Graduate School of System Design and Management
Technical leaders to guide the businesses and enterprises of tomorrow
Background and situation
- The development of environments, surrounding systems, and products is becoming increasingly complicated, diversified, and globalized.
- Education in non-technical fields—including such areas as international perspectives, common practices, communication abilities, and legal systems—will also be needed for cross-border group work, negotiations, and cooperation.
Directions and details
- The graduate school will develop human resources for the global society that will engage in accurate prediction and optimization of country risks as well as various unexpected factors, and that will take on design management of sophisticated and more diversified systems within a lifecycle that begins with planning and extends to development, testing, operation, and disposal.
The establishment of the world’s most advanced simulation facilities is planned for this purpose. - Scheduled to open in April 2008.
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Graduate School of Media Design
Leaders in the media design field who will succeed on the world stage
Background and situation
- Society’s focus is shifting from materials to knowledge, and in the future it will come to emphasize innovation.
- Human resources capable of displaying leadership in innovation-based business are scarce.
Directions and details
- The graduate school will develop human resources to lead the way in digital media and media design while also integrating four fields: creation of business strategies and industrial markets, designer-based creativity, establishment of policies that consider national policies and strategies, and media content technology.
- The school will promote collaboration among industry, government, and academia, and will produce a variety of achievements that can be returned to the international community.
- Scheduled to open in April 2008.
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Introduction of a new curriculum for the Keio Business School
Business leaders capable of leading innovation in a new age
Background and situation
- Today’s business community is entering an era in which individuals can demonstrate skill and leadership.
- “Innovation leaders” who are one step ahead in conceptualizing the business community and economic society and who can implement their ideas anywhere in the world are in demand.
Directions and details
- The Keio Business School will enhance the quality and breadth of its curriculum while also diversifying it.
- The new curriculum will include reinforced experience-based learning through field work, an enhanced international unit-exchange program, and collaborative programs with other graduate schools within the university.
- Keio Business School seeks to cultivate and support entrepreneurs.
- Scheduled to start in April 2009.
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External link Establishment of a Graduate School for Integrated Language and Cultural Studies
(provisional name; currently under development)
Leaders with an integrated perspective of language and culture
Background and situation
- In today’s international society, which is becoming increasingly multipolar, it is difficult to resolve problems within the frameworks of single fields or regional cultures.
- Here, Keio University has a long history and solid track record in cultural and language studies.
Directions and details
- Keio University will establish a new graduate school that reaches beyond existing regional divisions and academic fields.
- The graduate school will consist of three specializations: “integrated regional cultural studies,” “integrated language studies,” and “academic digital archives.” The school will pursue integrated research and education based on an advanced IT environment.
- It will seek to develop human resources that will be active in research institutes, think tanks, international organizations, and other venues following graduation.
- Scheduled to open in April 2010.
Keio University will educate a broad range of people to take the reins of the future, and provide a picture of elementary and secondary education in the years to come.
Today, there is increasing need to develop thinking capacity, and thus education that develops the capacities of individuals and that utilizes their aptitudes is required.
Keio University has a tradition of comprehensive education that goes back more than 100 years, and thus it is expected to play a leading role in primary and secondary education. For this reason, the university is working to improve the curricula, environments, and facilities of existing affiliated schools.
Moreover, the university is planning the establishment of new elementary and secondary schools. It is also incorporating emotion and experience-based education as well as international experience in order to develop human resources that have a good balance of knowledge, virtue, and physical fitness.
