Waseda Business School

The Systems Science Institute begins offering a non-degree, one-year professional education program at the graduate level – the precursor to WBS. The brand name, “Waseda Business School,” begins to appear in official documents in the 1980s.

The goal of Waseda Business School is to educate students to become leading professionals in their fields, honing their specialized skills and acumen to a level which earns their place in today’s global business society.

Waseda University Institute for Business and Finance was launched on September 1, 2017 through the integration of the Center for Finance Research and WBS Research Center.

The objective of the institute is to produce and deliver world-class research findings through basic and applied research in the fields of business and finance to support schools and to the society extensively via cooperation with Waseda Business School and merger of the educational and research systems of both organizations.