KCGI Overview

Name

The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics

Address

7 Monzen-cho Tanaka Sakyo-ku Kyoto 606-8225 JAPAN

Academic Program

School of Applied Information Technology, Department of Web Business Technology

Courses

Web Business Technology & Web System Development

Student Enrollment

80 (Total Annual Enrollment: 160)

Number of Required Credits

44

Course Term

Average two (2) years

Degree

Master of Science in Information Technology (MS in IT)

Mission

The KCGI is committed to train highly specialized professionals in applied information technology, to equip them with practical and creative skills, and to promote their willingness and ability to respond to the current and future needs of society.

Course Program

This program trains professionals with the basic knowledge of the information technology and international business, with a specialization in e-Business, such as Chief Information Officers (CIO). The program has been developed based on the new Master’s course of Information System (IS) in Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), while adapting to and meeting the current situation of Japan.

Education System

The new independent graduate school, the KCGI, was established by the founders, professors, instructors, and staff members of the KCG (The Kyoto Computer Gakuin), which is the first computer educational institution in Japan founded in 1963. The establishment has been achieved by close collaboration with distinguished professors from the United States, and through more than five years of experience of the joint masters program with the Information Technology program at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).
We invited specialists and practitioners from the information technology and corporate sectors to form the KCGI faculty, which have made our program highly innovative, pioneering, pragmatic, and business-oriented. This highly developed multi-media-aided program has been implemented through open and horizontal division of labor and utilizing a learner-oriented instructional design of the school system.

Note: Applicants must graduate from a four-year university or college, and/or four-year special course school (Senshu Gakko), approved by the Minister of Education, Japan. Those who do not meet this eligibility requirement need to pass enrollment certification examinations before being admitted to the KCGI.