Academic Year 2015 Entrance Ceremonies

Hitotsubashi University held entrance ceremonies for the academic year 2015 at Kanematsu Auditorium on April 2, 2015. 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: 1,029 students

Graduate: Master’s programs: 340 students; professional master’s programs: 178 students;

doctoral programs: 104 students

 

Many matriculating students and their families attended the ceremonies.

 

Ceremony for Undergraduate Students

• Opening
• Performance of Waltz of the Flowers from “The Nutcracker”(Tchaikovsky) by the Hitotsubashi University Orchestra
• Address by Koichi Tadenuma, 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 Craig Calhoun, president of The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

 

Ceremony for Graduate Students

• Opening
• Performance of Waltz, Op.34-1 (Chopin) by Takashi Yamada
• Address by Koichi Tadenuma, president of Hitotsubashi University
• Recitation and signing of the student oath by the representative of matriculating graduate students
• Closing