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The Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, program was recently selected as one of “The International Priority Graduate Programs （PGP）Advanced Graduate Courses for International Students” by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).

The Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, program “Global Cooperation Program for Japan and ASEAN linkage “ was recently selected as one of “The International Priority Graduate Programs （PGP）Advanced Graduate Courses for International Students” by MEXT.

PGP started in FY 2006 as one of the initiatives by MEXT to support “the globalization of Japanese universities.” The program aims for Japanese universities to implement the following policies or to have a system enabling the implementation of the following policies in the global higher education market:

Understand the exact needs of partner countries/regions and international students, make efforts to actively and effectively receive outstanding international students and offer the unique educational research services and follow-up support of Japanese universities.

 A total of 72 Japanese national, public and private universities applied for PGP. Following the screening, the programs of 37 universities out of 41 universities (including the programs of all three private universities) were selected.