Fostering the practical skills needed to solve policy issues that arise in the real world
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Feature of the Graduate School of Policy Science
Feature
The Research Project is a hallmark of policy science. Multiple faculty members and graduate students participate in this course where the faculty members supervise graduate students engaged in joint research projects.
Curriculum
This page outlines the curricula of the master's program and the doctoral program.
Faculty members
The Graduate School of Policy Science at Ritsumeikan University is home to many uniquely talented faculty members.
Three types of Cluster
The Research Project aims to create an intellectual space for policy theory and research in which faculty members with different areas of expertise and graduate students with diverse research motivations and topics collaborate to solve real-world policy issues, all while constantly traversing the space between those policy issues and applications in the field.
NEWS
- 2025.03.20 AY2024 Fall Semester Graduation Ceremony for the Graduate School of Policy Science was Held!
- 2025.03.10 The international symposium ‘Is the Nordic welfare model facing a period of great upheaval in the 2020s? A dialogue between the Nordics and Japan’ was held.
- 2025.03.07 AY 2025 Post-Master's Research Student / Doctoral Research Student Application Guidelines
- 2025.01.24 Ms. Tsumugi YASUI (graduate student in the Master’s program) received an Award from the Japanese Society for Environmental Education
- 2024.11.21 University Recommended Japanese Government Scholarship for September 2025 Enrollment