Academic Year 2014 Entrance Ceremonies

Hitotsubashi University held entrance ceremonies for the academic year 2014 at Kanematsu Auditorium on April 3, 2014. The ceremony for undergraduate students started at 10:00 a.m., and that for graduate students at 13:30 p.m. The number of matriculating students was as follows:

 

Undergraduate: 1,012 students

Graduate: ???????? Master’s programs: 349 students; professional master’s programs: 171 students;

???????????????? ? doctoral programs: 101 students

 

Although it was a rainy day, many matriculating students and their families attended the ceremonies.

 

Ceremony for Undergraduate Students

• Opening
• Performance of the fourth movement of Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 by the Hitotsubashi University Orchestra
• Address by Susumu Yamauchi, president of Hitotsubashi University
• Recitation and signing of the student oath by the representative of matriculating undergraduate students
• Singing of the university song
• Closing
• Commemorative lecture by Toshinori Shigeie, former ambassador to the Republic of Korea

 

Ceremony for Graduate Students

• Opening
• Performance of Schubert’s Impromptu by Akemi Tadenuma
• Address by Susumu Yamauchi, president of Hitotsubashi University
• Recitation and signing of the student oath by the representative of matriculating graduate students
• Closing