Opportunities after Graduation

In recent years, 60% of our graduates have advanced to graduate school. The other 40% find employment in national and local governments, public institutions, and private corporations. Our graduates, including those who complete the graduate program, have successful careers as corporate employees, public institution employees, civil servants, teachers, etc., both domestically and internationally.

Since many of the faculty members who teach in the CPPS also instruct in the Doctoral and Master's programs in Policy and Planning Sciences and Master's program in Service Engineering, students who advance to graduate school often choose the Policy and Planning Sciences program and engage in research work that follows their graduation thesis. Other options are to advance to the Risk Engineering or the Life and Environmental Sciences, to which some of the faculty members who teach in the CPPS belong. Other students have of course advanced to Tsukuba's other degree programs, and to graduate schools in other universities.

Looking at job placements in the private sector by students' majors, companies in the financial sector (especially banks) are the most popular for the Major in Social and Economic Sciences, followed by non-manufacturing sectors such as information, distribution/services, etc. Many of the graduates of the Major in Management Science and Engineering find employment with companies in manufacturing and information industries, such as electrical, electronics, information, telecommunications, and software. The graduates of the Major in Urban and Regional Planning tend to work in urban and regional development industries, mainly in construction, real estate, and transportation.

Our graduates also hold various positions in the civil service, including public administration, economic services, civil works, and architecture.