Graduate School of CommerceWaseda University

The cultivation of real “researchers” and “high level professionals” who will be successful in the global age

The Waseda University Graduate School of Commerce was established in 1951 and is one of the leading graduate schools of commerce in Japan. Over roughly 60 years since its founding, this graduate school has produced a great number of talented human resources active in both Japan and overseas in academic areas and the business world. In addition to the conventional Masters’ and Doctoral Programs, the graduate school established a Professional Degree in 2007 and provides a wide variety of high quality programs as a commerce-related graduate school.
The aim of this graduate school is to give students high level knowledge and skills in all areas related to business and to cultivate human resources to become leaders, equipped with broad vision and correct judgment skills as well as a global perspective. In the world of business, distances are contracting and things are becoming more sophisticated due to the rapid diffusion of information technology. It has become difficult to understand modern society using traditional ways of looking at things and to consider that way of being. Various realms of society are calling out for human resources who can not only consider structure, function and strategy, but who also have general scholarly attainment and creative abilities, and who can use concepts, perspectives, specialist knowledge and skills to discover solutions.
At this Graduate School, we aim to contribute broadly to society by providing educational programs in response to diverse needs and developing human resources equipped with both breadth and depth in their ways of looking at things.

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