Certified Evaluation and Accreditation Results forProfessional Graduate Business School

The Department of Business and Technology Management,
Graduate School of Economics, Kyushu University

Basic Information of the Institution
Ownership: National

Location: Fukuoka, Japan

Accreditation Status
Year of the Review: 2018
Accreditation Status: accredited （Accreditation Period: April.01.2019 – March.31.2024）

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Certified Evaluation and Accreditation Resultsfor the Department of Business and Technology Management,
Graduate School of Economics, Kyushu University
The Department of Business and Technology Management (Kyushu University
Business School; hereafter, QBS, as Kyushu University Business School is commonlyreferred to), Graduate School of Economics, Kyushu University, engages in
educational activities based on the basic policy of cultivating excellent managers andbusinesspeople in response to its primary mission of developing professionals with thespecialized knowledge required for the management of businesses and otherorganizations, and imparting the high level of professional ethics and global
perspectives imposed on today’s professional business schools. With the mission ofnurturing world-class business professionals on the island of Kyushu, QBS aims todevelop business professionals who, based on their leading business knowledge andadvanced administration abilities, bear responsibility for global development ofindustries and enterprises and transforming the nation’s industrial society in a new era.
QBS sets the educational objective of cultivating highly skilled professionals
with advanced management capabilities in Asia, a global center of economic growth.
Taking advantage of its location in Kyushu, the gateway connecting Asian countries andJapan, and the educational and research resources it enjoys as a core university in theregion, QBS promotes education that combines the humanities and sciences. It iscommendable that with this background, the school specifies the educational purpose ofcultivating individuals of talent who understand management and industry technologies,
who can participate actively in Asia, and who can create new business values, and hastaken specific measures to achieve this purpose.
QBS’s educational program is unique in terms of its collaboration with major
universities in other Asian countries and its curriculum combining management oftechnology (MOT) education and entrepreneurship education. Specifically, the programis implementing distinctive educational methods, such as allowing students to acquire
the professional knowledge, skills, and perspectives necessary for business management
as well as fostering their creativity through business planning competitions,strengthening its operations in Asia, and developing a program to cultivate
entrepreneurs. QBS’s educational program is highly commendable for providing
students with learning opportunities that can be applied to actual business operations
overseas and to starting new businesses, as shown in the survey of graduates.
QBS’s faculty is relatively small as a business school. However, it iscommendable that the school actively engages in unique educational and public
relations activities through organic collaboration with other institutions. It is expectedthat amid the large-scale change in its educational environment due to the scheduled
relocation of the main school building, QBS will maintain and develop its educational
program by fully utilizing the facility resources in the new university building.