According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Working Group has made it an urgent issue to improve the labor productivity of each individual in fields where specialization is required in order to achieve sustainable development in Japan, where the birthrate is declining and the population is aging rapidly. He pointed out the problem that the graduate school has not been able to provide an educational program that can meet diverse needs due to insufficient cooperation with society.

　As for the future direction, it is necessary to solve these problems, enhance the function of training highly specialized professionals, review the graduate school education including the ideal way of the master's course, and grasp the needs of the regions where no professional graduate school is established. It is supposed to be.

As a concrete countermeasure,
■ Establish a professional graduate school that meets certain standards for training global human resources who are active globally and regional human resources who solve regional issues, and establish a new certification system.
■ Consider having a required faculty member of a professional graduate school concurrently serve as a full-time faculty member of another course in order to strengthen cooperation with other courses.
■ Establish an advisory board consisting of experts from related industries
■ Get participation from local communities, governments, related companies, etc. in creating curriculum
-And so on.

Reference: [Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology]A new type of graduate school required by the times It is a professional graduate school-Professional Graduate School-