Graduate Program

Master of Business Administration

Take your career to the next level with an MBA from an accredited American university in Tokyo.

MBA graduates are in high demand. Take your career to the next level with an MBA from an accredited American university in Tokyo.

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$120,000
Median salary for American MBA holders
More than $50,000 (¥7.3M) higher than the median bachelor’s degree holder, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council.

2 years

Six trimesters

36 credits

To graduate

In-person

Evening classes

3 starts/ year

Jan · May · Sep

Program Outline

A Lakeland University Japan MBA integrates research, case studies, and quantitative analysis to build a deeper understanding of the economic challenges facing businesses today. Students in this program develop the critical managerial skills needed to analyze the legal and social systems in which businesses operate, construct strategic plans using cutting edge data interpretation techniques, and communicate their findings effectively and efficiently.

Program Outcome

MBA graduates are equipped to motivate employees through strong interpersonal skills, and achieve business objectives while consistently demonstrating ethical, professional, and collaborative behaviors. This comprehensive training prepares students to drive value creation and lead responsibly in a global and evolving workplace.

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Testimonials

Hear from our faculty
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At Lakeland University Japan, we offer a unique crossroads of American business education and Japanese market insights. The sheer diversity in our classrooms is our greatest asset. As faculty, our goal is to cultivate an environment where every student’s distinct background enriches the group dialogue, ultimately building a tight-knit, powerful global network that stays with them long after graduation.

Dr. Eliud Kiprop

Faculty, MBA

Hear from our students
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Choosing the MBA program at Lakeland University Japan has been a game-changer for my career. Earning an accredited U.S. degree while living and studying in Tokyo gives me a massive competitive edge. The curriculum is deeply practical, focusing on real-world case studies and strategic problem-solving. But the best part is the tight-knit, international community. Collaborating with peers from all over the world has completely broadened my global business perspective.

Raven Garcia

MBA Student from USA

Completing your MBA at Lakeland University Japan

Lakeland University Japan is a trimester university – it holds three terms per academic year, accepting new graduate students at the start of each term:

  • January (Spring Term)
  • May (Summer Term)
  • September (Fall Term)

The MBA requires 36 credits to graduate. Students can expect to graduate in 6 terms (two years).

Compulsory Courses

A practical treatment of the process of business decision-making using quantitative methods, tools, and techniques. Topics covered include hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, sampling, probability analysis, proportions, regression analysis, and interval estimation.

This course incorporates the tools and logic of microeconomic analysis together with quantitative and statistical methods. The principal focus is on understanding and predicting economic behavior of consumers, firms, and industries through product line and industry modeling and model estimation.

Designed to provide a broad awareness of the interrelated concepts of systems, information, decision making, controls and accounting, this course covers the related reports and documents generated by information systems and provides an understanding of computerized and non-computerized information and control system tasks.

An overview of the integration of pricing, distribution, promotion and product differentiation policies used in planning and decision making. The integration of marketing with other business functions is emphasized, along with its socio-economic implications. The emergence of e-commerce as a marketing strategy is also considered.

At an advanced level this course deals with the basic concepts, the interrelationships of math models, and design and process capability. It is further concerned with flow processes as related to material flows, location of facilities, and product-line design. The design and management of capacity; standards in work design; production and quality, including total quality management, production and inventory control; and management planning models are also covered.

A study of the impact of a firm’s social, legal, regulatory, political, ethical, and international environments upon its objectives to provide a general understanding of the major relationships between business firms and their stakeholders, to develop key concepts and principles that can be used by managers as they cope with the various stakeholders, and to provide some practice in using analytical tools by applying them to selected current problems and issues confronting business.

This is a capstone course designed to allow the student to integrate knowledge obtained from previous courses with personal experience. A student-centered approach provides opportunity for practice and experimentation in competitive strategy formulation. Emphasis is on the conversion of the vision of executive intuition into definite plans that can be operationally implemented in each functional business area. Strategy support systems are used to assist the student in making the transition from a change-resistant operations approach to a change-oriented and future-oriented approach.

This course presents ways to increase the probabilities of accomplishing successful change, maximizing desired results, and improving competitive position on a sustainable basis. This course not only enables its participants to define organizational effectiveness, but also to develop a model most appropriate to an organization’s unique characteristics and situational realities, incorporate organizational effectiveness concepts into the management practices and culture of the organization, and use organizational effectiveness as an organizational learning strategy.

Application of financial theory and advanced techniques to the managerial decisions of the business firm. Topics covered include risk, valuation, capital structure, mergers and acquisitions, investment decisions and international finance.

Tuition at a glance

Plan your investment

¥70,000

Per credit

¥508,000

Per term (full load)

¥3,145,000

Estimated total (36 credits)

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