| The Master's course places a strong emphasis on continuity with the fundamental education at the undergraduate level. It conveys not only specialist knowledge, but is structured to provide a broad view of each field from basic skills to advanced applications. The arrows connecting the college level and graduate level in the chart indicate some of the common paths a student might choose. A master's degree (in science or engineering) is usually conferred after two years of research and completion of a master's thesis based on it.
Doctoral studies are all subsumed under one major (science and engineering). While providing an occasion to use the wide ranging knowledge from basics to applications acquired in the Master's courses, the doctoral courses are designed to allow the student to explore the depths of a field of specialization, to pursue the possibilities of interdisciplinary research and the opportunities provided by the fusion of science with technology. In addition to standard courses, there is the course in Joint Frontier Studies in which Saitama University hosts researchers with joint appointments and visiting lecturers from cooperating institutions who provide instruction in seven areas of research, including the university's priority research areas of Molecular Environmental Science and Engineering, Synthetic Information Biology, Frontier Photonics and Integrated Human Interaction. It usually takes about three years to complete the research and write a doctoral dissertation to obtain a Ph.D, D.Sc, D.Eng.
Scheme of Education
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