4 Best Business Analytics in Japan for 2025

There are currently many businesses all around us including convenience stores, banks, automobile manufacturers, and transportation companies. It is no exaggeration to say that our daily lives would not be possible without them. In other words, it is the enterprises created by such businesses which enrich the lives of everyone in society. Business administration refers to the mechanisms by which businesses carry out their enterprises and to the measures they take for continued development and growth. The well-being of the people working for these businesses must also be ensured. It is this faculty’s goal to study the operation of business administration with a multi-faceted approach.

In 2010, the Graduate School of Business Administration starts a new curriculum, moving from the previous two-course system to a new five-course system in order to clarify study goals. The five courses are: 1) The “Academic Course”, to foster researchers, 2) The “Business Course”, to deepen both theoretical and practical knowledge of business administration, 3) The “Japan-China Joint Business Course”, specializing in Chinese business practices, 4) The “Business Course for Working People”, where businesspeople can develop their working experience through further study, and 5) The “Research Course for Working People”, to seek solutions to diverse problems that business people face at work. In the Graduate School of Business Administration, there are many professors with diverse business experience so students are able to find practical solutions to their day-to-day business problems as well as theoretical foundations for their business practices.

In 1989, with the goal of serving the needs of the industrial community, Kobe University founded the graduate school for practicing managers and professionals, the first establishment of its kind in Japan among government-owned universities. Prior to the school’s establishment, we organized a series of meetings attended by Human Resource Managers from diverse companies, together with selected members of our faculty, to devise a prototype for a new and innovative graduate school.

Upon successful completion of the study program students receive an international private Master in International Management (MIM) degree with a specialization in Business Analytics, awarded by the school's main campus in Zurich, Switzerland, based on the recommendation of the faculty of the local campuses where credits were earned, and upon the recommendation of the school's Academic Council.