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Signing Ceremony and Commemorative Symposium for the Joint Degree Program between the University of Tsukuba and MJIIT
The University of Tsukuba and the Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT) have conducted an agreement on the Joint Master's Degree Program in Sustainability and Environmental Sciences as a Joint Degree Program (JDP). A signing ceremony and a commemorative symposium was held in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia on August 29. President Kyosuke Nagata attended the event from the University of Tsukuba.
The JDP provides education and research mainly in the fields of environmental science, environmental engineering, and environmental policy. It aims to develop global human resources who have problem-solving skills with specialized and comprehensive views, and who can contribute to realizing a sustainable society.
Students in the Joint Master's Degree Program in Sustainability and Environmental Sciences will take up a course in their home university in the first semester. They will then study at the partner university during the second semester. Taking specialized courses and conducting field investigations, the students will prepare for their master's thesis. In the last semester, they will come back to their home university and complete their master's thesis, which will go through a screening process conducted by both the University of Tsukuba and MJIIT. If their thesis successfully passes the screening process, a degree of Joint Master's Degree Program in Sustainability and Environmental Sciences will be conferred on them.
MJIIT is an international institute of technology established at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM).
A joint research between the University of Tsukuba and MJIIT is scheduled to be presented at the Tsukuba Global Science Week 2017 event on September 25 (CiC event session 3-1).
The JDP is expected to further promote developing network ties with overseas universities and expand opportunities for joint education and research.
From left: Counsellor Hiroyuki Orikasa from the Embassy of Japan in Malaysia; Professor Dr. Rubiyah Yusof, Dean of MJIIT; President Nagata of the University of Tsukuba; Professor Dr. Noor Azizi Ismail, Deputy Director General of Higher Education (Public HEIs), Ministry of Higher Education; and Professor Datuk IR. Dr. Wahid Omar, Vice-Chancellor, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia