Study Abroad

Student Exchange (Outbound)

The Graduate and Undergraduate Schools of Economics and Business exchange students with Inter-University and Inter-Faculty partner institutions. Please refer to the web pages shown below for further information.

• Information on studying abroad for Hokkaido University students (in Japanese)

Inter-Faculty partners

• University of Gothenburg (School of Business, Economics and Law, Sweden)
• Warsaw School of Economics (Poland)
• National Taiwan University (Department of Economics, College of Social Sciences)
• EDHEC Business School (France)

Inter-University partners (more than 100 institutions)

Scholarships

Outbound

Scholarships for studying abroad (JASSO)

Double Degree Program (DDP) (Outbound)

1. What is Double Degree Program (DDP)

   Double Degree Program is the student exchange program between the Graduate School of Economics and Business and the partner universities. Students participating in DDP are allowed to obtain credits from both the Graduate School of Economics and Business and the partner universities through credit transferring, and can receive the master’s degree from multiple universities when students satisfy the completion requirement of the respective universities. As of December 2019, the Graduate School of Economics and Business allies with University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Yonsei University, Korea, and National Taiwan University on DDP.

2. Eligible students

   Students in the Doctoral Course of the master’s program are eligible for DDP　or (students in the Specialized Course of the master’s program are not eligible)who are planning to submit one’s master thesis.

Model Curriculum(University of Gothenburg)

Grade	Semester	Venue	Main Subjects	Credit in Gothenburg	Credit in HU
1	First	HU	Micro- and Macroeconomics, econometrics, statistics	30	30
	Second	Gothenburg	Seminar, Applied econometrics	30	8+8 (TG*)
2	First	Gothenburg	Optional courses	30
	Second	HU	Master’s thesis	30 (TG*)	16

*TG: Transferred Gredes

Model Curriculum(Yonsei University)

Grade	Semester	Venue	Main Subjects	Credit in Yonsei	Credit in HU
1	First	HU	Micro- and Macroeconomics, econometrics, statistics Seminar, Applied econometrics	18	24
	Second
2	First	Yonsei	Electives	12	4
			Seminar(Distance)	0	2
	Second		Seminar(Distance), Master’s thesis(Distance)	0	18

Model Curriculum(National Taiwan University)

Grade	Semester	Venue	Main Subjects	Credit in NTU	Credit in HU
1	First	HU	Micro- and Macroeconomics, econometrics, statistics	12	14
	Second	NTU	Seminar(Distance), Seminar(NTU) , Introduction to quantitative methods, Electives	20	14
2	First
	Second	HU	Seminar, Master’s thesis	0	18

In this model curriculum, students can receive the master’s degrees both from Hokkaido University and partner universities in two years. Students are enrolled in English courses in the partner universities during one year, from the second semester of the first grade to the first semester of the second grade.