The
Faculty of Economics was started
in 1924 as the Department of Economics
of the Faculty of Law and Letters.
The Department grew into an independent
faculty in 1949. Responding to
the social needs and changes of
the economic environment, the
Faculty has proactively added
and reviewed the fields of research
and education. Consequently, a
wide range of resources in the
foremost fields of academic activity
are available for researchers
and students. More than 50 faculty
members are performing advanced,
ultramodern, research and education
in the extensive field of economics.
A new organization
of research and educational bodies
was started in April 2003. Before
that time, the Faculty of Economics,
as the research body to which
all the faculty members belonged,
consisted of three Departments:
The Department of Economic Engineering
(DEE), The Department of Industry
and Business Systems (DIBS), and
The Department of International
Economic Study and Business Administration
(DIESBA). The Graduate School
of Economics maintained the corresponding
departments of study for each
department of the Faculty.
In the new,
reorganized, organization, the
Department of Business and Technology
Management (QBS - Kyushu University
Business School) has been added
as a new research body. The emphasis
of the QBS is centered around
corporate management and business,
especially stressing technology
management and Asian business.
Concurrently in the Graduate School,
the new department of Business
and Technology Management contains
the Business School, which confers
MBA degree on its graduates.
The three Departments
of the Faculty remain the same.
The DEE includes a wide range
of academic themes in the fields
of economic system analysis, economic
analysis and policy, and mathematical
and computer sciences. The DIBS
covers analysis of systems of
industries, management and accounting. |
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The
areas of focus of the DIESBA are
the international economy and
business, which cover a broad
range of issues in international
economic affairs and globalized
business activities. In the Graduate
School, areas of both the DIBS
and the DIESBA have been consolidated
to form a new Department of Economic
Systems, which encompasses the
theory and analysis of economic
systems in the themes of corporations,
industries, and the world economy.
Three educational areas are offered
in the Graduate School of Economics
in the new organization.
The School of
Economics, which is the undergraduate
School, has not been directly
influenced by the reorganization.
The School has two areas: The
Economy and Business, and Economic
Engineering. In the Economy and
Business area, students choose
various subjects from Economic
Analysis, Industrial Analysis
and Business Analysis. In the
Economic Engineering area the
main focus is placed, among other
things, on the quantitative approach
for grasping the economic problems
and theoretical methods for proposing
policy for economic problems.
The number of
graduates from the Schools has
now reached in excess of 15,500,
with many playing leading roles
as educators, government officials,
business professionals, researchers,
and other crucial areas both in
Japan and abroad.
We are now in
an era of global paradigm change
in technology, politics, international
relations, trade, management and
other fields. The missions of
our Faculty and Schools are to
provide useful research results
for these emerging paradigms and
educate talented individuals who
can add value to this new world.
(Thus, as a conseguence of the
April 2003 reorganization, the
newly integrated efforts of highly
advanced academic works and the
applied studies has enhanced the
excellence of economic and business
studies at the University.) |
First
edition of The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith housed in the Library
Collection
