Success in the business world requires that a business person master the art of business management and devise solutions to the challenges that a modern business faces. Unfortunately, the kind of expanded perspective on business management issues needed to overcome these challenges cannot be acquired by conducting daily business alone.
In order to truly gain insight into the concepts and issues surrounding business management and to get to the heart of the challenges that face a company, a business person must draw upon a systematic knowledge base, logical thinking, and analytical skills; these attributes coupled with past experiences position business managers and executives to lead companies into the 21st century.
In the HUB-SBA Business Administration Program, students acquire these attributes by learning across a range of fields centered on business management, accounting, finance, and marketing. Throughout their studies, students hone their critical thinking skills until they are experts in analyzing problems and devising solutions.
The two-year program cultivates the literacy and thinking capabilities that form the foundations for successful management and prepares students to play a central role in the leadership of organizations.
This program is offered as a sub-program within the Business
Administration Program, and its main objective is to develop
candidates for management positions who will lead the tourism and
hospitality industries in the future.
While relying on the basic educational content of the Business
Administration Program, the following three unique curriculums are
offered to nurture "advanced management professionals" with conceptual
and practical skills to lead the future of the hospitality industry.
The annual schedule, course hours, etc. are the same as those of the Business Administration Program. For more information, please click here.
Hitotsubashi University, established in 1875 as the Shoho-Koshujo, has since the time of its predecessors, the Tokyo Higher Commercial School and the Tokyo University of Commerce, sent out many highly specialized professionals with objective analytical skills and deep-thinking ability, mainly in the industrial world.
The Master's Course in Business Administration of the Graduate School of Business Administration aims to continue the traditions of Hitotsubashi University by cultivating highly specialized professionals with advanced expertise and analytical skills related to corporate management who can play a leading role in companies and organizations.
Specifically, our mission is to nurture leaders who possess both deep insight and effective communication skills, to nurture professionals with creativity supported by advanced professional skills, and to nurture human resources with high ethical standards who will contribute to the sound development of society.
By acquiring a broad range of theoretical and practical knowledge and deep insight through their studies in this course, students are expected to become core management professionals who can creatively conceive and realize excellent companies and businesses, as well as professional human resources who make full use of their advanced specialized knowledge and analytical skills to lead society in Japan and abroad.
The student will be judged to have acquired the abilities and qualities indicated in 1. Abilities and Qualities to be Acquired when he/she has fulfilled the requirements for completion as stipulated in the rules and regulations of the Graduate School of Business Administration and the detailed regulations of the Graduate School.
The Master's Course in Business Administration, Graduate School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University (hereafter referred to as the Business Administration Program) focuses on cultivating management professionals who, after acquiring a broad range of basic knowledge and ideas related to business management, can deeply analyze issues that arise in real society, propose creative solutions, and implement those solutions while adhering to high ethical standards. The program focuses on nurturing management professionals who can lead society. To this end, we have established an educational curriculum based on the following concept of curriculum organization, which includes content and methods of study, achievement of learning outcomes, and evaluation methods for achievement of learning outcomes.
The Business Administration Program is offered on weekday evenings and Saturdays at the central Tokyo campus to provide intensive learning opportunities mainly for working people who have daytime jobs. Students can acquire advanced skills in management literacy and communication while continuing to work at a company or other organization.
The curriculum of the Business Administration Program consists of ① lecture courses and ② small-group workshops (seminar courses). Lecture courses are arranged in a systematic and step-by-step manner so that students can acquire the knowledge necessary to think about corporate management. Workshops are offered throughout the first and second years, providing opportunities for working students to develop the ability to systematically review their own management environment and daily business operations from a bird's eye view.
① Lecture Courses
In addition to the core courses focusing on the four areas of business administration, marketing, accounting, and finance, elective courses are offered as applied courses to learn more specialized content and advanced thinking in each area. Core courses provide a systematic understanding of the standard content that serves as the foundation for further learning. In elective courses, students can study cutting-edge theories and topics based on their own interests. In addition, lectures in English are also offered, allowing students to deepen their knowledge through a combination of lectures in Japanese and English.
In these lecture courses, students will learn theories that are indispensable in considering various issues in corporate management, and at the same time, through practical methods such as case discussions and data analysis, they will acquire the ability to apply these theories to actual corporate management by organically relating theoretical ideas to the real world.
② Workshops
In small-group workshops, we have cultivated an environment where the faculty members in charge and the working students from various industries can deeply reflect on their respective experiences through intensive dialogue. At the same time, the purpose of this small-group education is to nurture a spirit of integrity and high ethical standards.
The objectives for each of the lecture courses and workshops are clearly stated in the syllabus.
In lecture courses, students are evaluated on their level of achievement in meeting the objectives of the course (as indicated in the syllabus) through examinations and reports. In workshops, the degree of achievement toward the objectives will be evaluated through reports and presentations. Workshop reports that are research products will be evaluated based on the prescribed review system and criteria.
In addition, in order to confirm the degree of achievement of the learning objectives through a systematic program, the Graduate School is continuously working on the Assurance of Learning (AoL), which meets the high standards required for the international accreditation of business schools. The results are used to improve the content of each course and the curriculum as a whole.
Finally, research ethics education is provided to all students to prevent misconduct in research activities.
In the Business Administration Program of the Master's Course in Business Administration, Graduate School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University (hereinafter referred to as the "Business Administration Program") students with business experience will learn the basic concepts related to corporate management and then cultivate the ability to think deeply about various issues faced in the real world and propose creative solutions.
Because of the intense and demanding academic training required, a clear awareness of issues related to corporate management and one's own career, as well as the intellectual ability to acquire advanced specialized knowledge and analytical skills, are indispensable for admission. The core of this intellectual ability is basic thinking and communication skills. In addition, a sense of mission to solve various problems in society and strict adherence to a high level of ethics are also indispensable.
The school selects students for admission who display the qualities explained in the Target Applicants section.
In the Business Administration Program, a certain amount of work experience is a requirement for application. In addition, in order to develop advanced management professionals in the hospitality industry, for which there is a strong social need, we have established sub-programs that conduct separate admission procedures.
However, because a high level of intellectual ability is required as the basis for a clear awareness of issues, advanced specialized knowledge, and analytical skills—regardless of industry or business, the Business Administration Program evaluates "knowledge and skills;" "ability to think, judge, and express oneself;" and " attitude to learning independently and in cooperation with diverse people" in a multifaceted and comprehensive manner through a written examination, document screening, and oral examinations.