Educational guidance system
Master's Program Doctoral Program Degree requirements and conferral of degrees
Master's Program
- In specialized education, we offer Basic Lectures that help students to thoroughly understand basic concepts followed by Intermediate Lectures that allow students to advance to specialized knowledge.
- For students entering our graduate schools with undergraduate majors in fields outside of our areas of specialization, we offer lectures that allow students to master preliminary knowledge that prepares them for advanced studies.
- In order to foster broad perspectives and wisdom, we offer distinctive subjects such as World Economy and International Patent Laws that are common to all majors.
- We offer systematic English education at each level of proficiency focusing on skill development for making research presentations and proposals in English.
- Specialized subject lectures give students a total of 16 hours of instruction, with classes scheduled twice weekly mainly in the morning, over a period of 8 weeks.
- Office Hours scheduled in the afternoon promote and support learning by allowing students the opportunity to review content learned in seminars and classes attended during the morning hours as well as the chance to pursue individual research.
- Term-end written examinations as well as required papers give students the opportunity to demonstrate their mastery of the subjects they have studied.
- Common subjects are given in the form of intensive lectures.
In addition, after term-end examinations, students are asked to evaluate each class.
Our program helps students gain a wide range of specialized knowledge
- by offering specialized subjects (Introductory, Basic, and Intermediate Lectures) classified into multiple fields to avoid placing a disproportionate emphasis on specific fields
- by requiring students to pursue studies in sub themes outside their major areas in addition to main themes
- by adopting a guidance system that assigns a team of three advisers to each student
- Students are temporarily assigned upon enrollment to a laboratory where they immediately become engaged in a detailed study of lecture content.
- Between July and September, students are assigned to permanent laboratories based on discussions that take place in late June.
- Students are required to submit research plans, which are subject to review for approval, in order to be formally entitled to begin their main theme study.
- Students are required to submit their master's thesis in February of the 2nd year. A review of the thesis after presentation by students determines whether students pass or fail.
Doctoral Program
Educational and research guidance methods
We offer coursework (subjects of Advanced Lectures) for each specialty in the doctoral program which covers multiple fields, and obligate students to select main and sub themes for their research.
This method equips students with a wide range of specialized knowledge, and high-level and international perspectives, and cultivates creative human resources capable of producing outstanding research results in advanced science and technology.
Degree requirements and conferral of degrees
A. Master's Program
The requirements for a master's degree are, in principle, enrollment in a master's program for a period of two or more years, 30 or more credits in a combination of Specialized and Common Subjects, Advanced Courses and Training, required research guidance, a master's thesis review, and an examination.
Students who have achieved outstanding research results may qualify to shorten the two-year study period to one year.
The following degrees are conferred on students who have completed the master's program offered by each graduate school.
| School of Knowledge Science | Master's program | Master' s degree (Knowledge Science) |
| School of Information Science | Master's program | Master's degree (Information Science) |
| School of Materials Science | Master's program | Master's degree (Materials Science) |
B. Doctoral Program
The requirements for the doctoral degree are, in principle, enrollment in a doctoral program for a period of three or more years, accumulation of the designated number of credits, required research guidance, doctoral dissertation review, and an examination.
Students who have achieved outstanding research results may qualify to shorten the three-year study period to one or two years.
The following degrees are conferred on students who have completed the doctoral program offered by each graduate school.
| School of Knowledge Science | Doctoral Program | Doctoral degree (Knowledge Science) |
| School of Information Science | Doctoral Program | Doctoral degree (Information Science) |
| School of Materials Science | Doctoral Program | Doctoral degree (Materials Science) |
