SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS The spotlight turns to Tokyo for our next profile of a recent addition to AMBA’s global network of accredited schools. Based at the centre of the Japanese capital, Chuo Business School forms part of a university that traces its roots back to the aftermath of the Meiji Restoration at the end of the 19th century. Compiled by Tim Banerjee Dhoul
HISTORY The Graduate School of Strategic Management at Chuo University, known as Chuo Business School (CBS), was founded in 2008.
Chuo University itself was established more than 135 years ago, in 1885, as Igirisu Horitsu Gakko (which translates to English Law School) at an old samurai residence in Kanda-Nishikicho, Tokyo by 18 young solicitors. As student numbers grew, it moved to a new building and was renamed Tokyo Hogakuin (Tokyo College of Law) in 1889, the year of the Meiji Constitution’s ratification. In 1905, the school opened an economics department and became Chuo (literally ‘central’) University, before adding a commerce department in 1909. Today, the university encompasses eight faculties, eight postgraduate schools, nine research institutes and two professional graduate schools, of which CBS is one.
LOCATION CBS is based at a campus in Surugadai, a district of the Central Tokyo ward, Chiyoda. The campus is one
COURSES The MBA at CBS takes advantage of Chuo University’s long tradition of
legal education with an integrated programme that is designed to prepare students who are familiar with both legal and management issues in the corporate world. Strategy is a principal focus of its MBA and the school aims to support the development of strategic thinking in all aspects of business management, with the addition of a legal mindset. CBS also runs a DBA programme in business science, on which 11 students were enrolled as of May 2022.
of six belonging to Chuo University located in the Japanese capital. Surugadai was home to the university’s main campus for more than 50 years until the 1978 completion of a new campus in the Tama Hills Natural Park in Hachioji city, Tokyo. According to the university, the Surugadai campus has now been “reborn as a base to develop professional individuals” and CBS shares the space with the university’s other professional graduate school, the Chuo Law School.
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