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Program Requirements
Students must either:
- Complete 36 credits from the courses in the table below, pass Qualifying Exams (QE) and then submit either a “term paper” or Ph.D. thesis proposal.
or - Complete 32 credits from the courses in the table below plus write, submit and defend a traditional Master’s thesis.
- Of the 36 (32, if Thesis option) credits, 8 credits must be from Seminar Ⅰa, Ⅰb, Ⅱa, Ⅱb, regardless of the option chosen.
- 28 (24, if Thesis option) credits must be from lectures and the designated Special Lectures in the table below
- Of these 28 (24, if Thesis option) credits, at least 4 credits must be from the “core” courses in the table below.
- Students are also required to have an overall 2.0 GPA (max: 4.5) or better for all courses taken at YNU.
Additional details of the Program
- Students who have sufficient Japanese ability may take and receive credits from certain Master’s lectures offered in the Department of Economics which are conducted in Japanese. These credits count towards the required 28 (24, if Thesis option) credits mentioned above.
- Up to 8 credits of these 28 (24, if Thesis option) credits may be from the designated Master’s lectures offered in Department of Business Administration, Department of International and Business Law, the Law School of the Graduate School of International Social Sciences (GSISS), the Graduate School of Education (up to 6 credits), the Graduate School of Engineering (up to 6 credits), the Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences (up to 6 credits), the Graduate School of Urban Innovation (up to 6 credits), and certain upper-level courses offered by the College of Economics, most of which are offered in Japanese, if the student’s language proficiency is sufficiently high. However, prior approval from the course instructor must be obtained before course registration.
- Some courses outside the program may be taken for credit, but the credits earned do not count towards the degree. These include GSISS Joint Courses, Special Lectures (other than those designated by the Program in the table below), Analysis Ⅲ, Measure Theory, Stochastic Models, Engineering Mathematics Probability, Functional Analysis offered in School of Engineering Science’s Mathematical Science Program, Japanese language courses offered by the International Students Center of YNU (for international students only) , other foreign language courses and lectures offered in the bachelor’s program in economics, most of which are offered in Japanese, if the student’s language proficiency is sufficiently high.
- Students who took the designated Master’s lectures offered in Department of Economics when they were undergraduate students can use up to ten credits toward the master’s degree unless they used the credits toward their bachelor’s degree.
- Up to 4 credits may be taken from the following lectures offered in the International Ph.D. Program in Economics. The credits earned will count toward the Ph.D. degree, but not toward the M.A. degree.
（2 credits）
（2 credits）
（2 credits）
（2 credits）
（2 credits）
（2 credits）
（2 credits）
- The students are not allowed to stay in the Program past the end of the academic year when they satisfy all the requirements for the M.A. degree.
- The students can graduate from the Program either at the end of the Spring semester or at the end of the Fall semester provided that they meet all the requirements for the M.A. degree and they will have stayed in the Program for at least one year by the time they leave the Program. See Early Completion for details.
