Graduate School of Business Administration
Course of Business Administration and Marketing
■ Master's program
Course curriculum and timetable
Credits and other completion requirements
Earn 30 credits or more from courses recognized as completion requirements.
Students are required to, in each semester, take a “Research Guidance” provided by their main academic supervisor.
Course requirements
Please consult with your academic supervisors before deciding which courses you will take.
There will be two academic supervisors: a main supervisor and a co-supervisor.
However, there may be two co-supervisors at the discretion of the main supervisor
For “Research Guidance,” you may take only the "Research Guidance" taught by your academic supervisors.
You are required to take the " Research Guidance" provided by your main academic supervisor every semester.
Since it is not mandatory to take the "Research Guidance" by the co-supervisor, please consult with your main supervisor to decide whether or not you will take the course.
You may take and earn credits for "lectures" or "seminars" at the graduate school any number of times during their enrollment.
However, it can only be counted as a credit toward completion requirements only once. Credits earned after the second time cannot be counted toward completion requirements.
As an exception, "seminars" (8 credits in total) taught by the main supervisor may be counted toward the completion requirements up to the second time (However, courses listed in the curriculum table are excluded.). Credits earned after the third session cannot be counted toward completion requirements.
For students who enrolled for 2 academic years, 4 semesters or more, they must register for a "Master's Degree Thesis" in the semester in which they plan to complete their studies.
In addition to courses in students’ major Course, they may take courses in other graduate schools and Courses as well as courses at other universities (partner universities).
The courses must be those deemed educationally necessary by the academic supervisors. Permission of the academic supervisors is required.
These courses can be counted as credits toward completion requirements in the same way as courses in the student's Course. The basic rule is the same as 3. above.
However, the total number of credits earned for the completion requirement must not exceed 20 credits, including credits earned before entering the graduate school and deemed to have been earned by taking courses in the graduate school (previously earned credits). Additionally, in this case, the number of credits that can be applied toward completion requirements is limited to 15 credits.
(1) (Credits acquired prior to enrollment that have been approved as previously earned credits: Up to 15 credits)
(2) (Credits earned at other universities, including overseas universities, other graduate schools, or other departments of the university: up to 15 credits)
(A total of 20 credits from (1) and (2) may be used toward completion of the program.
Please note that credits for one course may not be split. You may not split the credits of a two-credit course and count only one credit towards the completion requirement.
For example, if a student has taken the 2-credits courses listed in (2) above, a maximum of 7 courses and 14 credits will be accepted as credit towards completion requirements (and up to a total of 20 credits with the courses listed in (1) above).
How to take courses in other graduate schools and majors
How to take courses at other universities
※Students who do not belong to the Graduate School of Business Administration are not allowed to take any “Seminars” with “Research Guidance” simultaneously offered.
※Please refer to the "Notes on Master's Thesis Writing" of the Graduate School of Business Administration for more information on preparing a master's degree thesis.
* In this Course, we encourage participation and presentation in overseas surveys, researches and academic conferences as part of research advising in order to deepen students’ own researches.