The School of Informatics aims to foster intellectuals who can become researchers of each eld of informatics, and persons who can create new value, discover and solve problems through the design of fundamental structure within the information society by using informatics. In addition, our goal is to train intellectuals who can manage corporations, government agencies and international organizations from the view point of information and informatics researchers who can play an active role in various fields of sciences. For this reason, we are selecting students who have diverse backgrounds. In order to form a foundation to foster such intellectuals, the following qualifications are required:

• Have sufficient basic academic abilities that are necessary to acquire a wide range of knowledge and skills in informatics
• Have awareness and understanding of the world from the viewpoint of information, and have motivation to advance various sciences by making full use of information technology
• Have the willingness and awareness to solve current and future social problems by using informatics to create value
• Having desire to contribute to humanity through harmonizing with society, and creating information technology which brings value to society