MBA Online

Graduate School of Business Sciences at University of Tsukuba

Library

University of Tsukuba has a Central Library and three other libraries in Tsukuba, as well as Otsuka Library in Tokyo. Otsuka Library houses approximately 32,000 technical books and 500 academic journals and is equipped with an online search system. It also provides a request service to obtain documents from libraries in Tsukuba and other universities. For the convenience of students of the evening graduate school, the library counter is open during evening hours as shown below, and the reading room is available daily until 23:00.
Opening Hours
Monday: 9:00-17:00 (23:00)
Tuesday to Friday: 13:00-21:10 (23:00)
Saturday: 13:00-19:50 (23:00)
Sunday: 9:00-23:00 (counter unavailable)
Library Counter
Tel.: (03) 3942-6818
Graduate Laboratory

There are three fingerprint-protected graduate laboratories which can be used as a shared carrel or group discussion space. The graduate laboratories are staffed with graduate school personnel (associate researchers) who provide students with study consultation.
Computer Room

There are three computer rooms co-managed by the Master’s Program in Systems Management and the Doctoral Program in Systems Management. These rooms contain approximately 80 AT-compatible machines running Unix on several server machines. The OS can be switched to Windows XP. The computer rooms are available 24 hours a day, and can be used for computer exercises as well as student study sessions and self-learning.
Interuniversity Satellite Communication Network

The interuniversity satellite communication network, of which the University of Tsukuba is a participant, enables attendance at exchange classes among 116 participating institutions throughout Japan, primarily national universities, and allows for joint seminars with the Tsukuba campus.

Features of MBA Education

1. Based on the strong teaching and research faculty of RBS
As one of main bases of MBA education in China, RBS has strong teaching and research strength, a library with enormous books and complete specialized materials, advanced computer lab, multimedia network classrooms, a CAD lab, compact disc information searching center, and a video room.

2. Unique premium MBA curriculum
The MBA education at RBS is the embodiment of the research on management theory and corporate practice over half a century. It has drawn the quintessence from the contemporary European and American MBA education, which helped form an extractive curriculum with its own characteristics. Our MBA program is featured by “paying equal attention to both advanced topics and systematic courses, distinguished professors coupled with entrepreneurs, advanced western theory integrated with domestic experience, simulated training with interactive case discussion”. RBS faculty have collectively compiled 15 case study books, and published scores of MBA premium teaching materials in English through the China Machinery Press to meet requirements of MBA case study education. It has also intensified the assessment for teachers and has promptly informed them of feedback from students.

3. Advanced case study education focusing on the integration between theory and practice
In view of MBA’s orientation of practice, we focus on case study in education, intensifying students’ awareness of competition, risks, and decision-making and on-site management capabilities, and organizing them to visit and investigate into enterprises to keep them up to date with economic development in the world, and the reform and opening up of China.

4. Flexible BB On-Line Learning System
As the pioneer in developing on-line education management system in China, RBS has an internationally advanced Blackboard Learning System (BB). With its powerful functions such as on-line course registration, scoring, classroom discussion, learning material distribution, question answering by teachers, teaching affairs management, the BB system has provided a powerful on-line platform for interactions between teachers and students, and between students; and has substantially enhanced the teaching management efficiency.

5. The colorful secondary classroom
RBS has invited senior visiting scholars, the American Fulbright and other foreign teachers to participate in the MBA classroom teaching, and has invited managers of foreign transnational corporations in China and domestic enterprise managers and scholars to give lectures.

6. International exchange activities
RBS regularly send outstanding MBA students on exchange visits to schools in the U.S. A. and Europe. Since 2000, we have signed graduate exchange and study agreements with The University of Texas, San Antonio (the U.S.), the School of Business (EUROMED MARSEILLE Ecole De Management, France), and the School of Business (Aarhus School of Business, Danmark), and have regularly sent MBA students on exchange visits to the above-mentioned schools.