Overview
Exchange Program
As the globalization of business accelerates, management skills in a multinational setting are increasingly important. To provide MBA students with valuable experience in international settings, we established the International Program in 1988.
This Program is a credit exchange system with partner institutions. Every year, we accept exchange students during the Fall term (September through December) and Winter term (January through March) when we provide some courses in English. Also, outgoing students are regularly sent to partner schools during the Fall term.
Double Degree Program
Keio Business School (KBS) recently extended international opportunities for its students with the signing of an MBA-level double degree agreement with ESSEC Business School (France) and WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management (Germany). This program enables students to gain bi-cultural insight into management issues.
First year KBS students can apply to either the KBS-ESSEC double degree program or the KBS-WHU double degree program. Up to three students with excellent academic records will be selected for each double degree program. Students who participate in this double degree program and fulfill its requirements are granted an MBA degree from both institutions (KBS-MBA and ESSEC-MBA, or KBS-MBA and WHU-MBA).
The term of the double degree program is two years for the KBS-ESSEC program (the same as original KBS MBA program) and two and one-half years for the KBS-WHU program. Each double degree student will pay tuition and fees at his/her home institution and be exempted from tuition fees at the host institution.
The Keio MBA Program is mainly taught in Japanese. Therefore, double degree students coming to Keio Business School must be proficient in Japanese.