Waseda University (Undergrad)

[ongd]

So... I'm a junior in an international high school thinking of applying to Waseda 2 years after graduation (I have to enroll the army for 2 years). I'm thinking about applying to Waseda but I don't know anything about it. I checked my schools records and I'll probably get accepted to Waseda (my GPA and exam grades are all above the mean). Is Waseda a good school to attend to get a 4 year Business degree? I'm fairly comfortable with Japanese society as I've lived in Japan for 4 years and I'll be moving back in August. I've forgotten all my Japanese but I might take an intensive Japanese course when I move back.
I want to get a degree in Business and join the music industry as a producer. If that doesn't work out I can go work in IBM (or something like that) since I have a business degree.
Any advice?

 

[nice gaijin]

Are you talking about regular business degree, or a business concentration through their international program?

 

[ongd]

Are you talking about regular business degree, or a business concentration through their international program?

What's the difference? I want to go there as my primary university. Not on some exchange thing. Could you do a Major in Business and a Minor in Music at Waseda?

Sorry if I'm not making sense. I really don't know much about Waseda.

 

[car-zone]

Listed below are the main programs offered by Waseda University. Note) The following rules for tuition fees apply to the students who enrolled after the 1999 academic year. (In case you continued from the undergraduate to the graduate school and from a Master's course to a Doctoral course, the year you promoted to each is considered the academic year.) Please contact your undergraduate/graduate school office if you enrolled prior to the 1998 academic year.

 

[kshoo]

Hi, Waseda only offers business/commerce undergraduate courses in Japanese. If you have forgotten all your Japanese (ie. starting from the very bottom again), you might NOT want to try it because basically 1) all lectures, tutorials and discussions are in Japanese; 2) All homework must be in Japanese. But if you are somewhere half-way then taking intensive japanese classes (which incidentally, is offered by Waseda University as well) might help.

Most of the international students who want to come to Japanese universities for undergraduate studies in Japanese in general takes at least 1 year of full, intensive japanese language classes (ie. just Japanese everyday). Then at least you should be able to converse, read and write. One way to gauge yourself might be taking the JLPT exam. I was told that you at least need a 3 or 2 to get through the classes. FYI.