Cultivating individuals who will pioneer a new field of commercial science and pursue, create, and pass down knowledge
The Graduate School of Commerce is dedicated to the pursuit and creation of knowledge and aims to cultivate researchers who will pass down that knowledge to the next generation. In this aim of cultivating researchers and highly specialized professionals who will work at the forefront of their fields in the future, the Graduate School of Commerce differs from Meiji University’s business-related professional graduate schools. However, our graduates have gone on to expand their field of work, not only at research institutions, but throughout diverse areas of society, upholding their unique perspectives nurtured through research. This can be attributed to the school’s adherence to a one-course-one-major structure, a unique system design which cultivates flexible and specialized thinking by positioning subjects into eight groupings: economics, commerce, management, accounting, finance and securities, insurance, transportation, and trade. The Graduate School of Commerce’s uniqueness lies in how it faces the multi-faceted business world, based on the wide-ranged knowledge and flexible thinking rooted in the organic links between these groupings.
Those of you who pursue the research of commercial science are from diverse career backgrounds. Therefore, at the Graduate School of Commerce, aside from the normal entrance exam and in-school admissions system for our undergraduates, we also have a special entrance exam system for those already in the working world, as well as an entrance exam system for seniors, targeting retirees aged sixty and older, thus actively responding to the diverse needs of learning. As a recent trend, many international students have been applying to our graduate school, and after enrolling, they commit themselves to research day and night; we have also set up a special entrance exam system, similar to that for working members of society in order to promote admission of such international students who are passionate about their research. We are also improving our Japanese instruction system for these international students after they are admitted.
In regard to advancement into our graduate school, there may be economic concerns such as tuition fees, but Meiji University boasts an unparalleled economic assistance system. In addition to scholarship grants and loans, we also have programs for teaching and research assistants, as well as the possibility to be appointed as an assistant, in close cooperation with the School of Commerce. All of these are paid positions and therefore, time that could be better spent in research is not wasted. These programs allow students to be directly involved in education, while concentrating on their studies.
The Graduate School of Commerce, founded in 1952, bases itself in the School of Commerce, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2004 as a pioneer of commercial science. During this time, it was designated as part of the Renault Foundation’s international MBA program in Paris in 2002, targeting students from top level graduate schools in Japan, to which our graduate school students have been sent. Additionally, we have signed credit transfer agreements with many research and educational institutions in and outside Japan, such as the Japan-France joint doctoral exchange program, working to further enrich our students’ overseas study programs and expanding academic exchange.
Research is often likened to brushing one’s teeth every day. Our fifty some faculty members will instruct and support your research activities so that you can pursue your research in a relaxed and natural manner. We hope you enter into our graduate school with aim of pursuing, creating, and passing down knowledge, and produce solid research results in an enriched research environment.
Dean, Graduate School of Commerce
Doctor of Commerce
CHIBA, Osami
