Japan Uni:Kwansei Gakuin University

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Kwansei Gakuin University Graduate School of Business Administration

In 1953, just two years after the KGU School of Business Administration was founded, the Graduate School opened with the establishment of a Masters Course in Business Administration; the Doctoral Course was added in 1961. Over the years, the Graduate School has produced many first-class researchers, educators, and expert practitioners in business administration, management, accounting, business information, and related fields. In 1993, a Management Course (M.B.A.) was established as one track of the Masters program, offering people in mid-career an opportunity for recurrent education.

Diversity of Research Fields
The same diversity that characterizes the Graduate School's curriculum can be seen in the research work undertaken there.
First, in the field of management, the Graduate School is a stronghold of German-style management studies in this country. Pursuing a somewhat different approach from that of American management studies, the Graduate School has unique research projects under way in such areas as organization, management forms, production, labor, finance, and the history of business administration.
In accounting, the Graduate School serves as the nucleus of western Japan's research and educational facilities in the traditional fields of financial accounting and management accounting. At the same time, it is actively engaged in innovative research addressing such concerns as internationalization and the social role of business corporations.
In distribution and marketing, the Graduate School pursues descriptive and historical research in such areas as marketing, logistics, and transportation, as well as groundbreaking studies that utilize mathematical and quantitative analysis or an approach based on the behavioral sciences.
In the field of finance, amid rapid internationalization and advances in information technology, the Graduate School's leading-edge researchers are envisioning the future of the financial sector while ensuring that their work is underpinned by traditional financial theory. Their exploratory work is based on a scholarly understanding of the theory, institutions, policies, and history of finance, insurance, and related sectors.
In the field of business information, research at the Graduate School is centered on scientifically objective economic analyses in such areas as statistical analysis, information systems, and information networks. It is also in the forefront of research work on quantitative analysis and the use of information systems.
In the field of international business, the Graduate School's research is interdisciplinary, as the activities and organization of globalized enterprises are analyzed from multiple viewpoints including those of commerce, law, and communications strategies.
Benefiting from this diversity of interests and approaches, researchers at the Graduate School join in collaborative work that may bring novel insights to existing fields, or even create entirely new interdisciplinary areas of study. Examples of cross-fertilization include joint research in the fields of accounting and management statistics, or the course in behavioral science research methods which is held jointly for students of business administration and management statistics together with the Graduate Schools of Humanities and Sociology. Further, with the creation of the Management Course (M.B.A.), the Graduate School has added a new aspect to its mission: to address the research and educational challenges posed by contemporary economic and social problems, or by problems facing individual enterprises. This is also expected to act as a renewed stimulus to existing areas of research.
In the current academic year, a new curriculum has been introduced in response to these emerging issues.

CPA and Tax Accountant Qualifications
The education provided by the Graduate School of Business Administration is characterized by its dual nature: it not only prepares scholars for traditional research and teaching work, but also trains practitioners with a high level of professional expertise. In particular, the Masters Course provides the kind of highly specialized education required by the business professions. Since its inception, some 620 Masters degrees have been granted, almost half of which are held by specialized professionals such as certified public accountants, tax accountants, and officers of the national tax administration. Since the Doctoral course was established, 65 candidates have completed the coursework and have taken up research and teaching posts at universities and research institutes around the country, earning a high reputation in the academic world. The Graduate School's strong commitment to professional development of researchers and educators is clearly indicated by its record of 33 Doctorates of Business Administration granted to date, including external candidates. In addition, a system of academic examinations and research supervision for the Doctoral course was systematized in 1991 and is being actively implemented.

Establishment of the Management Course (M.B.A.)
The Management Course (M.B.A.), established in 1993, is another distinctive feature of the program offered by the Graduate School of Business Administration. Its objective is to provide working businesspeople with ready access not only to the specialized knowledge and skills that their careers demand, but also to recurrent education where they can acquire the thinking skills and the broad perspective needed by those who form the nucleus of future management. The course, developed by reflecting on the drawbacks of both the traditional Masters program and the American-style MBA, adopts a new approach which makes it possible to obtain an MBA while continuing to work.
Thus, the Graduate School of Business Administration offers opportunities for career enhancement tailored to the individual's career plan. It offers researchers the theoretical and methodological basis necessary for creative and innovative work; it offers practitioners a high level of specialized expertise and the thinking skills and breadth of vision needed to play a part in the nucleus of future management. What our graduate students make of these opportunities is determined by their individual initiative and enthusiasm.
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Mba course
Enhancing a Business Career

In 1993, the KGU Graduate School of Business Administration launched a new degree program, the Management Course (M.B.A.), designed for a different purpose from that of the existing Masters course. It provides advanced management education for people already in the forefront of professional life. Those who complete the program are awarded a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree.

Until now, few institutions in Japan have provided advanced management education similar to the well-known M.B.A. degree offered by U.S. graduate schools of business. An M.B.A. is widely considered essential to secure a corporate middle management position, and many Japanese students go to the United States to obtain one. Recently, however, the reputation of American M.B.A. programs is reportedly in decline, due to a rapid increase in the number of students enrolling directly after obtaining a Bachelor's degree, the large number of degrees granted, and an excessive tendency toward a quantitative and analytic approach.

Recognizing the existence of problems both in the American-style M.B.A. and in the graduate education traditionally available in Japan, we have designed our Management Course as an opportunity for recurrent education, where businessmen and women in mid-career can develop a higher level of expertise and insight than they acquired as undergraduates. The course is a response to a social demand-the need of working professionals for access to knowledge and skills that are essential to their careers.

It is not a place to learn routine work procedures. Not only do these vary among different industries and companies, but as economic and social conditions change, the procedures change too rapidly to form the substance of graduate school education. It is more important that young corporate managers add to their professional knowledge and skills the ability to distinguish long-term trends from short-term fluctuations and to find solutions to management problems by viewing them from a perspective that transcends daily routine. What makes this program distinctive is the opportunity that it provides to develop the thinking skills and the breadth of vision needed to play a part in the nucleus of future management.

Kwansei Gakuin's Management Course (M.B.A.) offers businessmen and women an unprecedented opportunity for recurrent education at the graduate level. I hope you will take full advantage of this opportunity to enhance your own career.

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Originally Posted by kelsowar

I like this university! This place has the best interactive learning!

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