School of Advanced Science and Engineering (Departments)

※For all Majors in the School of Advanced Science and Engineering, the admission for September 2022 enrollment was the last one, and we discontinue the admission from 2023 admission onwards.

In line with Waseda University’s founding principles “the preservation of the independence of scholarship,” “the promotion of the practical application of scholarship,” and the “fostering of good citizens,” ASE invites a broad range of individuals from Japan and overseas who have a solid grounding in basic scholarship, a powerful intellectual curiosity, an enterprising spirit, and a strong motivation to study. ASE strives to select applicants who:

1. Are motivated to study natural science and related fields in English
2. Have sufficient command of English to study in that language or the potential to do so
3. Have sufficient logical thinking skills and can engage in the study of applying basic scholarship
4. Have the motivation to apply a general grounding in natural sciences and contribute to the international community
5. Have international perspectives or the flexibility to acquire international perspectives
6. Have sufficient grounding in basic scholarship at a high school (or equivalent thereof)

ASE provides a practice-oriented curriculum in which students gain the necessary grounding in science and engineering, including the applications thereof, by studying subjects such as physics, chemistry, bioscience, information science, and mathematics. In their major (Physics, Chemistry, or Bioscience), students master the fundamentals of the disciplines pertaining to said major. ASE also provides a Minor in Electronics and Electrical Engineering, in which students study the fundamentals of the engineering applications relevant to their major.

Utilizing Waseda University’s synthetic and creative approach, ASE facilitates diverse exchanges in scholarship, culture, language, and values in the university-wide educational environment and the students’ lifestyle, and thereby fosters global human resources who can contribute proactively to the global community.

English-based programs are offered at Departments with ◯ in the box of International Program as shown in the chart below.

Under its educational principle of the “Independence of Scholarship,” Waseda University would like to welcome many students, from both Japan and abroad, who have reached a certain level of basic academic skills and have a great deal of intellectual curiosity, that are filled with the Waseda spirit of enterprise and are highly motivated for learning.

In the master’s program, students are required to have basic abilities in pure and applied physics, chemistry and biochemistry, applied chemistry, life science and medical bioscience, electrical engineering and bioscience, integrative bioscience and biomedical engineering, nanoscience and nanoengineering, advanced biomedical sciences, advanced health science, nuclear energy, as well as basic knowledge to learn in depth and from a broad perspective.

In the doctoral course, students are required to have the abilities necessary to obtain a master’s degree as described above, and to have a high level of expertise, experience, theory, and motivation to play an active role as a leader in a wide range of fields while challenging their own potential in pure and applied physics, chemistry and biochemistry, applied chemistry, life science and medical bioscience, electrical engineering and bioscience, integrative bioscience and biomedical engineering,  nanoscience and nanoengineering, advanced biomedical sciences, advanced health science, nuclear energy.

In modern society, due to rapid advances in science and technology taking place on a global scale, in particular, where new inter-disciplinary domains are emerging due to fusions between diverse areas of scholarship, there is demand for the development of human resources who can respond effectively to these changes and constantly play important roles as leaders in cutting-edge, global situations. This is the reason that the Graduate School offers multiple inter-disciplinary departments to produce such human resources. Its educational curriculums are designed to accept students who have built solid academic foundations in their own areas of specialty through undergraduate studies and allow them to further strengthen their expertise,while at the same time helping them to develop the ability to expand into other fields of specialization and pioneer new multi-disciplinary domains (i.e., practical skills). To this end, specialized subjects are offered in respective departments as basic education, while research guidance and seminars are provided in each research category to help students learn thinking skills required of researchers. Furthermore, the Graduate School provides Combined Undergraduate/Graduate Courses, the Provisionary Graduate Enrollment Program, which allows undergraduate students in their senior years who are admitted to the Graduate School to take graduate subjects early, and also allows graduate students to enroll in basic subjects offered by undergraduate schools specializing in other fields of specialization, to further facilitate smoother acquisition of interdisciplinary knowledge. In addition, emphasis is also placed upon the development of research ethics throughout the composition and implementation of its educational curriculums.

The goal is to promote diverse exchanges in academic studies, culture, languages and values through providing systematic educational curriculums, as well as university-wide educational and student life environments, by taking advantage of the comprehensiveness and innovativeness of Waseda University, thereby developing human resources that can make proactive contributions to the global community.

The Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering endeavors to explore academic theories and put them into practice, with the aim of realizing world-class research and education environments, and pioneers inter-disciplinary, cutting-edge domains of scholarship as a member of society. Another aim is to fulfill three functions of graduate education, namely “research”(creation of knowledge), “education” (transference of knowledge) and “practical contribution to society” (application of knowledge), based on proactive interactions between science and engineering, and consequently produce researchers and engineers who can boldly make their ways into new fields and pioneer new domains, building upon the specialist knowledge they have acquired through their graduate education. In other words, the Graduate School aims to equip students with the qualities and abilities required for Master’s students to work professionally as researchers, technological developers or system development managers, and Doctoral students as research specialists or technological development leaders, before completing their degrees and going on to careers in society.

Master’s program

Doctoral program

*Graduate Program for Embodiment Informatics Waseda University Program for Leading Graduate Schools