The Center for Developing General Skills offers a diverse array of educational services aimed at developing "intellectual creativity" in students. Classes teach practical knowledge and skills, and offer support and teaching of general strategies for career development. The Center aims to produce graduates who are accutely self-aware and have the skills required to survive in the non-transparent and unsure aspects of today's society. The Center works with individual students to help them discover and develop their own future career possibilities, and supports them in their efforts to become well-rounded individuals, obtaining valuable skills that will help them realize their career dreams.

Self-development Report

Kyoto Sangyo was the first university in Japan to institute a "Self-development Report" system for all students. These reports are designed to measure aptitude and ability, and serve as an incentive for students to work toward "self-realization". The report is broken down into four sections: "occupational interests," "personality," "study methods," and "abilities."
From the beginning of their college life students are encouraged to keep track of their goals and to keep their individual aims clearly in mind. This in turn leads to a flowering of latent potential in students and constitutes a powerful motivation for them to pursue studies and seek knowledge.

Internal and External Support

The Center also provides, through a cooperative system that involves individual faculties from outside the university, wide-ranging and thorough support for students, including assistance in obtaining qualifications and licenses, guidance in personal development, and help with guidance in career-orientation.

Lifetime Learning

The Center has been responding to a growing interest in lifetime learning by providing opportunities for local residents to study subjects of interest to them on campus. Along with these efforts to repay society with the university's educational expertise and the fruits of its multi-field research, teaching activities continue in the spirit of an "open university."