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Department	Division	Degree Sought	Student Intake	Application Period	Timing of Admission Decision Notification	Course Start Date
Graduate School of Arts and Science	N/A	Doctoral	10			Oct.2012

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which is located on the Komaba Campus and whose educational organization is integrated with the College of Arts and Sciences, has launched the following interdisciplinary graduate program, utilizing the educational and research assets of the University of Tokyo’s Komaba Campus. It is not an isolated program for international students but is managed with the cooperation of other graduate courses and programs of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

The Graduate Program on Environmental Sciences (GPES) is the advanced version of the undergraduate program, PEAK, in the College of Arts and Sciences. However, graduation from the undergraduate program is not a prerequisite for admission to this graduate program and graduate students from other institutions are welcome. GPES offers a more specialized curriculum in the natural and social sciences and in engineering, including advanced studies on such themes as follows:
(1)“philosophy” of the global system, including new approaches in international politics and economics
(2)policies for simultaneous promotion of economic growth and environmental conservation
(3)comprehensive understanding of the global climate, material cycles and energies
(4)new methods for exploitation of solar and other renewable energy
(5)biodiversity of the ecosystem from the perspective of ecology, evolutionary biology and environmental chemistry
(6)data analysis including statistics and computer simulation
(7)global sustainability approached from agro-economics and environmental economics.

Students will acquire professional knowledge and problem-solving skills to pursue environmental and social sustainability that has become an urgent goal in the 21st century. Students are strongly encouraged to strengthen their Japanese language ability, which also may help them work in Japan after their graduation.