MBA Online

Admissions Office
Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
1-1 Jumonjibaru
Beppu City
Oita Prefecture
874-8577, JAPAN

Tuition & Expenses (MBA)

MBA Tuition

Total Tuition
(regardless of whether program
is completed in 1, 1.5 or 2 years)
3,600,000 yen

A one-time admission fee of 130,000 yen is required upon entering the program.

Typical Living Costs (Twelve Months)

International Student Domestic Student Graduate Student Room

Rent and Utilities
(with lodging at AP House)
468,000 yen

Food
360,000 yen

Books and Supplies
240,000 yen

Personal Expenses
144,000 yen

Total
1,212,000 yen

Below is an introduction to the admissions requirements for applying to APU Graduate Schools. For detailed admissions requirements, please refer to the following pages:
Requirements for the Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies
Requirements for the Graduate School of Management

When reviewing applications, the university’s Admissions Committee considers past academic performance, work and life experience, intellectual ability and other non-quantifiable qualities, such as motivation, self-confidence, leadership, and the ability to cooperate with others.
Any kind of professional or extracurricular leadership experience, especially if international in nature, is highly regarded.

As a guide, to be eligible to apply for our Master’s degrees you should have
good English language skills
completed an undergraduate bachelor’s degree or equivalent from a recognized institution

MBA applicants are recommended but not required to have
3 years of relevant full-time working experience
a GMAT test score of over 500

PhD applicants are ALSO required to have
completed a Master’s degree or equivalent from a recognized institution
undergo pre-screening

Special Studies (Management)
This course will introduce students to key cultural concepts which affect business interactions, and how they can be applied to understand business situations that occur in the global environment, and also how students can utilize knowledge of these concepts to improve their business relationships. The aim of the course is to give students a set of tools that they can utilize to help them effectively interpret and respond to cross-cultural business situations in their future business careers. Particular emphasis will be placed on cultural challenges facing non-Japanese who do business with Japanese, but the course will look at a variety of cultures across the globe, and the concepts presented are ones that are applicable to any cultural comparison.

Negotiation and Presentation
In this course, students will gain practical skills in business negotiation. An overview of the negotiation process in business transactions will cover topics including analysis of the other party, procedural issues, compromising, win-loss judgment, and offer and agreement. These topics will be explored through case analysis, debates, role-playing, and simulations.

International Management
Many firms become international, but not all. However, very few firms can escape the effects of international firms as the world globalizes. This course builds on strategic management concepts and is designed to deliver a theoretically logical and practically profitable understanding of why and how some domestic firms, but not others, become international. How the international business environment is and is not affecting all firms is analyzed, together with what makes a national location attractive for foreign firms. The myths and realities of national psychological and cultural differences and their effects on managing international operations are also covered.

Managerial Accounting
An introduction to the theories and policies of managerial accounting, through examination of the role of performance evaluation in corporate decision-making, cost management, and profit management. Students will be introduced to accounting for corporate planning and coordination, through issues such as budgeting. This course will assume knowledge of basic accounting practices.

Financial Accounting and Reporting
The important themes of this course are the business context of accounting, the interaction between accounting and business, and financial reporting. We believe that such themes are of most interest to many MBA Students. This course will introduce students to major issues of financial accounting and reporting practice. In addition, concepts and techniques of financial statement analysis are also introduced and applied to actual cases by using corporate annual reports.

Graduate School of Management at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU)
Investment and Security Analysis
Topics addressed in this course will include the structure and operation of securities markets, the relationship between security value and the macro-investment environment, and investment policies for individual and institutional investors. Patterns of risk and return will also be presented, together with methods for valuation of investment products.

Graduate School of Management at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU)

Financial Management
This course will present advanced financial issues confronted by corporate managers engaged in capital planning. Students will gain skills in financial management for corporate expansion and restructuring, capital structure, and capital distribution policy.