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Graduate School of Education

Graduate School of Education

The Graduate School of Education, a graduate program leading to a master's degree in education, was established in 1979. The Graduate School consists of the following 9 departments:

Department Class Size
total 130
Clinical and Psychological Studies in School Education 9
School Education 16
Education of Handicapped Children 8
Language and Culture Education 20
Social Studies Education 15
Mathematics and Science Education 25
Life System Education 14
Health and Physical Education 8
Art Education 15

The departments offer a variety of courses which enable the students to acquire abilities to carry out theoretical research in their own fields of study, and applied research at schools.

This Graduate School accepts, in addition to university graduates, school teachers at elementary and secondary education who wish to deepen and enhance their knowledge of education, and to acquire higher qualifications.

Tokyo Gakugei University United Graduate School of Education

In 1996, the United Graduate School of Education was established at Tokyo Gakugei University. It has provided the first doctoral course in teacher training universities of Japan for the purposes of enrichment of teacher training and the development of school education. It is an inter-university graduate school, and consists of four national universities in the metropolitan area.

This Graduate School has only one three-year doctoral program called the Doctoral Course of Education. The students take courses mostly at the students must be registered for a minimum of three years, earn a minimum of 20 credits, submit a doctoral dissertation, and pass a final examination.

Nearly 60 faculty members belonging to the Faculty of Education and Human Sciences work for this Graduate School. The quota is 20 students for each year, i.e., 60 students in total.

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