It is a four-year university offering courses across multiple faculties, with an annual enrollment of about 2,500 students.

The university's main campus is in the northeast part of Kobe, near Hankyu Rokko station, at the foot of Mount Rokkō.

The university features outdoor tennis courts and a historic chapel equipped with a pipe organ imported from France in 1983.

A separate building (to the south, near JR's Rokkōmichi Station), known in English as the Japan Study Center and in Japanese as the Conference Center (会館; kaikan), hosts meetings, foreign students, and a small English-language library on separate floors.

The Graduate school offers research degree courses, leading to the qualification of doctorate, in the areas of language and linguistics, and psychology.