Waseda Business School
(Graduate School of Business and Finance)

There are many ways to get involved and explore your interests at Waseda Business School. In the sections below, you can learn more about our students, the events and traditions they enjoy, and where and how they live in Tokyo.

Information about housing and general daily life issues and a comprehensive guide to obtaining a student visa can be found on the Center for International Education website.

Briefly, Tokyo is a fun, clean, safe, trendy, world-class megacity with more three-star Michelin restaurants than Paris and various specialty bars that offer the finest microbrews, sake and wine. The quality of life in Tokyo is extremely high and the fact that Japanese people have some of the highest life expectancies in the world is not a surprise.

Tokyo produces cultural artifacts like anime and manga that are popular around the world. But, there is also an ethos here, captured in Sophia Coppola’s movie Lost in Translation, that has to be experienced to be understood.

Tokyo has an amazing public transportation system. So you can easily access museums, art galleries, concerts and sporting events, sumo wrestling, and various cultural festivals. Two international airports in Tokyo (Haneda and Narita) make it possible to easily travel throughout Asia and beyond.

Tokyo is also the business and political center of the world’s third largest economy and a hub that connects to the rest of Asia. It is where the headquarters are located for most Fortune 500 Japanese firms and most Japanese subsidiaries of Fortune 500 multinational firms. In this sense, Tokyo itself is like a living laboratory for people with a keen interest in business. So it is said that Tokyo is the perfect setting for students from around the world who want to earn an MBA in Asia. Best of all, even students who cannot speak Japanese report that they are able to enjoy their life in Tokyo very much.

WBS students engage not only in academic study but also in extracurricular activities. Students frequently organize events and short group trips in order to make the most of their limited free time.

Some of the events that Waseda students enjoy include:

• Onsen (Hot Springs) Tour
• Ski Trip to Snow Country (Yukiguni)
• Hanami Picnics (Picnic under Cherry Blossoms in full bloom)
• Visit to Kyoto to see the Autumn Leaves
• Visit to Lake Yamanaka
• Visit to O-Daiba Statue of Liberty and Life-Sized Gundam Robot
• Visit to Akihabara Electric Town

Accommodations

Housings we offer are divided into two categories by its management body;

1. Waseda University Student Dormitories (Owned and managed directly by Waseda University)
2. Waseda University Affiliated Dormitories (Run by private companies in relations with the University)

We are afraid that Waseda University Students Dormitories give its priority to undergraduate students, and graduate students have very little chance to secure a room.

On the other hand, WBS students certainly have a chance to secure a room at Waseda University Affiliated Dormitories.

For further housing information, please kindly refer to the website below.

For Waseda University dorms and total support for housing: Residence Life Center, Waseda University

URL:https://www.waseda.jp/inst/rlc/en/ (English)
TEL: +81-3-3203-2634

For the Waseda University Affiliated Dormitories:

1. Kyoritsu Maintenance Co., Ltd
URL: http://wasedalife.com/ (Mainly Japanese)
TEL: +81-3-5295-7889

2. Waseda University Property Management Corp.
URL: http://www.waseda-pm.com/ (Japanese Only)
TEL: +81-3-3208-7001

Lastly, most universities in Tokyo don’t have on-campus housing because of the limited space in the metropolitan area. This may be a great difference in university housing situation in your country, but we appreciate your understanding.

If you have any further questions regarding housing, you are welcome to contact the center below.
Residence Life Center: [email protected]

Living Expenses

In order to live in Tokyo as an international student and study at Waseda Business School, expenses other than tuition fees will be incurred. These include rent, electricity, transportation, food, books, incidental travel and other such expenses. We have estimated the minimum living expense for one year to be 1,000,000 – 1,200,000 JPY. However, actual expenses will vary for each individual.