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Division of Systems and Information Engineering

Department of Policy and Planning Sciences

Doctoral Program in Policy and Planning Sciences

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Doctoral Program in Social Systems and Management

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Doctoral Program in Social Engineering

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Division of Systems and Information Engineering

Department of Policy and Planning Sciences

Master’s Program in Policy and Planning Sciences

Master’s Program in Service Engineering

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Master’s Program in Social Systems Engineering(Partial or Full Text on open access) till 2016

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Master’s Program in Business Administration and Public Policy(Partial or Full Text on open access) till 2016

Master’s Program in Business Administration and Public Policy “Management Field Studies Reports” till 2015

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Master’s Program in Finance Metrics and Management till 2007

1973	Opening of the University of Tsukuba.
1976	The Graduate Program was founded as the Program in Business Administration and Public Policy. As an independent Master Program, the Program focused on scientific analysis of problems in policy science and business management posed by both the public and private sectors. It aimed to educate high-level professional specialists able to propose solutions to policy problems. It became known as the first program of its kind in Japan.
1977	The undergraduate arm of the department was founded as the College of Policy and Planning Sciences.
1978	The research arm of the department was founded as the Doctoral Program in Social Engineering, a 5-year program leading directly to the Ph.D.. It was composed of three majors, Metrics and Planning, Management Engineering, and Urban and Regional Planning.
1994	The Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning was founded as an associated Graduate School.
1997	The Graduate Program was reorganized into four majors, Socioeconomic Systems, Systems and Information Mathematics, Urban and Environmental Systems, and Finance Metrics and Management.
2000	The Doctoral Program became one component of the Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, consolidating into two programs, in Social Systems Engineering and Finance Metrics and Management. The Social Systems Engineering Program was composed of three fields, Socioeconomic Systems, Systems and Information Mathematics, and Urban and Environmental Systems.
2001	Within the Master Program in Business Administration and Public Policy, the fields were reorganized into four fields, MBA, Applied Mathematics for Business Analysis and IT, Socio-Economic Systems, and Urban Planning.
2005	The five-year Doctoral Programs were reorganized into a two-year “First Term” (Master) Graduate Program followed by a three-year “Second Term” (Doctoral) Graduate Program. At this time the fields in Social Systems Engineering and Finance Metrics and Management were consolidated into the first-term Social Systems Engineering Program, while the doctoral programs were reorganized as the second-term Social Systems Management Program. The Social Systems Engineering Program was composed of fields in Socioeconomic Systems, Systems and Information Mathematics, Urban and Environmental Systems, and Finance Metrics and Management. At the same time the Master’s Program in Business Administration and Public Policy was added to the Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering as a separate program, offering separate courses leading to the MBA and MPP degrees.
2006	2006 The Program in Social Systems Engineering was reorganized into the fields of Socioeconomic Systems, Management Science and Urban Planning.
2007	The Third Cluster of Colleges was reorganized as the School of Science and Engineering, and the College of Policy and Planning Sciences joined the new school.
2013	As the University of Tsukuba greeted its 40th year of operation, the previously separate fields of the Graduate Program in Policy and Planning Sciences implemented a plan to reorganize as a single interdisciplinary department.
2014	The “Department of Policy and Planning Sciences” opens its doors to the first class of a new breed of planners and managers.