Master in Graduate Program on Global Society

Tuition fees are 535,800 JPY per year.

The Graduate Program on Global Society is a two-year master's program at The University of Tokyo, located in Tokyo, Japan, taught in English with a September start date. The University of Tokyo is Japan's oldest national university, founded in 1877, and organizes education and research across ten faculties and fifteen graduate schools. The university serves students from many countries and backgrounds across those schools. The program addresses global society from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on fields such as international relations, sociology, economics, and area studies to examine how societies interact and change under conditions of globalization. Students typically follow a structured curriculum combining core seminars with elective coursework, supplemented by a supervised research project or thesis that applies these frameworks to a specific regional or global issue. The program is designed to bring together students from a wide range of national and disciplinary backgrounds to study global social, economic, and political dynamics together. A master's degree in global society studies prepares graduates for careers in international organizations, diplomacy, nongovernmental organizations, policy research, international business, and journalism, as well as further doctoral study in the same field, including the University of Tokyo's own doctoral-level Graduate Program on Global Society. English proficiency test requirements are handled on a case-by-case basis, with TOEFL or IELTS accepted; TOEIC is not accepted. There is no interview, oral presentation, short essay, or practical exam required as part of admission, and there is no transfer system for this program. Pre-arrival admission is available, allowing accepted students to be admitted before arriving in Japan to begin the two-year master's program within one of the university's fifteen graduate schools.