As a famous private university with strong strength, Kansai University has perfect educational and scientific research facilities. The campus environment, which enjoys the reputation of "the most beautiful university in Japan", makes every student proud. Almost all the buildings in the school adopt Spanish design, with beige walls and red tile roofs.
Every year around June 5438+ 10, Japan will publish many books introducing the latest situation and ranking of universities to help candidates correctly choose the universities that suit them (the university entrance examination in Japan is in February). Kansai University has maintained the top 15 in all kinds of rankings over the years, but it ranks the top 10 in the case of single subject literature. Although Japan's economy has been declining in recent years, the employment rate of Kansai University graduates has remained above 96%, so it has always been a popular school for candidates. By the way, in western Japan with Osaka and Kobe as the center, the five most famous universities are National Kyoto University, Osaka University and Kobe University, as well as private Kansai University and Tongshe University. The tuition fee of Kansai College is very high in private universities, and most of the students are rich children, so it is also a famous "aristocratic school". More than once, I saw students driving BMW Z3, Mercedes-Benz SLK to school, and even Ferrari F550, Porsche 9 1 1 Carrera. My mouth was really closed at that time.
After school, let's take a look at my business studies. Business is one of the earliest departments of Kansai University, and it and the later independent economics department are the most famous departments of Kansai University. Kansai University ranks 1 1 in Japan's "ranking of presidents of listed companies", with most students graduating from business. This is also an important reason why I chose to apply for the sales department. Another reason that attracts me is that both undergraduate and graduate students have courses. If you get excellent grades and finish all the credits in grade three, you can study for a master's degree directly, so you can get a master's degree in business administration within five years.
In the first year, business students should learn the basic knowledge of management, accounting, international trade and finance. At the same time, choose some subjects from education subjects such as law, psychology, international issues and environment. , so as to broaden their horizons and knowledge. Of course, foreign languages are also essential. Because of the great emphasis on practicality, business courses offer not only general English courses, but also specialized English courses such as business English, focusing on cultivating students' ability to solve practical problems. From the second grade, students should choose one of the six majors of management, accounting, finance, marketing, business intelligence and international trade as their main major according to their own interests and enter more detailed professional courses. Of course, if you are willing to study hard, you can also choose some other professional courses as your minor. In the third grade, I entered the most distinctive part of the business department: the seminar. You must choose a topic of interest and then apply to the responsible professor to join the seminar. There are many topics to choose from, as many as thirty or forty, but the condition is that it must be within your main professional scope. The number of people in a seminar usually does not exceed 20, which is convenient for teachers to guide and communicate with students. By answering and completing the teacher's questions, students can improve their ability to analyze and solve problems, and the team spirit among students in the same seminar cultivates their cooperative spirit.
Since Kansai University was founded by Americans, there has been a tradition of attaching importance to English teaching since its establishment. In Kansai University, the first foreign language of Japanese students is English, and the second foreign language is one of German, French and Chinese. The first foreign language of international students is Japanese, and the second foreign language is English, French, German and Chinese, not their mother tongue. If you want to further strengthen your English, you can also take the "Intensive Plan" selection exam. All the teachers in this course are doctors or masters of English. Their teaching level is very high, which is much more helpful to your English than ordinary English courses. If this is not enough for you, but you want to go up a storey still higher, then you must choose to study in an agreed university. Of course, not only universities in English-speaking countries, but also universities in French, German and China can be the targets of studying abroad. There are more than 30 universities that have academic exchange and international student exchange agreements with Kansai University, such as the University of Georgia, North Carolina State University, Oxford University, University of Toronto, University of Sydney, China Sun Yat-sen University and China Renmin University. Kansai University also accepts international students from these schools. I have met exchange students from Suzhou University and Sun Yat-sen University here. But they only stayed in Japan for one year and then returned to the embrace of the motherland, while I have to struggle for another four years!
Although I am satisfied with all aspects of Kansai University, there are also some headaches for me. This is a compulsory course for students of Kansai University, and it is also a compulsory course for all first-year students. By studying the Bible and looking at various problems in today's society from the perspective of Christianity, students can understand the essence of Christianity to a certain extent, and they can also understand and treat their own problems with the help of Christian thoughts. Besides weekly lecture notes, as part of the course, you should attend Christian services (chapels) at least twice a week. Each department has its own independent chapel, and the worship time is arranged between the first class and the second class for 30 minutes each time. To go to church, you should first listen to the pastor in the school read a Bible and then sing some hymns along with it. Then close your eyes and purify your mind, listen to him preaching and teaching there, and finally hear him say "Amen" and it's over. I often go to the chapel and sleep with my head down. When I hear "Amen", I stand up and leave. Well, it is an international joke to make an atheist believe in Christianity. But because attendance is recorded and included in the usual grades, I have to be patient.
Because Japanese universities all adopt the credit system, there are no fixed classes. You can graduate as long as you complete the required credits in four years. It is free for students to choose what to fix first and then what to fix. So there are relatively few opportunities to make friends in the course of class, and basically no one knows (except, of course, foreign languages and Christian courses as compulsory courses).
Seeing this, you will definitely ask, aren't Japanese universities boring? In fact, the extracurricular activities of Japanese universities are very colorful. Take Kansai University as an example, there are as many as sixty or seventy clubs and circles. In sports, there are more than 40 clubs such as baseball, American football, boxing, judo, skiing and mountaineering. In culture, there are more than 30 clubs such as light music, symphony, ballet, drama and photography. In addition, there are some accounting seminars, advertising seminars and so on composed of people who are keen on learning. In short, no matter what kind of hobbies you have, you can definitely find your own sky here, meet a group of people with the same hobbies as you, and spend four years in college together.
So, what about Japanese counterparts? Although the family conditions of Japanese students are better than ours, I have to admit that their independence is much stronger than mine. Japanese college students are generally doing part-time jobs more or less. Although the type of work and working hours vary from person to person, it is common to work two or three times a week for 5-6 hours each time. This part of the income has become the main source of daily expenses for Japanese college students. Accurately speaking, the independence of Japanese students is between China and the United States. In the United States, 18 years old began to earn his own living, completely independent of his family. In China, it is common for parents to pay all the tuition and living expenses before they graduate from college. In Japan, parents pay tuition and earn pocket money by working on their own. In my opinion, those peers who are going to ask their parents for money when they go to college should also work hard to earn money by themselves. Proper part-time job will not affect study, but it is a good social practice for college students who have not fully entered the society. When you buy something you have been longing for for for a long time with the reward of sweat, that kind of joy can't be expressed in any language. You can try if you don't believe me.