Keio University
28 March 2007
Keio University celebrating its 150th Anniversary in 2008, will carry out the commemorative project for the next 10 years. As a part of the project, the Graduate School of Media Design and the Graduate School of System Design and Management will newly be opened in April 2008. Both of the new graduate schools plan to nurture people who are capable of leading all areas of the digital media as well as designing and managing large-scale and complex projects. The establishment of these two graduate schools specializing in the cutting-edge field, to which no other equivalent schools can currently be found in Japan, has a significant implication to the future of the country.
1. The Graduate School of Media Design
http://www.kmd.keio.ac.jp
The Graduate School of Media Design will cultivate people who can lead the field of the next generation digital media and creative content as well as take initiatives in the global community of the field.
• Chair (to be appointed officially): Masahiko INAKAGE
• Major : Major in Media Design
• Number of Admission (Per Year)
Master's course : 80
Doctor’s course : 10
• Degrees Awarded
Master's degree : Master of Media Design
Doctor’s degree : Ph.D. in Media Design
<Concept>
Keio University Graduate School of Media Design is committed to fostering "Media Innovators" and creative global leaders who understand the core creative skills of design, technology, management, and policy in the field of media design. Education will take a practical, hands-on, and global approach to offering various projects grounded in practice by collaborating with international partner institutions and research facilities.
<Educating Leaders>
Keio University Graduate School of Media Design provides a premier graduate education to prepare students for leadership as "Media Innovators" in the modern creative society. A "Media Innovator" is a leader who understands the core values of creativity and innovation, who can implement and manage creative activities, and who is also capable of converting creative and innovative activities into economic and cultural value for society to the maximum extent. Therefore, the education program produces international professional leaders and scholars who can revolutionize industry and the bureaucracy, create and innovate new generations of digital media, who can produce innovative digital content and experience, and who can create, edit, and distribute "knowledge", which is the most valuable resource in our global society.
<Key Features>
• The rigorous and flexible curriculum provides unusual depth and breadth in four important areas related to media design, which are design, technology, management, and policy-making. Students learn the fundamentals in all four subjects while focusing on specific areas in greater depth.
• This unparalleled education program is designed to nourish the communication and language skills necessary for international activities. For international students, Japanese language learning support is also provided, and for Japanese students, English oral presentation is required to encourage students to prepare themselves to become an active member of the global community.
• International students may obtain the degree by taking courses offered in English only.
• A crash course (boot camp) is scheduled immediately after admission in order to establish the basis for effective collaboration and teamwork amongst students with diverse backgrounds.
• The education program is designed and structured to center on research projects, and courses prepare students for research and professional practice. Thus, research and education are integrated to offer academic understanding through hands-on research and the creation of actual deliverables. The research projects tackle real world global problems and propose solutions by incorporating cutting-edge research and academic theories. In addition, the research results will be disseminated through various outreaching channels.
• In order to implement cutting-edge research on current and immediate issues, the graduate school adopts a global network infrastructure. This will ensure effective collaboration between the headquarters located in Hiyoshi campus and other satellite research facilities in both Japan and abroad, as well as with other institutions. Through this state-of-the-art network infrastructure, students and faculty members will be immersed in a network-connected multi-location global campus environment that fosters a global community.
2. The Graduate School of System Design and Management
http://www.sdm.keio.ac.jp
The Graduate School of System Design and Management will foster people who can design and manage highly complex systems in a global society.
• Chair (to be appointed officially): Yoshiaki OHKAMI
• Major : Major in System Design and Management
• Number of Admission (Per Year)
Master's course : 77
Doctor’s course : 11
• Degrees Awarded
Master's degree : Master of System Engineering, or Master of System Design and Management
Doctor’s degree : Ph.D. in System Engineering, or Ph.D. in System Design and Management
<Concept>
The goals of the Graduate School of System Design and Management are to foster engineers capable of designing and managing highly complex systems in a rapidly changing environment. The graduates are expected to acquire systems engineering approaches and skills and thereby predict risks and other various unexpected factors. This will lead to system optimization throughout the total life cycle extending from conception, design, development and implementation to operation and disposal. The school will provide one of the most advanced concept design facilities in support of achieving these goals.
<Educating Leaders＞
The Graduate School of System Design and Management will produce people who have dependable knowledge of system design and engineering combined with management and information technology, and non-technical knowledge and skills such as negotiation, international communication and legal systems. As the importance of the strategic system engineering approach has been growing and as the product development environment has become increasingly complex and diversified in global scale, project/program leaders coping with these trends are urgently needed in various industries and organizations. More specifically, the school will produce (1) creative system designers who can realize new engineering systems/products while developing new marketing fields and carrying out projects in a rapidly changing global environment; and (2) project managers who have a wide range of social skills as well as technical views extending from conception, design, development and implementation to operation and disposal in highly complex system projects.
＜Key Features＞
• The school accepts students with a certain experience in industries and organizations as well as students fresh from undergraduate and other graduate schools.
• The school emphasizes practical education based on an interdisciplinary and international perspective, which includes intensive short/regular courses by world leading researchers and faculties. It provides various opportunities for internships inside and outside Japan.
• Research projects called Design Project foster a wide range of abilities in presentation, teamwork, leadership, technology, and management. Students will acquire the fundamental simulations skills, tools and approaches for the system-design by using cutting-edge IT infrastructure.
• Each lecture and research project will be carried out in either Japanese or English, and it is possible to complete this course by taking the required credits only in English.
• Lectures will be offered based on a combination of both on- and off-campus.
• It is possible for students with high motivation and excellence to be awarded a master’s degree in shorter period than nominal two years.
* Application for approval by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology is scheduled for late April 2007.
* The two graduate schools will be opened in the new building complex for graduate schools and facilities for cultural and regional activities at Hiyoshi Campus. As construction of the complex is due to be completed in September 2008, the schools will start up at Mita Campus in April and will remain there until August 2008.
* The enrollment process is scheduled to start in summer 2007. More details will become available on each school’s website in late June.
