PhD Program

The Standard Curriculum Period: 3 years
※This does not guarantee your completion of Ph.D. program in 3 years.

Course Requirements: Students are required to complete “Introduction to Academic and Research Integrity ​(For Humanities and Social Science)” by the end of their first year of the Ph.D. program

Academic Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in International Studies

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Please check the manual for how to submit the documents and other details.

When submitting the documents, please upload a PDF file of the email (with the email address and date of receipt of the email from your supervisor ) from your supervisor authorizing you to submit the documents using the designated form.
★PhD documents manual for students

★Submission Link

Supervisors→Office

Students →Office

Please refer to the followings for details on how to submit.

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Submission Form

*When you complete submission, you will receive an automatic reply, but the GSAPS Office will contact you after confirming each document. Please check your contact email address.
*Please contact the Office ([email protected]) in advance before your submission.

*Documents that require submission of originals must be submitted by the time of final submission.

(Data submission is acceptable for the time of first submission.)

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Formats necessary for Oral Thesis Defense

Taking “Research Ethics” is one of the requirements for submittion of doctoral thesis. Please read here carefully and follow the appropreate method.

For current students

While you are enrolled, it is required to register for the regular course “Introduction to Academic and Research Integrity ​(For Humanities and Social Science)“offered by the Global Education Center(GEC) and obtain the credits. If you already completed the course “Research Ethics/Introduction to Research Ethics (On-demand)”  by AY 2021 and earned its credits, you don’t need to take “Introduction to Academic and Research Integrity ​(For Humanities and Social Science)“. This course will be automatically registered until the credit is granted. If you fail this course, please be sure to check the course registration system on the day the course registration results are announced to confirm that the course has been registered. Please refer to here for information on how to check the registration results.

For more detailed information on the course, please also refer to the dedicated website.

Students who begin their studies in 2024 or later are required to complete the course before submitting their research plans.

Below is the information on certificates that can be issued for those who completed/withdrew the PhD program.

For those who completed

• Certificate of completion（certifies completion of research supervision, pass of dissertation, and degree conferral）
• Certificate of degree conferral（with Waseda diploma number/MEXT registration number）
• Transcript of academic record
• Transcript of academic record and certificate of completion(For those obtained degree while enrolled)
  *The sample is available in the Office.

For those who withdrew after completing the PhD program requirements apart from dissertation

• Certificate of withdrawal（Certifies that the person completed the doctoral requirements except for the submission of the dissertation）
• Transcript of academic record

For those who withdrew

• Certificate of withdrawal
• Transcript of academic record

When to be obtained

For those obtained degree while enrolled

March completion⇒On and after 15 March
September completion⇒On and after 15 September

For those who withdrew after completing the PhD program requirements apart from dissertation

March completion⇒after the committee meeting in Feb *On and after 15 March for Certificate of degree conferral
September completion⇒after the committee meeting in July * On and after 15 September for Certificate of degree conferral
※Ask the Office for the specific date in the given year.

Other certificates

Certificate available

• Certificate of dissertation acceptance（after committee approval on submission）
  It takes a while to issue. Please send an email to “[email protected]” in advance.

For more details on certificates, please check the following link.

You can check the information by following procedures below.
*Only available for GSAPS regular students.

1.Login to MyWaseda
2. Click 「Classes」tab
3.From the service menu on the right bar→「アジア太平洋研究科情報」→「学生向けコンテンツ/For students」→
「アジア太平洋研究科学生　中間評価会開催日程/The Interim Evaluation Schedule of GSAPS students」or「アジア太平洋研究科学生　口述試験開催日程/The Oral Thesis Defense Schedule of GSAPS students」

◆ Theses registered with Waseda University Repository
Theses which are given permission from the author to be published after academic year 2002 can be searched and fully viewed on WINE and the Waseda University Repository.
（It usually takes two to three months after degree conferment (March/September) to register a thesis with Waseda University Repository.）

◆ Theses not registered with Waseda University Repository
・Theses not registered with Waseda University Repository can be searched using the WINE system.
　To learn how to search, click here.
・To access non-registered theses, you must file the appropriate request with the Central Library.

◆Guide to finding doctoral dissertations submitted to universities in Japan, including Waseda, and overseas.
https://waseda-jp.libguides.com/research-navi/find_theses/en