Waseda Business School

The MSc in Finance Program is a two-year, English-taught master's degree at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, with enrollment beginning each September. Waseda University is internationally recognized as one of the top private universities in Japan, based in central Tokyo. It is organized into 13 undergraduate schools and 20 graduate schools, enrolls over 47,000 students, and is the second-largest university in the country. The university has produced 8 prime ministers, and its alumni are active across many fields in Japan and internationally. Guided by its founder's ethos of harmonizing Eastern and Western cultures, Waseda has welcomed international students since its founding and describes itself as the most global-friendly university in Japan, enrolling around 8,000 students from more than 120 countries and regions in the 2019 academic year. This program focuses on finance at the graduate level, typically covering corporate finance, investment analysis, financial markets, risk management, and quantitative methods, supported by coursework in economics and statistics relevant to financial decision-making. A two-year structure of this kind generally allows students to build a strong analytical foundation before moving into more specialized finance electives and a research project or thesis in the second year. The program requires applicants to submit a GMAT or GRE score, reflecting its emphasis on quantitative readiness, and non-native English speakers must submit English proficiency test scores as a compulsory part of the application. Based in central Tokyo, students have direct access to Japan's financial institutions, corporations, and markets, which can support internships and professional connections. Graduates of finance master's programs commonly move into roles in investment banking, asset management, corporate finance, financial consulting, or further doctoral study in finance or economics.