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Department	Division	Degree Sought	Student Intake	Application Period	Timing of Admission Decision Notification	Course Start Date
Graduate School of Economics	N/A	Doctoral	5			Apr.2012

Objective
In 2010, the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Economics launched the Master’s-level Advanced International Program in Economics. This program for English-speaking students was funded by the Program for Enhancing Systematic Education in Graduate Schools and is an integral part of its graduate program. After preparation in the latter half of 2009, the Graduate School of Economics recruited its first students in 2010. The two main purposes of this program are: i ) to nurture students as scholars and educators with an international perspective based on advanced analytical skills in modern economics and ii ) to teach students practical expertise in global economics.

Another new doctoral program, which was launched in 2012, is intended to enlarge the first program for the Master’s program to a doctoral program with a view to providing a complete program consisting of a Master’s and doctoral program in order to provide future global leaders with a deep understanding of Japanese and Asian economies.

Prospective students
Prospective students include those who can disseminate messages both at home and abroad from a Japanese perspective without being limited to a Western way of thinking, and more specifically, those who complete the above Master’s program with distinction.

Main courses (excerpts from Syllabus 2012, subject to change.)
•Advanced Microeconomics: Selected advanced topics in economic theory.
•Advanced Macroeconomics: The objective of this course is to learn the tools of modern dynamic macroeconomics and to use these tools to solve problems facing society today.
•Econometrics: An introductory graduate-level econometrics course. The course covers OLS, GMM and MLE and asymptotic distribution theory.
•Microeconomics Workshop: Seminars by invited speakers, faculty members and graduate students on recent research topics in microeconomic theory and applications.
•Macroeconomics Workshop: The University of Tokyo macroeconomics workshop is the leading forum for economics research in Japan. In the past year we have hosted over 40 seminars on a broad range of topics including macroeconomics, money and banking, development, public finance, industrial organization, finance, and labor economics.
•Economic History of Contemporary Japan: The goal of the course is to understand economic development of Japan from the Tokugawa period, through the Meiji Restoration in the 1860s-70s, the industrial revolution in the 1880s-1890s and fast growth period in the 1960s, to the financial reform in the 1990s.
•Money and Banking: Lectures on theoretical and empirical aspects of monetary policy and related topics on money and banking.
•Various Topics courses: Topics in Economic Theory, Econometrics, Industrial Economics, Contemporary Japanese Economy and Finance.