In 1904 the Undergraduate School of Commerce was established at Waseda University. Almost half a century later in 1951, the Graduate School of Commerce was founded with a focus on training future academics and researchers.Waseda University’s mission is to foster diverse learning and exchanges of culture, language, and values in order to educate professionals able to contribute independently to global society. The mission of Waseda Business School is to educate students to become business leaders who are able to contribute to international society by applying their highly-developed skills and acumen in business and finance – the end result of an educational philosophy which integrates advanced theory and cutting-edge practice. Waseda Business School will confer, onto those persons who have completed a business education program that reflects the latest research findings, based on appropriate standards of evaluation, and who have acquired high-level practical expertise and decision-making skills as business leaders, the degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA), and to those who have acquired advanced financial knowledge and theory based on international standards, the degree of Master of Science in Finance (MSc in Finance).
