So I’ve done my fair share of research on what’s universities are good at what I’m Japan. Generally, for most things the top of top is Kyodai and Todai which are part of the “9” Imperial Universities. And then you have private schools like Keio, Waseda, and Sophia which are just as good. As well as the Economics centered school of Hitotsubachi University. I’m wanting to study Business or Econ and some Law stuff if Indecide to study abroad. I wanted to mainly ask for business if it would be better study at Keio or Kobe. I know for Economics it’s more of a toss-up. I’m hoping I could get some opinions about Keio vs. Kobe
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Is your Japanese far beyond N1?
Wouldn’t going for a foreign company be a lot easier then? non-STEM jobs in consulting at foreign companies would put you at the high salary range and they usually require only language skill. Maybe if we are talking data science or IT a masters might be useful but there aren’t many useful schools with degrees relating to that here and it would be better to get that degree overseas anyways.
Best to pursue a Japanese school degree at an English speaking school. Joji Daigaku is a good one. There are others.
Just go to Waseda and Sophia and have some fun. Sophia has decent business and economics professors so it won’t be a waste of time to take those classes but Japan isn’t going to be a better place to learn unless your home school is complete trash.
If you want to make good use of your study abroad time focus on Japanese classes and classes about Japanese history, culture, art and politics.
(I totally agree that its unrealistic to get to the level you need to be at to take Japanese classes and to write all of the papers required. The people I know who did that took two years of intensive Japanese, that means studying almost 8 hours a day every weekday, in order to barely scrape by.)
This may be a different situation than yourself but I was once in college awhile back and I remember looking for jobs abroad. It was really hard to find anything.
I’m 26 now and have been able to get a lot of experience in marketing and project management, finding jobs in Tokyo were a LOT easier after. Not easy but easier. My projects and references spoke for themselves versus when I had nothing in college.
If I was you, I would consider going to a university in the states and studying Japanese at the same time. Like mentioned, you hope to get an MBA and do MBB or IB. for that, you would need to go to a pretty top tier MBA (t15) unless you already have experience in it.
When you are a few years in your career and have sometime to study to Japanese, it should be easier and more realistic to find a job.
After working there for sometime, you could satisfy that salaryman feel then start your journey for an MBA.
If you just want to go a Japanese university no matter what, Sophia and waseada are the place to be. My girlfriend and friends are all international students and took English based programs there and have all give or take, found a job. Keep in mind they are all N1 and higher by the time they graduated.
I’m making a lot of assumptions but if you need any clarification or if I was wrong, would love to know. Good luck friend!
Hitotsubashi University is actually a public school, which does not offer have any STEM courses but has its strong focus on economics and humanities. It’s also not really easier to get into than Todai or Kyodai (definitely a higher tier than Waseda and Sophia for the local students), so should be a good choice!