Doctoral degree program
Graduate School of Business Sciences
The Graduate School of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba, provides five advanced and practical programs for working people so that they can develop the intellectual capabilities to meet a wide range of needs. Exposure to leading-edge theories and advanced knowledge and ways of thinking will enable you to systematize the knowledge and experiences you have gained from practical business experience and redefine emerging problems in the business scene from a new point of view. The "Business Sciences" is an academic field that generates new intellectual value by organizationally integrating leading-edge academics with practical knowledge and experience. The Graduate School of Business Sciences was established in 1989 as Japan's first evening graduate school for working people. It began with the Master's Program in Systems Management, which combined management, information, and mathematical disciplines in order to foster new business leaders, and added the Master's Program in Advanced Studies of Business Law in 1990 to cultivate professionals capable of addressing new business-related legal issues. In 1996, the school introduced the three-year second-stage doctoral course (Doctoral Program in Systems Management and Business Law) aimed at more advanced and specialized education and research to provide students an opportunity to earn a Doctoral degree (in management, systems management, or law) while working. In 2005, to meet society's new challenges, it established the Law School(Law School Program) as a professional school in order to nurture members of the legal profession, as well as the MBA Program in International Business, in which lectures are delivered in English and an international MBA can be earned.
