We believe sound ethical foundation is indispensable for professional business persons in our age. We do teach you how to be competitive, but at the same time, we emphasize how to act ethically so that you could be an influential and respected business person after your graduation. Our school motto, “Mastery for Service,” is very well represented in our business education.

Core classes are designed to provide you the foundation for your basic business literacy, while basic classes provide foundation for your specialty. Building on these foundations, you will enhance your specialty by taking advanced classes.

You can select your major from 4 programs; Management, Marketing, Finance, and Family Business Management.

We have classes mainly during daytime, from Monday through Saturday, depending on the courses you take.

We have 4 quarters a year, 2 quarters each semester.

Our school year starts from September for students entering at the fall intake, and from April for students entering at the spring intake.

The student may be permitted for an Accelerated Graduation or Early Graduation.
Students who have spent more than three years in full-time employment before entering the IBA may be permitted to finish all the required courses in one and a half years and get MBA. You can apply for an Accelerated Graduation only at the time of your enrollment.
If you have completed the graduate school before entering the IBA, some of the credits you earned may be counted as part of the IBA degree requirements upon approval. You can apply for an Approval of Credits and Early Graduation only at the time of your enrollment.

Our standard course requirement is 2 years.
The required credits for graduation: 44 credits. Restrictions on the number of taken in a semester: 22 credits.

You can take classes offered at Corporate Strategic Management Course, which is our another MBA course designed for mid-senior experienced practitioners. Their classes are offered on evenings of week-days and on weekend, in Japanese.

You will have an opportunity to work very closely with one of our faculty members, in order to thoroughly study specific business topic. We call this program “Individual Research.” With the completion of a detailed study, you will finish an equivalent of master’s thesis in your latter half of second year.

You will have a lot of opportunities to closely work with your classmates either in class preparation or in course projects. The co-working relationship among students is quite cooperative, and you will enjoy substantial mutual co-teaching experiences at International Management Course.

Class size varies from 3 to 10 or 20, depending on the course. For example, usually basic course and core courses have more students than advanced courses. In any class, the interactions between students and professors, as well as among students, are quite intensive.

The age range varies depending on the semester and global circumstances. We usually have students in their 20s to 60s, which brings diversity to our courses.

This also depends on the semester and global circumstances, but IMC usually consists of 90-99% international student and 1-10% Japanese. The origin of international students is quite globally diverse, including Asia, Middle-East, Europe, Africa, South Pacific, and the Americas.

Roughly half of our faculty members have distinguished academic records. The rest of them joined our faculty from various industries and functionalities with substantial professional experiences. You could learn from very well balanced mix of academics and practitioners at International Management Course.

It is possible to receive job offers in Japan. However, these job offers are often dependent on your level of fluency in the Japanese language.

Most of our students gain job offers at highly praised global firms in hi-tech, financial, and healthcare industries. Traditional Japanese firms are also major employers for our students.
The students can have career consultation service in English on campus (only during their enrollment at Kwansei Gakuin University (KGU)).

We have by-annual discussion meetings where students, teachers, and support staff discuss how to improve your learning life at International Management Course. You could discuss various issues of your interests there with your classmates, faculty members, and support staff.

Our university provides job search supports to all its students. The service includes hiring information, career seminars, and individual consultation.

International students at KGU can consult with Teaching Assistants or counselors at our counseling center in English if they have difficulties with daily lives, how to use our university portal site, course selection etc. Regarding course registration status, please consult with our office.

Each professor designates regular office hours available for individual consultation. You could discuss variety of topics with them, including course work, career design, and job hunting.

We have several scholarship programs available for those students who need financial supports such as JICA, MEXT (Embassy, Partner University), etc. depending on your eligibility.
Please refer to https://iba.kwansei.ac.jp/en/imce/tuition/ for more information. You will also be informed upon enrollment.

Please refer to Admissions for details.

For 2027 Spring and beyond, applicants must have a score that meets or exceeds the minimum standard on one of the following English language proficiency tests: TOEFL iBT (85), TOEFL ITP (570), IELTS (6.0), TOEIC (780), Duolingo DET (115), Pearson PTE-A (55), or Cambridge CPE (169).
We also have such classes as “English Communication” and “Advanced English Communication” where you could learn to communicate in English.

If you would like to know the students’ voices, you can read “students’ voices” in our brochure (page 7 and 8 in our brochure). Or you can watch the videos on our website:https://iba.kwansei.ac.jp/en/imce/movie/.
If you need to contact the current students to know further information, please contact imc_admissions@kwansei.ac.jp first.

We welcome your class visit since we believe it should be the best opportunity to convince you of our educational quality. Also, we have online information sessions where our professors will describe our program in detail. Please visit our website and apply for online information sessions and class visit (https://iba.kwansei.ac.jp/en/imce/infosession-classvisit/).

It depends on which exam pattern you are qualified for. If you are overseas resident (irrespective of nationality), you will have to submit your video essay in addition to your online application and the payment of the entrance examination fee in order to complete application. We review materials in your application packet and your video essay to make acceptance decision (Pattern B). If you are domestic resident (irrespective of nationality) you will have both written exams and an oral interview in addition to application packet materials review (Pattern A). These exams primarily evaluate your level of maturity as a potential business person, logical thinking capacity, as well as basic fluency in English. More specific information is available on http://www.kwansei-ac.jp/en/imce/admission/

Educational backgrounds of our current students are quite diverse, including literature or science & technology. It indicates that we are not looking for only applicants with business literacy. We are looking for applicants with well-thought career vision, strong aspiration for higher learning, and distinct achievements in your undergraduate major, no matter from which disciplines you come.

To apply for our program, applicants are required to hold a bachelor’s degree and submit an English proficiency test score, regardless of the university from which they graduated or their nationality. We do not require any professional experiences from potential applicants. We do require that you have substantial interests in business or managing organization. Well-thought career vision, strong aspiration for higher learning, and distinct achievements in your undergraduate major are also very much appreciated.