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Graduate School of Engineering

The Graduate School of Engineering offers degree programs aimed at cultivating engineering professionals of deep learning and with a high level of expert knowledge, and specialists capable of undertaking independent research.

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About the Graduate School of Engineering

The five courses of the Graduate School of Engineering--Information and Computer Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Chemistry, and Science of Environment and Mathematical Modeling--each have master’s and doctoral programs. The focus of the master’s programs is to develop students capable of entering a professional occupation that in each discipline demands deeper learning and a high level of expert knowledge, while in the doctoral programs the focus is on developing students capable of undertaking independent research. Since the 2006 academic year, through a linkage with the Graduate School of Business, the Graduate School of Engineering MOT Program has been offered. Following completion of the Graduate School of Engineering program, students are able in one year to gain an MOT qualification, meaning in a three-year period they are able to earn two degrees.

Entry to the programs is available through general entrance examination, as well as in a recommendation system for graduating undergraduates with stellar academic records, and in an early admissions program for undergraduates completing their third year of enrollment in a Faculty of Engineering degree program. A special entrance examination has also been introduced for working individuals, which provides an opportunity for corporate employees to develop further high level knowledge and skills, with a view to engendering significant stimulation through interaction between graduate students with corporate experience and graduate students who have advanced from undergraduate level. Graduate students admitted to the program via these multiple entry qualification routes have a full research life, working under the direction of academic staff with a track record of excellence in research, using top level research facilities, and participating in research undertaken as part of projects initiated by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), such as: the Private University High-Tech Research Center Project, the Academic Frontiers Promotion Program, the Knowledge Cluster Initiative, and Collaboration of Regional Entities for the Advancement of Technological Excellence, and the Center for Infrastructure Research. Outcomes obtained in the Graduate School of Engineering are actively presented in international and domestic symposia, to high acclaim.

Active Links with Society

In the course of interaction with mainstream society, the Graduate School actively undertakes research commissioned by companies and engages in collaborative research, and has introduced the Cooperative Graduate School System in which students receive direct instruction from researchers affiliated with companies and public research institutes. Under this system, students are able to access superior research facilities otherwise difficult for a university to make available, to progress research under the direction of corporate and other researchers, and to experience how their own research can be useful to mainstream society and how research is commercialized.

The School is also proactive about internationalization, and in addition to international cooperation at University level with overseas universities, has implemented an exchange student program with overseas universities renowned in the science and technology field to enable students to acquire a broader scope of knowledge through overseas student experience, including ESPCI in France, which has graduated many Nobel Prize winners. The School offers a double degree program in which students enrolled in Doshisha are able to gain a master’s or a doctoral degree from both Doshisha and any of the five schools of the French Grandes écoles - L’École Centrale de Lille, Lyon, Nantes and Marseille and L’École Centrale Paris.

In these ways, and in the context of proactive interaction with society and efforts to advance internationalization, the Doshisha Graduate School of Engineering strives to provide extensive scholarships and a high quality education and research environment enabling students to use leading-edge research facilities and receive instruction from researchers with a track record of excellence.