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Graduate School of Economics

Our goal is to produce human resources with specialized knowledge, analytical powers, and the ability to make contributions to the betterment of humankind.

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About the Graduate School of Economics

The Graduate School of Economics implemented a new curriculum in the 2004 academic year. In brief, the goal is to equip our students with analytical and applied skills supported by the professional expertise to adapt effectively with globalization through the 21st century and the trend toward an increasingly information-intensive society. In this age of acceleration and uncertainty, it is imperative that society have human resources that are capable of acting in the interest of humankind with careful judgment and a strong command of advanced systems of knowledge.

The writings of the late P.F. Drucker still have an enormous influence on the business world. In his book, Managing in the Next Society (Japanese translation published by Diamond, 2002), Drucker wrote that the next society would be a knowledge-based society with knowledge the prime resource and knowledge workers the core of the workforce. Among the salient features of that society will be borderlessness, because knowledge flows more readily than capital and everyone will have the freedom of upward mobility because they have access to opportunities for education. Accordingly, Drucker predicted that this will be a highly competitive society for individuals and organizations alike. Suffice it to say that this society has already arrived.

Guaranteeing a minimum level of scholastic ability and expanding the scale and diversity of liberal arts education have been the principal goals of undergraduate education reform to date. Now that these goals have been largely met, the university system has come face to face with demands and expectations of an altogether different dimension. In effect, the general public, the corporate sector, and even students themselves have demonstrated a pronounced appetite for higher levels of specialized knowledge. University science and engineering schools were the first to experience and strive to accommodate the early signs of this desire. Now though, the same trend has become evident even among schools in the social sciences and humanities. To satisfy the expectations driving that trend, the Graduate School of Economics has revamped its own curriculum and implemented systemic reforms.

Sponsorship System

The Faculty and Graduate School of Economics has established a student sponsorship framework with the aim of fostering an integrated track to graduate school education. This is a new course framework for economics majors that want to pursue higher levels of specialized knowledge in graduate school. Students for sponsorship are selected from enrolled undergraduate economics-degree students that apply in the fall term of their third year. These students may enroll in graduate-level courses while still in their fourth undergraduate year. Those that complete their undergraduate study and continue to graduate school will be able to complete the master's program in one year.

How are sponsored students selected? Eligibility for sponsorship is limited to those who have satisfied the following requirements at the time of application.

1. Have completed at least five semesters of undergraduate economics degree coursework at Doshisha University. (In principle, the sponsorship program targets third-year students who have been enrolled in a Faculty of Economics undergraduate degree program from their first year.)
2. Desire to enroll in the Doshisha Graduate School of Economics.
3. Rank in the top 20 percent under the GPA system in major-specific coursework through to the spring semester of the third year.
4. Be expected to satisfy the credit total required for graduation upon completion of the fall term of the third year.

* Applications will be accepted from a maximum of 30 students. Qualifying applicants will be selected based on an examination of their stated reasons for seeking sponsorship.
The goal is to have sponsored students participate in small classes offering more advanced levels of discussion while remaining enrolled in their undergraduate programs and find inspiration through exposure to controversial topics in advanced subjects as well as the latest trends in economic theory.

Doctoral Program Reforms

Faculty Research (2009)