By providing an education which provides a high level of professional expertise, while emphasizing intellectual excellence and individuality, we aim to develop businesspersons able to contribute at the highest level to contemporary society.

We aim to develop businesspersons with sound ethics who are truly able to contribute to society.

The Institute of Business and Accounting (IBA) is comprised of two Schools: the Business School, which was launched in 2005, building on the Management Course of the Graduate School of Business Administration which started in 1993, and the Accounting School, which was set up to continue and develop the long-established tradition of education in the accounting field at Kwansei Gakuin University (KGU).

This institute is a ‘professional’ graduate school, but this does not mean that its sole aim is the efficient provision of specialized knowledge. Our image of the ‘professional’ is a person with high ethical principles who will use his or her specialized skills to contribute to society. Ethics courses are compulsory for all students; a fact that we see as putting into practice the Kwansei Gakuin school motto “Mastery for Service”.

What is absolutely essential for the businessperson is to earn the trust of society. It is in order to provide clients and customers with what they need precisely and appropriately that the businessperson needs to be furnished with specialized knowledge and expertise. It is only by earning the trust and confidence of society in this way that the businessperson will be able to function as a true specialist.

Simply putting the very minimum of effort into observing society’s rules is insufficient if trust is to be earned. It is entirely reasonable that businesspersons should also be expected to possess the capacity to meet the expectations of customers and stakeholders. That is the difficult and onerous responsibility that today’s business person must shoulder.

The two Schools in the Institute of Business and Accounting offer business education programs tailored to the varying backgrounds of our students. The aim of all our courses in both Schools is to produce businesspersons able to play an active role hereafter on the international stage. Further, the wide-ranging network of alumni, with the graduates of the IBA playing a central role, will undoubtedly provide valuable support for you in the future. We are confident that studying here in the IBA will have an immense influence on your careers throughout your lives. I urge you to think seriously about the benefits of studying with us, and putting what you have learned here into practice in the world.