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What is the Hitotsubashi University Global
Education Program (HGP)?

Hitotsubashi University
Global Education Program (HGP)

HGP offers interdisciplinary courses inEnglish designed for both international
and Japanese students. HGP is built byfour pillars of course categories which
provides in-depth learning opportunities
in the fields of Business, Economics, Law,Sociology, World & Japanese Affairs,Humanities, Japanese Language
Education, and Academic Skills in English.
SpecializedCourses in Social
Sciences:
Business,Economics, Law,and Sociology(HGP)
About Hitotsubashi University
Established in 1875, Hitotsubashi University is Japan’s
leading university specializing in the social sciences
and the humanities with a strong commitment tointernational education. The university offers five
undergraduate programs: Commerce and Management,
Economics, Law, and Social Sciences, along with sevengraduate programs.

InternationalLinkage Courses:
World &Japanese Affairs,
Humanities

Four Pillars of HGP
Japanese
Language
Education

Your journey to Japan begins
with Hitotsubashi University
Global Education Program

AcademicSkills in English

Educational Affairs Division
2-1 Naka, Kunitachi, Tokyo 186-8601, Japan
E-mail: edu-hgp.g@ad.hit-u.ac.jp

HGP website
https://international.hit-u.ac.jp/courses/hgp/
Japanese Language Education Program website
https://international.hit-u.ac.jp/en/courses/japanese/
International Student & Study Abroad Advising Office website
https://international.hit-u.ac.jp/en/cgee/advising/
Refer to the “Incoming Exchange Student” page

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How to join the HGP family“HGP reduces the barriers between international
students and Japanese students to create
a common learning space for them.”
Message from the HGP Director– A Springboard for Surmounting Language Barriers–Hiroshi Ota,
Professor, Center for
General Education

HGP aims to break down the tradi tional barriers
within a Japanese university. Distinc tions between
Japanese and non-Japanese, domestic and international,
and English and Japanese have become meaningless,creating a truly global environment. A fter its launch,
HGP has gained bro ad recognition both within andoutside the universit y. Various new initiatives arebeing examined for the future, but HGP still retains its
original purpose of acting as a springboard to enhance
the internationalization of educati on within theuniversity.

Beyond Cultural Exchange
Deepening On Campus Global Experience
HGP is open to all students at Hitotsubashi University
including degree-seeking students and exchange students
from our partner universities.
Hitotsubashi University has academic cooperationagreements with highly regarded institutions worldwide(93 university-wide student agreements and 57 facultylevel student agreements, in 35 countries and regions, asof May 2023).
Exchange
Agreements

93 57 35

University-Wide Faculty-Level Countries & Regions

Language requirement for exchange students(required to fulfill one of the following qualification criteria)

EnglishTOEFL-iBT 79 (PBT 550),
IELTS 6.0, CEFR B2
or equivalent level ofEnglish proficiency

JapaneseORJLPT N2 or equivalentlevel of Japanese
proficiency

For more information, go to our website.
https://international.hit-u.ac.jp/en/pros/exchange/

Hitotsubashi University
Global Education Program (HGP)
Courses
About 150 EMI (English-medium instruction) courses
offered under categories below (as of 2023-24).
Categories

Examples of Courses

World & Japanese
Affairs

Japanese Business A: CSR, CSV and Sustainability, Japanese Society B:
Global Movements: Japan in the World, 1960s - 1970s, Japanese History:
Gender, Migration, and Diaspora in Postwar Japan And more…

Humanities

Special Topics in Liberal Arts C: Perspectives on Language, Seminar on Humanities A:
Representations of East Asia in Western Literature and Cinema (1990s-present) And more…

Business

Advanced Course in Management, Interactive Course on
Business Basics (Marketing)
And more…

Economics

Applied Macroeconomics A, Advanced Labor
Economics I
And more…

Law

Comparative Law, Introduction to Japanese Law
And more…

International
Relations

EU Law, Case Study on International Political Economy
And more…

Sociology

Cultural Psychology, Topics in Global Studies A
And more…

Academic Skills in
EnglishAcademic Skills and Student Development
And more…

Japanese Language

Basic Japanese I, Intermediate Japanese I
And more…

Andmore…

EMI (English-medium instruction)courses

About150
Courses

For more courses, go to our website.
https://international.hit-u.ac.jp/courses/hgp/