Academic Year 2013 Graduation Ceremonies
Hitotsubashi University held graduation ceremonies for the academic year 2013 at Kanematsu Auditorium on March 24, 2014. The ceremony for undergraduate students started at 10:00 a.m., and that for graduate students at 2:00 p.m. The number of degree recipients was as follows:
Undergraduate: 959 students (not including students who graduated in September)
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Held on a sunny day, the ceremonies were a beautiful occasion to mark the students’ departure to a new life.
Ceremony for Undergraduate Students
- Opening
- Performance of Liszt’s Liebestraume by Akemi Tadenuma
- Degree conferment to student representatives from each faculty and announcement of students with outstanding academic results
- Address by Susumu Yamauchi, president of Hitotsubashi University
- Remarks by the representative of degree recipients
- Congratulatory address by Tatsuo Wakabayashi, president of Mitsubishi Trust and Banking Corporation
- Singing of the university song
- Closing
Ceremony for Graduate Students
- Opening
- Performance of Schubert’s Impromptu by Akemi Tadenuma
- Degree conferment to the student representatives of master’s degree, professional master’s degree, and doctoral degree recipients, respectively
- Address by Susumu Yamauchi, 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