Graduate School of Environmental Management｜Graduate Schools

Program Outline

The Graduate School of Environmental Management aims to develop specialists (highly specialized professionals) who deal with environmental issues that affect a wide range of areas from the entire Earth to local communities. Social needs for environmental specialists are large and diverse, and our program is designed to produce specialists to meet such needs. We emphasize problem-solving activities that are carried out in cooperation with people actually involved in environmental issues through a number of case studies. At the same time, we offer classes of interdisciplinary theories and knowledge centering around sociology. Through cooperative work between teachers and students, we learn about the social problems we face today, examine the problems and propose specific policies to meet these challenges.

In this specialization, there are three fields in which classes may be taken, and an attempt is made to find synergies among these fields.

(1) Environmental Administration Program

Global environmental problems are studied with a focus on environmental administration, environmental management and environmental accounting, etc., in the relationship with corporate management. We foster specialists (high level professionals) equipped with specialized knowledge of actual environmental management businesses and who can contribute to the corporate workplace. Additionally, we are moving in the direction of a program for acquisition of environmental referee and environmental planner qualifications.

(2) Area Environment Coexistence Program

Students research the relationship between environmental problems and local community. We foster specialists who can assume responsibility for environmental preservation and moderation or solving of environmental problems in such places as local municipalities, NPOs, NGOs, civic campaigns, etc.

(3) International Environmental Cooperation Program

Students research responses to global environmental problems from international viewpoints. Specifically, our primary focus is on fostering individuals who can contribute to environmental improvement efforts in developing countries at such locations as aid implementation organizations, international organizations, NGOs and NPOs. In collaboration with aid implementation organizations and NGOs and NPOs, we introduce schemes for experiencing actual business in overseas fields, and, based on the reality of developing countries, students work at putting to practical use the theories and knowledge they have mastered.

Master’s Course

Major in Environmental Management (Evening Course only)

Official Site

Graduate School of Environmental Management(Japanese Only)