Admission Requirements
* The application period has been closed for this year.
Graduate Program for Real-World Data Circulation Leaders
Application for 2014
| • Number of students sought: | Twenty students are sought for the inaugural class, which will enroll in April 2014. |
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| • Admission requirements: | Students must be accepted for admission into one of the following graduate schools of Nagoya University to start in April 2014: Information Science, Engineering, Medicine, or Economics. |
• Key dates for the selection process:
Objectives and admission policies
The Graduate Schools of Information Science, Engineering, Medicine, and Economics have jointly established a five-year graduate program on data circulation to produce global leaders in industry, academia, and government who can incorporate the desires of users into new products, services, and social values.
The competitive edge of Japanese industries has been declining in recent years, primarily due to the inability to connect Japan's advanced technologies to emerging social values. To overcome this, it is imperative that we produce leaders to create new social values in which people using products and services share fundamental values of convenience, joy, health, and affluence. These values are created through a dynamic process involving users and designers rather than through an unilateral conveyance from designers to users. The desires of users often lack a concrete shape and constantly evolve as they use a product or service. Thus, data circulation, which involves continuously understanding the desires of the users to create new products and services, is truly the process of creating social values.
We believe that a new academic field is necessary to create data circulation for the following two reasons: First, creating new social values requires methodologies in fields that handle more fundamental values, including convenience, joy, health, and affluence; that is, engineering (convenience), information science (joy), medicine (health), and economics (affluence). Second, generating a circulation between desires of users and innovative products and services, requires that three functions be integrated: acquisition, analysis, and implementation. The acquisition function gathers the input of users as digital data through observations of various real-world phenomena. The analysis function evaluates this digital data using information science, while the implementation function develops the analysis results into new products and services. In other words, this new academic field encompasses the fields of engineering, information science, medicine, and economics to handle acquisition, analysis, and implementation of real-world data.
We call this new academic field Real-World Data Circulation (right). This program will produce leaders in this field who can create new social values. Graduates will be experts in engineering technologies, information science, medicine, and economics, and will be able to find circulation between these disciplines as well as connect them to generate circulation. Program participants will have a Ph.D. level of knowledge in their area of expertise and the ability to lead teams to generate real-world data circulation to enhance the social values of their research.
1. Number of students
The first class, which commences in April 2014, will be composed of about 20 students.
2. Admission requirements
Students must be accepted for admission beginning in April 2014 into one of the following graduate schools at Nagoya University: Information Science, Engineering, Medicine, and Economics.
3. Application procedures
Fill out the form below, and send it to the provided e-mail address.
application::rwdc.is.nagoya-u.ac.jp
3.1 Application form
3.2 Transcript: To be prepared by your undergraduate university and scanned.
3.3 Letter of recommendation (optional): To be prepared by your current thesis supervisor or equivalent.
Applications will be accepted from Monday, February 10, 2014 until 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 14, 2014. There is not an application fee.
* The application period has been closed for this year.
4. Selection process
4.1 Selection program
Purpose: The selection program is intended to introduce applicants to this program as well as to provide an opportunity to improve communication and English skills.
Dates: Three days during a period from Saturday, March 1, 2014 to Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Location: To be announced
4.2 Interviews (Details will be announced at the selection program.)
Dates: Either Wednesday, March 6, 2014 or Friday, March 7, 2014
5. Notification of the results
The selection results will be communicated via e-mail and our website on Monday, March 10, 2013.
6. Remarks
Applicants selected to participate in this program beginning in April 2014 will be offered financial assistance. Our financial assistance cannot be combined with any other form of financial assistance that does not require repayment. Students receiving other forms of financial assistance may receive our financial assistance through employment as Research Assistants (RAs). Please note that financial assistance may be halted while an RA travels for purposes other than those for this graduate program. Details are available upon request.
7. Privacy policy
Personal information submitted as part of the application, including your name, address, and other information, is used solely for program selection, interviews, notification of results, and other businesses related to this graduate program. Personal information used for selection, including test scores, is used for statistical analysis and research about the selection method, and part of such work may be contracted out. If this is the case, we will first establish an agreement with the external contractor before disclosing part or all of personal information.
8. Contact us
Administrative Office for the Leading Graduate School, Graduate School of Information Science
TEL: +81-52-789-4705
FAX: +81-52-789-4800
E-mail: office::rwdc.is.nagoya-u.ac.jp