Master's Course admission quota is335 Graduate School of
Regional Development and Creativity

Creative interdisciplinary research to challenge new mission of the graduate school education has begun!

The fundamental mission of Utsunomiya University is to “improve the welfare of mankind and contribute to world peace”. Education and researches emphasizing practice have being explored in GRDC. In GRDC graduate students contributing to our society are educated and trained, so that they can develop the abilities and skills necessary to open new doors to the future.
Currently Utsunomiya University reforms our basic policies to “create vibrant and sustainable community”, to “respond to globalized society” and to “create innovation”. “The Graduate School of Regional Development and Creativity (GRDC)” was born as an “intellectual base” of the regional innovation to realize the policies.
We will challenge the following 5 missions in order to develop human resources who lead a new era. We also have organized a creative research environment, combining diverse range of curriculum exceeding a framework of existing graduate schools, based on School of Regional Design (established in 2016 Academic Year) which aim is to resolve regional issues with integration of arts and sciences.

Research on self-propelled strawberry harvesting robot
Research on self-propelled strawberry harvesting robot

Utsunomiya university’s mission of graduate school education

  1. Creation of sustainable and prosperous community

    Human resources who support a sustainable and prosperous community are in higher demand in order to address wide range of issues from local community to country and world.

  2. Two driving forces: Social design and Innovation

    The education and research related to the social design and the innovation are required to create a sustainable and prosperous community.

  3. Activation of boundary and interdisciplinary fields

    It is necessary to expand boundaries and interdisciplinary fields by lowering barrier of specialized discipline in order to solve the 21st century's issues.

  4. Advanced “Scientific literacy”

    It is required to cultivate the ability to think deep about the nature of things, practical communication skills, the flexibility for globalization and collaboration capability, as well as the challenging spirit to confront issues in multilateral views in order to develop human resources equipped with resilient and flexible abilities to think and take action for problem solving.

  5. Promotion of world-level researches in advantageous and distinctive fields

    It is necessary to promote world-level researches in both regional and international fields bidirectionally by enhancing cooperation with overseas excellent universities as well as collaboration with private-sector firms in addition to activation of interdisciplinary fields.

Advantages of
Utsunomiya university

We develop practical education and research in a diverse regional environment.

Utsunomiya university, which has 5 faculties and graduate schools, implements various activities by leveraging its wide range of specialized curriculum in order to facilitate the integration of arts and sciences/interdisciplinary integration.
We also focus on regional partnership for education and research, and such partnership with local governments reached 74 agreements.
Tochigi prefecture where the university resides is about 50 minutes away from Tokyo on the bullet train (Shinkansen) and has a character as the suburb of metropolitan area, whereas the prefecture is suitable for agriculture, industry and tourist business and also has a feature as such well-balanced “miniature version of whole country” from the primary to tertiary industries.
“Graduate School of Regional Development and Creativity” implements fieldwork in the diverse specialized fields by making use of regional specifics and actual regional collaborations, and enhances practical education and research related to the regional issues.

Utsunomiya university

Two divisions to promote integration of arts and sciences/interdisciplinary integration develop human resources equipped with advanced abilities for problem solving

Fulfill our mission of graduate school education with new divisions which enable creation and challenge to the new field.

Philosophy

Develop advanced human resources who support the creation of social design and innovation in order to contribute to the creation of a sustainable and prosperous community having solved the 21st century's issues, along with promoting on distinctive and advantageous researches.
(“Creation of a sustainable and prosperous community” and “creation of social design and innovation”)

“Region” in Graduate School of Regional Development and Creativity

In this graduate school it is defined that “a region does not indicate a specific space or range with a unit of geographical and physical significance. It is set according to problem consciousness, having variable and diverse characteristics and composed in the connection relation of ‘local/national/regional/global’”.
In specific, based on the assumption of community level, urban and regional, whole country and international level, we implement education and research targeting these broad field.

Target resources

Cultivate proactive professionals equipped with advanced expert knowledge and engineering with regards to social design and innovation as well as interdisciplinary intellect and practical skills in order to contribute to the creation of a sustainable and prosperous community.

Ability to be cultivated

Based on the 3C Spirit (“Challenge” proactively, “Change” ourselves and “Contribution” to society) + 1 (Creation: creative thinking ability and practical skills), we develop fundamental and comprehensive vision, communication ability and the ability to take action, etc. which are required for the practice of advanced expert knowledge and engineering with regards to social design and innovation, interdisciplinary intellect and practical skills and multi-sector collaboration.

Three Educational Policies

  1. Diploma Policies
    (Policies on academic degree conferment)

    • Acquire advanced expert knowledge and engineering related to social design and innovation to support the creation of a sustainable and prosperous community.
    • Acquire broad interdisciplinary intellect and practical skills.
    • Acquire the ability to take proactive action based on the 3C spirits (Challenge, Change and Contribution) +1 (Creation: creative thinking ability and practical skills).
    • Acquire the ability to overview, collaboration skills and communication skills enables to practice multilateral collaborations.
    • Acquire the ethics.

  2. Curriculum Policies
    (Curriculum to achieve academic/educational target)

    • Unify basic courses in curriculum.
    • Provide common courses in order to cultivate the interdisciplinary intellect and fundamental practical skills as a top-level “science literacy” in the 21st century.
    • Provide program courses in order to acquire advanced expert knowledge and engineering related to diploma/degree.
    • Courses and its supervising system to cultivate interdisciplinary intellect and practical skills.
    • Linkage among curriculum to achieve synergy effect.

  3. Admission Policies (Policies on enrollment admission)

    • Person who has basic academic skills necessary for the courses and research.
    • Person who is willing to ambitiously challenge new things with creative intellect and the ability to take proactive action.
    • Person who has strong interest and motivation in contributing to the community and is willing to acquire advanced expert knowledge/engineering and practical skills.