need to arm students with a combination of generalist and specialist skills, and remain faithful to our founding spirit of providing art education that allows students to function with true freedom as human beings, and producing artists of well-rounded erudition.

Website: https://www.musabi.ac.jp/