The year 2000 represents a milestone in the history of Nanzan University and saw the culmination of several years of working to establish a viable platform for the University in the twenty-first century. The opening of two new faculties on a new campus outside the city in April 2000 accompanied major reorganization and restructuring of the faculties and departments on the existing Nagoya campus. Further reorganization at the beginning of the 2003 academic year has seen the addition of two new centers of research at the University's Nagoya campus, which now hosts five faculties, two research institutes, four research centers, five area studies centers, and Museum of Anthropology, while the new campus on the outskirts of Nagoya at Seto hosts the two newly established faculties, the Faculty of Policy Studies and the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences and Information Engineering. To facilitate ease of access between the campuses, the University operates a free shuttle bus service.

The changes that accompanied the restructuring and reorganization of Nanzan's faculties and departments in the year 2000 and that saw the creation of the new campus at Seto represent only the first phase in the creation of our “new” Nanzan. The second phase of restructuring revolves around the reorganization of Nanzan's Graduate School from the beginning of the 2004–2005 academic year. Construction work on both campuses in preparation for the April 2004 opening of the new graduate schools was completed in time, and both campuses now boast new purpose-built buildings for the Nanzan School of Law on the Nagoya campus and the Graduate School of Policy Studies and the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences and Information Engineering at Seto.

Nagoya Campus

 

Seto Campus