Academic Year 2016 Entrance Ceremonies

Hitotsubashi University held entrance ceremonies for the academic year 2016 at Kanematsu Auditorium on April 2, 2016. The ceremony for undergraduate students started at 10:00 a.m., and that for graduate students at 14:00 p.m. The number of matriculating students was as follows:

 

Undergraduate: 1,014 students

Graduate: Master’s programs: 345 students; Doctoral programs: 95 students; Professional school programs: 172 students

 

Many matriculating students and their families attended the ceremonies.

 

Ceremony for Undergraduate Students

• Opening
• Performance of Prelude to “The Mastersingers of Nuremberg” ( Wagner) 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 Bruce Miller, Australian Ambassador to Japan

 

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