Comparative Study on Organization for Graduate Education in the US and Japan

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23531115
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology of education
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: ASONUMA Akihiro 名古屋大学, 教育学研究科(研究院), 教授 (80261759)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 研究大学 / 大学院 / 組織 / 米国 / 日米比較 / 大学院戦略

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study examined how graduate education is organized and operated at American research universities compared with Japanese universities,especially from the perspective of differences between research degree program and professional degree program. It has been found that there are three types of how to organize graduate degree programs at institutional level, that organizational and operational styles of graduate programs differently depend a great deal on the program types:‘unifying type’and‘differentiating type' at school or college level, and that schools or colleges adopt some different types of strategies related to graduate programs at the same time.

Free Research Field

高等教育論