Students have many opportunities for international exchange on campus. | RIKKYO UNIVERSITY

National | Internationalization of Japanese Universities

Degrees with an international approach

Sponsored Content

Rikkyo University has various opportunities that offer degrees where all the classes are taught in English.

The Master of Public Management and Administration (MPMA) Course is a two-year master’s course that seeks to prepare students for drafting, implementing and assessing policies.

The course is suitable for those who pursue careers in government, international organizations and nongovernmental organizations. It is also beneficial for those who plan to advance to Ph.D. programs in the near future.

Students in this program include young government officials from Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Nepal and some African countries as part of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and other scholarship programs.

The Global Liberal Arts Program (GLAP) is one of the mainstay programs under its top global university project.

GLAP aims to nurture university students to be globally competitive leaders, with all classes to be conducted in English and the requirement that the students study abroad for one academic year.

Those in the program are eligible to live in a dormitory with international students for their first 18 months. Starting from the autumn term of their second year, they can study abroad at Rikkyo’s partner institutions, in hopes that they discover their potential and develop cross-border networks.

Other programs at Rikkyo University conducted mainly in English include the Master in International Business Degree Program, the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) with focus on teaching to Japanese learners and the Dual Language Pathway, a four-year program aimed at training students to contribute to building a global society.

Download the PDF of this Internationalization of Japanese Universities

GET THE BEST OF THE JAPAN TIMES
IN FIVE EASY PIECES WITH TAKE 5

JOIN THE CONVERSATION

LATEST NATIONAL STORIES

Welfare ministry officials speak during news conference in Tokyo on Thursday when they announced that the ministry may have collected hundreds of sets of remains of non-Japanese by mistake as part of a project to bring back the bones of Japanese who died overseas.

Japan may have collected remains of 600 non-Japanese in hunt for war dead: ministry: Japan may have mistakenly collected the remains of nearly 600 non-Japanese in Russia under a long-term project to find the remains of its war dead, the welfare ministry said Thursday. Ex...

A car carrying Yusuke Shindo, who is suspected of abandoning the body of his 9-year-old stepson, Ryosuke, enters the Omiya police station in Omiya, Saitama Prefecture, on Thursday.

Stepfather arrested after 9-year-old boy is found dead in Saitama Prefecture: A 32-year-old man was arrested Thursday in connection with the death of his 9-year-old stepson, a day after the child's body was found in an apartment building where they lived in the city of Sa...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a joint news conference with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (not pictured) on Thursday in Tokyo.

Abe will not hold meeting with Moon during visit to New York: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has no plans to meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-in during his trip to New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly starting Monday, sources familiar with the ...