<p>Hello, my name is Chase</p>
<p>Just going to get to the nitty gritty.
Im going to be a highschool senior this year and i am looking around for colleges.
ive wanted to be in international business for my whole high school career and have always been facinated with the japanese language.
ive taken japanese all 4 years in high school, even changed schools to find a better japanese program.</p>
<p>now that college time is rolling around i have a few questions on best colleges to go to for the route im heading for</p>
<p>after about three hours of searching, i think i have narrowed it down that the schools i should be looking at are
Hawaii state - manoa
uo wisconsin- Madison
penn state
michigan state
indiana state
and washington state. </p>
<p>first i would like to ask what other schools also have good programs to learn from? maybe i missed a few
second, i would like to know if any schools on my list either excel in business or engineerin, most perferably both.
and third, i would like to know more about the culture of the city,
i would like a big city with a more relaxed culture of people, a new age city nearly.</p>
<p>sorry if i asked for alot, but i feel college is a big choice, and im honestly overwhelmed by it all, i feel the most comfortable when i know all the information. and after weeks of summer spent on the pc looking around, i still feel like i know nothing.
any information would be useful, thanks so much</p>
<p>Why not study in Japan? Japanese universities have a new program called Global 30, which allows students to study degrees in English. You could take, say, Economics as your degree, while studying Japanese throughout your degree program. Get your JLPT level 1 or 2 in that time and you are golden. Tuition fees are significantly lower than in the US, and scholarships are generally available.</p>
<p>I would perhaps advise you to consider Tsukuba Univerity’s program
[College</a> degrees taught in English in Japan](<a href=“http://www.global.tsukuba.ac.jp%5DCollege”>http://www.global.tsukuba.ac.jp)
Tsukuba has the best economics department in Japan, and one of the best Japanese language and culture departments. Your first year would be free.</p>
<p>Since you are considering Penn State I would look at Bucknell. It has a great business program and an east asian major or minor with a Japan emphasis.</p>
<p>thanks for the replies guys
Biologyguy: This seems like a great program, and the link u gave me is saved in my favorites. the only thing i would worry about this program is the social aspect of it all. im a social person and i feel if i go to japan, my social life will be hindered. but i could be wrong, if anyone has gone through global 30, i would love to hear how it went.</p>
<p>i havent heard ohio or pittsburgh to be good schools for japanese studies, but i will surely look more into it.
thanks alot guys, i appreciate it</p>
<p>Hi Chase,</p>
<p>Tsukuba is a fairly international place, and there is a good nightlife here. There are over 240 student clubs, each of which has its own unique flavour and social scene, but also a large and diverse foreign community which is very social. Of course, Tokyo is just an hour from Tsukuba, so if you want to go out nightclubbing, that’s the place. Tokyo is one of the world’s largest and busiest cities - there is no shortage of things to do there.</p>
<p>We are only in the 2nd year of the G30 program at the moment, so no-one has finished. However, our current students seem very happy. We have one girl from the US, and she told em she’s loving Tsukuba.</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p>Don’t make the mistake of selecting a college based purely on a particular program’s strength there.</p>
<p>Are you going to fit in there?</p>
<p>Will your degree be respected?</p>
<p>You can study Japanese at almost any 4 year university. Seriously consider the overall affect of the school before you decide to jump in.</p>
<p>Earlham offers a Business & Management major, which is unusual for an LAC. Plus it is famous for its both its Japanese language and its Japanese studies programs.</p>
<p>Exactly what i was tryin to do Qwetip, i wanna go to a good college, but im honestly more worried bout what location im going, not just what school.</p>
<p>and from what ive heard from multiple ppl i trust in my life, a degree is a degree unless its from an ivory. </p>
<p>While Tsukuba looks like a solid choice for schooling, i dont expect the campus life to be what i am looking for. but i greatly appreciate the idea and ill still keep it in the back of my mind.</p>
<p>You should be worried about more than just location.</p>
<p>For example, I made the mistake of going to Indiana University-Bloomington based solely on the strength of its undergraduate business program.</p>
<p>I arrived in Bloomington to find a campus where the teachers actually resent the students for their party lifestyle.</p>
<p>Schools are just different, don’t make the mistake of lumping them all together, Ivy or not.</p>
<p>Pitt also offers a summer Japanese program, so if you go there, you would be able to get a lot of the language requirements completed in the summer–and they give scholarships for the summer programs. Pitt’s Japanese language classes are very time intensive (five credits, but seven hours in class for the first four semesters). You might be able to test out of the first classes with your high school studies. Pitt also has business and engineering.</p>
<p>Wisconsin is a good choice with a very good business school and Japanese Studies. Also quite a large International Asian contingent.</p>
<p>Willamette University, a LAC in Salem, OR.</p>
<p>Willamette offers business?</p>
<p>See this 2009 Japan Foundation report on Business Japanese programs in the US:
[Breeze</a> #38](<a href=“http://www.jflalc.org/pub_breeze38.html]Breeze”>http://www.jflalc.org/pub_breeze38.html)</p>
<p>Hmmmm. Looked again. Willamette seems to offer a BA/MBA program so that it is an accelerated MBA – maybe not what the OP was seeking. Offers Japanese tho’!</p>
<p>I was thinking more about you today. If Tsukuba isn’t your thing, why not consider Temple University in Tokyo (a US university), or one of the private Unis here, where you can study business in English, while learning Japanese and being fully exposed to Japanese culture? For example,Waseda or Hitotsubashi are very well regarded.
[url=<a href=“http://www.tuj.ac.jp/default.html]Temple”>http://www.tuj.ac.jp/default.html]Temple</a> University, Japan Campus<a href=“Temple”>/url</a>
[url=<a href=“http://www.waseda.jp/top/index-e.html]WASEDA”>http://www.waseda.jp/top/index-e.html]WASEDA</a> University<a href=“Waseda”>/url</a>
[url=<a href=“http://www.hit-u.ac.jp/index-e.html]Hitotsubashi”>Hitotsubashi University]Hitotsubashi</a> University<a href=“Hitotsubashi”>/url</a></p>
<p>There are plenty of other universities in Tokyo which would suit your academic needs, and also give you some of the world’s best nightlife!</p>
<p>I think that the Temple program is the one where you earn dual degrees from Temple and the Japanese university, so it is recognized in both countries (I did not read the link which meay explain that !).</p>