The International Master of Science in Textile Engineering is a 2-year master programme educating the next generation of textile engineers. The first semester you will study at Ghent University in Belgium, the second semester at the Polytechnical University of Valencia in Spain (for the academic year 2022-2023), the third semester you can choose between the University of Borås in Sweden or the Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan. During the fourth semester, you do a thesis at one of the partner universities. So you will study in Europe (and Japan). The professors teaching you come from all over the world.

The technology in the industrial world has achieved remarkable progress recently, but in parallel, becoming multidisciplinary. Research and development companies have increased, which consequently leads to strong social demands for new technological developments as well as highly-specialized engineers who are capable of coping with those challenges. In response to this, we provide advanced education and research opportunities for trying to enrich the Masters's course of engineering research. In this major, by the spirit of our foundation, we promote personal research and development to training richly creative high-level engineers who can deal with fast-evolving technological renovation. We also re-educate society members who are engaged in research development.

Our primary educational focus is on drawing out the inherent talent of each student, and awakening their ability to independently pose questions and work to solve them. For this purpose, the program offers three schools: Fundamental Science and Technology, Integrated Design Engineering, and Science for Open and Environmental Systems. These schools provide a flexible structure so that students can freely cross the boundaries between different fields of research. Our aim is to foster the capacity not only to produce innovative world-class research, but to provide our society with leadership.

The topics of learning and research include the theories and analysis methods concerning the hydrodynamics and the conveyance system in bays, rivers, lakes and reservoirs. Using such theories and analysis methods, studies are conducted for the improvement of issues such as water quality and environmental problems, and the water hazard problems of storm surge, flood, inundation, etc.

The Department of Material Science deals with solid-state physics and materials chemistry and their relationship to basic physics of magnetism, dielectrics and superfluidity, superconductivity and semiconductors, ceramics, high polymers, functional proteins, and various materials. In the electronics materials field, the aim is to develop applications of studied principles as they pertain to certain devices, particularly electronic devices.

We will train researchers who have the ability to acquire knowledge in specialized fields related to engineering, propose new theories and technologies through research and experiments, and respond to international research presentation activities.

As science and technology become ever more sophisticated, and advances in the field take place at an ever-accelerating rate, so research and education in the sciences in graduate schools to generate researchers and highly skilled professionals, especially in Master's programs, become ever more necessary. This is reflected in the current employment market, where more companies are becoming increasingly aggressive in efforts to attract students to post-graduate programs. Some have even made a Master's degree a requirement for employment.