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This paper tries to clarify the relevance between institutionalizing idea and sociological factors through the analyses in institutionalizing process of the new Vocational University which was decided to construct in May 2017. Challenge was the way of existence for total higher education system in Japan. Discussions on the profile of new work force, possibility to train new work force in existing university or colleges, worth for conferment of academic degree and international communality of students’ outputs etc. were consistently exchanged between existing university-junior college side and vocational education side. At the same time, there were some internal differences among specialists concerned in the vocational education and some demarcation conflicts between two departments in Ministry of Education. To make discussions convergent, the roles of economic organizations, specialists concerned in industrial university and technical college were so significant.