Academic Year 2016 Graduation Ceremonies

Hitotsubashi University held graduation ceremonies for the academic year 2016 at Kanematsu Auditorium on March 21, 2017. The number of degree recipients was as follows:
 

Undergraduate: 944 students (not including students who graduated in September)

Graduate: Master’s programs: 294 students; professional master’s programs: 227 students;　doctoral programs: 45 students;

 

Ceremony for Undergraduate Students

• Opening
• Performance of Ouverture from Partita No.4 in D major BWV828 (J. S. Bach) by Takashi Yamada
• Degree conferment to student representatives from each faculty and announcement of students with outstanding academic results
• Address by Koichi Tadenuma, president of Hitotsubashi University
• Remarks by the representative of degree recipients
• Congratulatory address by Masatsugu Nagato, President & CEO, Director and Representative Executive Officer, JAPAN POST HOLDINGS Co., Ltd.
• Singing of the university song
• Closing

 

Ceremony for Graduate Students

• Opening
• Performance of Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (F. Liszt) by Takashi Yamada
• Degree conferment to the student representatives of master’s degree, professional master’s degree, and doctoral degree recipients, respectively
• Address by Koichi Tadenuma, president of Hitotsubashi University
• Remarks by the representative of master’s degree recipients
• Remarks by the representative of professional master’s degree recipients
• Remarks by the representative of doctoral degree recipients
• Closing