 In 1996, the university awarded an honorary doctorate to Fidel Castro in recognition of his efforts to establish exemplary health care and education systems for his nation's people.In 2008, an honorary doctorate was awarded to a professor at Moscow State University, Mihail Sokolov, a medical robotics scientist.Soka University shares its campus in Hachiōji, Tokyo, with , an affiliated private junior college that was founded on April 2, 1985.