Important Notice:
Our lab now opens the new application for IGP 2027 Spring Intake.

This is a page for the guidance for international students.
Our lab very welcomes international students for both Masters course and PhD course.

Points to Note:
* In this lab, the IGP is open only to students or graduates from overseas universities. Students or graduates of Japanese universities must apply through the regular entrance examination, not IGP.
* The IGP has specific requirements concerning university level and academic performance.
* The MEXT Scholarship with University Recommendation Track corresponds to IGP-A.
* IGP is a self-funded program. Of course, applicants can apply for various scholarships at your own responsibility. However, at the application stage, applicants must state that you would still be able to enroll using your own financial resources even if they are not awarded any scholarship. Applicants who would have to decline admission if you were unable to obtain a scholarship should refrain from applying.
Full details are provided below. Please be sure to review these requirements thoroughly before contacting us.

Guidance

The research focus of this lab is Business Management and Marketing.
Please note that Economics, Finance, and Industrial Engineering (including Supply Chain Management, Optimization, and Machine Learning) are out of scope in this lab.

This lab belongs to (A) Department of Industrial Engineering and Economics (IEE), School of Engineering, and (B) Technology and Innovation Management Professional Master's Degree Program (MOT) / Department of Innovation Science (ISC; only for PhD course), School of Environment and Society.
Firstly, please check which case applies to you.

Case 1: If you want to enter Master's course or PhD course by the International Graduate Program (IGP), please continue reading below.

Case 2: If you use Japanese, if you live in Japan, or if you do not (or cannot) apply to IGP, please move to "入学・進学希望者へ."

The below table is the summary of requirements for each graduate program.

Before you contact us, please check carefully if you satisfy requirements.

For IGP, we accept only high-scoring students in (or graduated from) Top level universities. Top level universities are like Overseas Partner Universities of Science Tokyo, or equivalent or higher rank universities. Please see https://www.titech.ac.jp/english/global/collaborations/wide.

If you are not eligible, you cannot apply IGP and need to take the general entrance exam held in Japan.

• Master's program

• PhD program

Detailed guidance for IGP applicants

Firstly, I state important points.

* Please see the website of Science Tokyo 's programs for international students. https://admissions.isct.ac.jp/en/013/graduate/programs/science-and-engineering
* If you are not a high-scoring student or are in (or graduated from) non-Top level universities, you can challenge the general entrance exam of the general program of our department, not IGP.
* Students in (or graduated from) universities in Japan cannot apply IGP in principle.

If you want to join our lab by IGP, please contact to the Associate Professor Yuki Inoue by E-mail.

This is a guidance for contacting us from master's course applicants. PhD program applicants need to check this page.

Before you contact us, please check the following things.

• Please include these things in the main text of E-mail.
  ・Your self introduction (including your academic background and career).
  ・Your nationality (It will not affect the selection, but I need to confirm it because it is required for registration in the university’s internal system.)
  ・Which course that you want to enter (Masters, PhD, or both Masters and PhD).
  ・Which program that you want to apply.
  ・Desired admission term.
  ・Title and  summary of your graduation thesis.
  ・Your brief research proposal around 200 words.
  ・Content of your inquiry.

• Please attach the following files on the E-mail.
  ・Your CV.
  ・Your transcript (including average GPA).
  ・Materials showing your grade rank (e.g., 1st / 90 students) or rank range (e.g., First class honors) within your department, faculty, or university. (If such information is showing in your transcript, no additional materials are required.)

I will ask you to submit the full length research proposal after the completion of initial review of your academic status.

• Notes on the full research proposal (for the applicants of Master's course)
  ・Please follow the general ways of academic research proposal. If you do not know this, you can find much information through the internet.
  ・The required content includes (1) Title, (2) Research background and purpose, (3) Previous literatures, (4) Methods, (5) Expected results, (6) Schedule, and (7) Reference list.
  ・Please read published papers by our laboratory. If you cannot find any papers that you feel interest, you should consider to apply other labs.
  ・In the research proposal, you should cite at least one paper of our lab, Then, you develop your research based on the cited paper.
  ・Please explain the Methods in detail.
  ・The standard length of the proposal is approximately four pages in Microsoft Word’s default format.
  ・Using generative AI to ghost-write your research proposal is considered serious misconduct. If I find evidence of such practice, your application will be rejected. Please refrain from doing so.