Evaluation of Junior Colleges by Graduates in Technology and Other Majors by Means of a Survey of Their Junior Colleges

In order for junior colleges in Japan to survive, timely and appropriate measures for reforming higher education must be implemented. Therefore, in search of some key factors to improving or reforming our colleges successfully, we took a survey of alumni from 14 junior colleges in Japan by sending 12,116 of them questionnaires on how they have accepted and/or evaluated their educations at their Alma Maters, their jobs and lives after graduation. This paper describes several interesting results we have obtained by analyzing the answers from 2,835 alumni to the questionnaires. That is to say, we have found several common and individual trends and/or features in the responses from graduates in technology and other majors. From these responses, we have tried to search for some hints to a better education at junior colleges.