Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering [Master's, Doctoral, Integrated Doctoral and 3-year Doctoral Courses]

This is an introduction to Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering (Master's degree, Doctoral degree, integrated doctoral degree, and three-year doctoral degree program).

Message from the Dean

Learning from living things
Creating a new system
Contributing to building a safe and secure society
We are looking for highly motivated people

To all students studying at Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering

Our graduate school was established in 1995 with one major and three courses as a research department for "learning from living organisms and applying their functions and systems" with the aim of pioneering a new field that combines agriculture, engineering, and science. Since its establishment, the school has been called the Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering, and is therefore abbreviated to BASE.

In 2010, the first public-private joint graduate school in Japan, Cooperative Major in Advanced Health Science Applied Science for Biosystems was dissolved and replaced with Department of Bio-Functions and Systems Science (Master's and Doctoral Programs) and Department of Food and Energy Systems Science (Five-year Integrated Doctoral Program) with an emphasis on food, energy, and the environment.

Since the Industrial Revolution, human society has made great strides, but hunger and war have not yet been eradicated, and many environmental problems, including climate change caused by the consumption of fossil fuel resources, have yet to be solved. In today's world, where social structures have become more diverse and complex, it is not easy to find clues or paths to solving specific problems. In order to solve complex and difficult problems related to food, energy, nature, and society, collaboration between diverse people with different scientific and social backgrounds is essential.

Our graduate school conducts cutting-edge scientific and technological research that contributes to solving various problems facing humanity. In addition, problem-solving exercises that were implemented in Department of Food and Energy Systems Science have become compulsory subjects in Department of Bio-Functions and Systems Science starting this year. This is part of an effort to hone students' ability to map out paths to solving specific problems through group work with students with different academic backgrounds. The English word BASE means a foundation or base. We hope that students will build an intellectual foundation to shape their own futures at our graduate school BASE, and build a foundation to demonstrate their abilities in solving many of the problems the world faces.

April 2023 Shinya Kajita, Dean of the Graduate Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering

Outline of Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering

Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering Engineering was established as an independent graduate school with a doctoral program (two years in the first term, three years in the second term) that is not based on an undergraduate program. It aims to train students and researchers with a broad perspective that combines agriculture and engineering, as well as advanced specialized knowledge and skills, and who can conduct research activities independently.
Furthermore, in 2010 Cooperative Major in Advanced Health Science in collaboration with Waseda University, and in 2015 we established Department of Food and Energy Systems Science, with the aim of nurturing leaders with internationally recognized research and development capabilities and the ability to make decisions that transcend academic fields based on a variety of perspectives.