Important Notice:
We are now accepting the new application for IGP 2026 Autumn Intake for both Master's and PhD course.

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:
* The IGP has specific requirements concerning university level and academic performance.
* The MEXT University Recommendation Track corresponds to IGP-A.
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.
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).
  ・Which course that you want to enter (Masters, PhD, or both Masters and PhD).
  ・Which program that you want to apply.
  ・Title and  summary of your graduation thesis.
  ・(Only PhD program applicants) List of your research publications. (If you do not have no publication, please write it in the text.)
  ・Content of your inquiry.

• Please attach the following files on the E-mail.
  ・Your CV.
  ・Your transcript (including average GPA).
  ・Your research proposal made by Microsoft Word (more than two pages for Masters course applicants; more than four pages for PhD program applicants). Because I may need to add comments, please attach a Word file instead of a PDF.

• Notes on the research proposal
  ・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.
  ・(Only PhD program applicants) Please show detailed schedule that you submit more than three journal papers.
  ・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.

If you want to apply PhD program, you also need to check this page.