To develop talented human resources with
advanced expertise on Urban Life field

Master’s program of urban life studies is the advanced educational course to develop talented human resources for creating the “valuable urban life”, as well as one of active research core of excellence in “Tokyo City University for Researching the City”.

We are located in Tokyo City as a unique metropolis in the world, where is continuously producing so much various urban cultures and subcultures, where the old meets the new, where is the advantageous position for researching urban life studies. We are aiming at inspiring excellent analysis and cutting edge discovery in terms of urban life issues for next generation, by using youth fellow’s points of view, as well as foreign fellow’s points of view, by observing various urban life phenomena that are arising in Tokyo. Why don’t you join us?

With both two different skills that’s required to be a practical expert of urban issues, which are analytical skill of social science and creative skill of spatial design, we are preparing effective curriculum including six major lectures such as “Advanced Urban Business”, “Advanced Urban Planning”, “Advanced Urban Design”, “Advanced Architectural Design”, “Advanced Urban Project Management” and “Advanced Urban Systems”.

Theme of your master’s thesis will be broadly accepted so long as urban issues are concerned and of course your professor could be agreeable. So you should choose your professor prior to applying entrance examination. For more information, please see digital book by below URL/

Schedule of Entrance Exam

Schedule B application (late Aug.), exam (early Sep. in Tokyo), result (mid Sep.)
Schedule C application (mid Jan.), exam (mid Feb. in Tokyo), result (late Feb.)
(Our exam category is “General Examination” which is required EJU (below URL) in advance
Detail Info (Japanese) https://www.tcu.ac.jp/entrance/graduatesummary/environment/contact/
EJU (Examination for Japanese University Admission http://www.jasso.go.jp/en/eju/index.html
Digital Book https://www.tcu.ac.jp/english/digital_book/book14/#page=1
Contact tckyoumu@tcu.ac.jp

Urban Life Studies Division, Graduate School of Environmental and Information Studies, Tokyo City University

Basic Concept of Urban Life Studies

Urban Life Studies is a new interdisciplinary academic field aiming to explore the concept of “quality of modern urban life” in modern urbanized society through reorganizing conventional academic areas and understanding social phenomena from the perspective views on the urban life in the combination of the four angles, which are Urban Lifestyle, Urban Management, Urban Social Systems and Urban Spatial Design. It seeks practical and innovative research by establishing the new methodologies as well as the advanced knowledge, and develops professional human resources.

Admission Policy

Master’s
Course
[Purpose of Education, Research and Human Resource Development]
The purpose of the Master Program of Urban Life Studies division is to develop human resources who have ability to find out specific issues that deserve to research, who have ability to investigate them with specialized knowledge and analytical knowhow, and who have ability to propose a practical and creative solution that leads to “quality of modern urban life”.
[Invited Personality]
  • 1. Having interest on urban issues, and willing to contribute to the society thorough research or projects in terms of creating “quality of modern urban life”.
  • 2. Basic knowledge at the level of graduation with a bachelor’s degree, ability of logical thinking, motivation for new discover, inventive ideas or creative works.
  • 3. Japanese language skills to participate in lectures.
  • 4. Having communication ability with Japanese language
  • 5. Having morality and ethical mind as a researcher
Doctoral
Course
[Purpose of Education, Research and Human Resource Development]
The purpose of the Doctoral Program of Urban Life Studies division is to develop human resources who have profound insight on urban issues, ambition to explore brand new areas in order to create “quality of modern urban life”, interdisciplinary bread perspective, and with advanced capability for research and teaching.
[Invited Personality]
  • 1. Having interest on urban issues, and willing to contribute to the society thorough distinguished research or projects in terms of creating “quality of modern urban life”.
  • 2. Knowledge and capabilities for research work at the level of graduation with a master’s degree, interdisciplinary perspective, ambition to explore brand new areas of academic field.
  • 3. Language skills to participate in lectures and conduct research on a global scale
  • 4. Having communication ability with Japanese language
  • 5. Having morality and ethical mind as a researcher.

Diploma Policy

Master’s
Course
[Specialized Knowledge and Applicable Skills]
Acquired the abilities of profound consideration with specialized knowledge for seeking practical solutions on specific issues in the field of such as urban lifestyle, urban design, urban social system, project management or other various issues relates to modern urban society.
[Analytical Capacity and Imagination Ability]
Acquired the abilities to find practical resolutions through scientific way of thinking, survey, investigation and analysis in terms of urban lifestyle, urban design, urban social system, project management or other various modern urban issues
[Communication Ability and Sense of Responsibility]
Having potentialities for making more progress in research and practices with excellent communication ability and sense of responsibility in order to contribute for international society
[Research Ethics]
Having morality and ethical mind as a scientific researcher.
Doctoral
Course
[Advanced Capability for Scientific Research]
Acquired the advanced and profound research capability in terms of to accomplish a specific research issue in the academic field of urban and urban life issues in order to find practical resolutions and to contribute tor accumulation of wisdom.
[Interdisciplinary Perspective]
Acquired interdisciplinary capabilities in terms of to contribute to create brand new value by finding various kinds of issues with bird eye’s view and connecting them with advanced knowledge on urban life, urban design or issues relates to modern urban society.
[Research Ethics]
Having morality and ethical mind as a scientific researcher.

Curriculum Policy

Master’s
Course
[Required Subjects]
Students should take required subjects in relation to complete master thesis under guidance and instruction by teachers of belonging laboratory. Throughout these research process, students enhance their required capabilities on scientific way of thinking, survey, investigation and analysis in terms of solving problems of modern urban society or creating attractive modern urban life.
[Specialized Studies]
Students should take subscribed number of “Basic Specialized Subjects” in order to obtain interdisciplinary broad knowledge, and also take subscribed number of “Specialized Subjects“ which correspond to four major field of urban life studies, i.e. Urban Lifestyle, Urban Design, Urban Social System and Project Management, in order to understand more specialized knowledge of each study field
[General Common Subjects]
Student should take some General Common Subjects in order to be a human resource who has practical capability for success in the international society, and are required to make presentations on your research.
Doctoral
Course
[Advanced Research and Teaching Skills]
In order to be a professional researcher as well as teacher and academic member of the society, students should acquire various advanced skills in the circumstance of easily taking advices from any teachers in the whole graduate school.
[Making Progress on Academic Wisdom]
In the academic field of urban life studies, students promote and carry out their doctoral research with advanced methodologies of investigation or analysis, integrate these findings and complete a consistent doctoral dissertation. Throughout these process, each student are expected to be an independent professional researcher who has international and interdisciplinary perspective, or a creative professional who has distinguished imaginative ability.

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