Certified Evaluation and Accreditation Results forProfessional Graduate Business School

Tokyo Institute of Technology
School of Environment and Society
Department of Technology and Innovation Management

Basic Information of the Institution
Ownership: NationalLocation: Tokyo, Japan

Accreditation Status
Year of the Review: 2019
Accreditation Status: Accredited（Accreditation Period: April 1.2020 – March 31.2025）

Certified Evaluation and Accreditation Results
for the School of Environment and Society— Technology and Innovation Management, Tokyo Institute of Technology

The School of Environment and Society — Technology and Innovation Management,
Tokyo Institute of Technology (hereinafter referred to as the “School”), has the mission
and goal of “fostering business people capable of applying science and technology,
establishing their own theories, and contributing to the development of industry andsociety as leaders of innovation creation.” Its educational objective is to cultivate theability to make responsible decisions based on originally-developed theories with afactual basis, through the construction of original theories and adherence to highprofessional ethical standards. Taking advantage of Tokyo Tech's strengths in scientificresearch and engineering, the School provides education that aims to put acquired
knowledge into practice and enables students to construct their original theories. In thiscontext, the term “theory” refers to the process whereby students systematize theirknowledge and identify a regularity thereof through generalizing and abstracting
information they have gathered about a particular phenomenon, and thus does notnecessarily refer to an academic theory. It is commendable that the School aims to provide
education which not only involves learning existing frameworks but also applies them tomanagement phenomena.
Based on the abovementioned educational objectives, the School offers adistinctive educational program that involves providing opportunities to learn aboutknowledge structures and frameworks through subjects unique to the field of technology
management, providing cutting-edge interactive lectures given by world top-levelengineers in the first year of the curriculum, implementing extensive research supervision
centered around “specialized subjects,” and holding hands-on innovation seminars given
by lecturers from the industrial world, among other activities. As a result, as a professional
graduate business school in the field of technology management, it is notable that theSchool provides an educational program that aims to provide cutting-edge knowledge
about scientific research and engineering and foster innovation creation through research
implementation and the adoption of a business administration perspective. Furthermore,
the School has produced graduates who have been trained according to its unique purpose.
That the various outcomes of the program are materializing is apparent from thefact that working students who graduated from the School have earned praise from thecompanies at which they work, newly employed graduates have been assigned to2

corporate business development divisions and intellectual property divisions as workready personnel, and business start-ups have been well-received globally. However, interms of measuring educational outcomes, there is room for improvement since there isno system for verifying/assessing how the educational program of the School has led tothe achievements made by graduates. Furthermore, such educational outcomes should beactively disseminated to current students and potential enrollees, as well as to society ingeneral.
One final remark in relation to the School’s strategy as a professional graduate
business school. Although resources are concentrated to the field of technology
management, our survey interviews showed that some students wanted more subject
variety and advanced subjects with regard to educational opportunities in fields related tobusiness administration. In consideration of this situation, the School should offer more
opportunities to students who wish to take business management subjects, through credit
transfer with other internal departments or partner universities, for example. The School
is a professional graduate business school of one of Japan’s major comprehensive scienceand engineering universities. As such, it is understandable that focus is placed on
scientific research and engineering. However, the School will be able to make its
educational program even better through making the improvements mentioned above, andwe hope such efforts are made going forward.

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