International MBA Programs in Kyoto, Japan

Doshisha University, Kyoto:
Established in 1875, Doshisha University is one of Japan's most prestigious private universities at the forefront of cutting-edge education in Japan. Doshisha Business School (DBS) opened in 2004, following a long tradition of successful Kyoto-based global corporations such as Omron, Kyocera, Shimadzu, and Nintendo. Our English-language Global MBA was inaugurated alongside the school’s Japanese MBA in 2009, and following five successful years was strengthened as a independent Global MBA (Global Business and Management Studies) program in 2014 with a bolstered dedicated faculty and expanded course offering.

Doshisha Business School (DBS) offers the following Master of Business Administration (MBA) program:

Global Business and Management Studies Program (Global MBA):
The Doshisha Business School Global Business and Management Studies (Global MBA) is a two-year, full-time program that features an academically robust and innovative combination of core management courses and advanced elective courses.

The program is further enhanced through Global Intensive courses where high profile professors from leading overseas business schools offer courses premised on cutting edge research and long-time teaching experience. Quialified students may also have the oppurtunity to apply to spend an academic term abroad at one of our overseas partner universities or take Japanese MBA courses at DBS.

The curriculum is made up of four parts:

Core (16 credits or more)
Global Intensive (2 credits or more)
Global MBA Electives (16 credits or more)
Required Courses (8 credits)

Core:
The Core consists of 9 courses (2 credits each) that build a foundation of knowledge in the key areas of management which you are required to take at least 8 courses. The core courses are:

Foundation Subjects
Accounting
Marketing
Finance
People and Organization
Business Economics
Strategic Management
Operations Management

Perspective Subjects
Business and Society in the Global Context
Responsible Leadership in the Global Context

Global Intensive:
These courses are offered in compressed format (typically one-week or two-week) by top professors from leading overseas business schools. You are required to take at least one or more Global Intensive courses during your program.

Global Intensive courses offered in 2013 included:
Entrepreneurship (Prof. Hugh Whittaker, University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand)
Leading Organizational Change (Prof. Ali Dastmalchian, University of Victoria, Canada)
Global Human Resource Management (Prof. Rosalie L. Tung, Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Electives:
There are two categories of Electives:

1. Global MBA Electives
2. Overseas Partner Universities and Japanese MBA Program Courses

1. Global MBA Electives
These courses cover a broad range of business subjects, including those in our three focus areas of Sustainability and Green Business, Culture and Creativity, and Business in Asia. All elective courses are open to all students.

Sustainability and Green Business Courses
-Foundations for Sustainable Management
-Green Management in Action
-Environmental Accounting
-Sustainable and Responsible Marketing
-Sustainable Human Resource Management
-Economics for Sustainable Development

Culture and Creativity Courses
-Cultural and Creative Industries
-The Business of Japanese Pop Culture
-The Business of Fashion Industry
-Cultural Tourism
-e-Marketing
-Creativity in Organizations

Business in Asia Courses
-Understanding Japanese Corporations
-Japanese Business Practices
-Marketing in Asia
-Human Resource Management in Asia
-Investment in Asia
-Operations Management in Asia

Advanced Management Courses
-Business Analysis and Valuation
-Business Law
-Business Research Method
-Knowledge and Innovation Management
-Marketing Research
-Making Sense of the Global Economy
-National and Regional Systems of Technology and Innovation
-Statistics
-Strategic Cost Management
-Strategic Management for Innovation and Change
-Professional Development
-Writing Skills for Effective Communication

2. Courses Taken at Overseas Partner Universities and Japanese MBA courses
If you choose to spend a term studying at one of our overseas partner universities and/or take courses offered by our sister Japanese MBA Program (Japanese Language Proficiency Test N1 required), up to 10 credits of courses can be counted toward your Doshisha MBA degree. (Approval of course professor required.)

Required Courses:
The required courses help students to develop conceptual understanding and critical thinking and analytical skills as a foundation for their major project.

-Critical and Analytical Thinking
-Masters Thesis and Research Project I
-Masters Thesis and Research Project II
-Masters Thesis and Research Project III

Japanese Language and Culture Courses [for-credit, but do not count toward MBA degree]
Doshisha’s Center for Japanese Language and Culture (“CJLC”) offers a wide range of Japanese language and culture courses for international students studying in undergraduate and graduate programs at Doshisha. A certain number of these courses are open to international students enrolled in our Global MBA free of charge. Please note, however, that these courses cannot be included in the 46 credits required for the Doshisha MBA degree.