Doctoral degree program
Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering

Following the key policy that emphasis should be placed on graduate level programs, the University of Tsukuba will be aggressively and independently administered by each graduate school. In the master's program students are provided with extensive knowledge and methods of technological development, while in the doctoral program our goal is to create people who have a high level of self-sustained research ability in specific fields. The Graduate School of Systems and information Engineering comprises five doctoral programs (Social Systems and Management, Risk Engineering, Computer Science, Intelligent Interaction Technologies, Engineering Mechanics and Energy) and six master's programs (Business Administration and Public Policy, Social Systems Engineering, Risk Engineering, Computer Science, Intelligent Interaction Technologies, Engineering Mechanics and Energy). By adopting a Cooperative Graduate School System, we are able to receive research guidance from other national research institutes located in the Tsukuba Science City. The Graduate School actively accepts people with jobs who aim at a master's or doctoral degree while holding their posts in their companies.
This graduate school integrates a wide range of academic fields in "Information systems" for intelligent social infrastructure, "engineering systems" as the frontiers of engineering, "social systems" dealing with social phenomena through engineering approaches, and "risk engineering" which manages risks in those systems.
Through such integration, which involves harmony of environments including the relationship with human society, development of state-of-the-art technologies having enough impact on society to become de facto standards, and development of engineering techniques coping with systems involving uncertainty, we hope to go beyond the framework of conventional individual technical fields. The educational aim of this graduate school is to develop human resources from a global and comprehensive viewpoint that contribute to the further development of mankind in the 21st century. Two special programs are ongoing. The first one is the "One year doctoral program for working students." The second one is "The practical software development specialization program for advanced IT personnel training" located in the Department of Computer Science, which has adopted the public advertisement education support program for advanced IT specialist training.