Master in Tourism
Toshima City, Japan
Master degree
DURATION
LANGUAGES
Japanese
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Apr 2027
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: Rikkyo University, founded in 1874 in Tokyo with a liberal arts tradition, hosts Japan’s first Graduate School of Tourism. The master’s and doctoral programs let students study and research specialist tourism knowledge. The master’s links latest academic research to student guidance to build foundations for tourism scholars; the doctorate prepares specialist educators and researchers and raises standards in tourism studies, management and policy analysis.
Career Outcomes: Graduates often move into academia, public policy, or industry roles such as tourism researcher, university educator, policy advisor, destination manager, tourism consultant, sustainable tourism planner, heritage developer, hospitality manager, and entrepreneurship in tourism.
The Graduate School of Tourism is Japan’s first graduate school where students can study and research specialist knowledge relating to tourism. With the increasing societal role and influence of tourism, the need has arisen in Japan and internationally to develop scholars and educators with advanced knowledge relating to tourism who can academically analyze how tourism should be in the future. The Graduate School of Tourism (Graduate Program in Tourism) consists of a master’s program and a doctoral program. The objective of the master’s program is to link the latest research findings in the field of tourism to the academic guidance of students, and build a foundation to cultivate the tourism scholars needed at home and abroad. In the doctoral program, the objective is to cultivate the next generation of specialist educators and scholars in the field of tourism. The Graduate School of Tourism provides a center of sophisticated education and research to further raise the standard of academic research in the field of tourism.
