Career Support for Students
The Career Support Office provides support for job-hunting activities so that each student can decide on a career path that suits his or her aptitude.
We provide employment assistant service from lower grades, so please consul with the office regardless of your grade level.
We also provide support for international students, students with disabilities, and students with special needs according to their circumstances.
In order to promote efforts to develop students’ career visions, the School of Science and Technology and the Faculty of Informatics conduct PBL learning (Problem/Project Based Learning) with the cooperation of local companies and other organizations.
For internships, we provide matching and application support for companies that wish to cultivate socially necessary and practical skills, as well as preliminary information sessions, practical training courses, and post-training debriefing sessions for current students.
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Career Development for Doctoral Students
Gunma University operates the “Next generation Gunma Induction Doctoral
Program for Social Innovation Relay (Next-GIP)” which selects outstanding doctoral
students, supports them with Research Encouragement stipend (equivalent to living
expenses) and Research expenses, and provides career development through a
diverse curriculum.
The program offers seven competencies that categorize researchers’ human abilities
into three areas of “research,” “interpersonal relations,” and “self-actualization,”
and eight new contents corresponding to these competencies to produce human
resources who can be active in various fields, including government offices and
entrepreneurship.
Next generation Gunma Induction Doctoral Program for Social Innovation Relay（Next-GIP）
Promoting local employment for international students
“Glocal Hatara-Kurasu Gunma Project (GHKG)” provides students with career development program in cooperation with local companies and local government, so that students can actively pursue their career vision of ”living and working in Gunma after graduation. The program offers students 250 hours of “career education,” “communication education,” and “mid- to long-term internships” as an integrated program. Students can participate in this program beyond the barriers of faculty/graduate school, nationality/region, and academic year. The program has produced remarkable results, such as the regional retention rate of international students rising from 10% to 60% in five years. In FY2021, the program was selected for the first time in Japan by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as an “Educational Program to Promote Employment of International Students”.