Three doctoral students became the first to complete the Joint Supervision Program. This program, which is part of Waseda’s Top Global University Project for international cooperative education, is designed for students studying energy and nanomaterials with goals to establish a joint degree program in the field in the future.

In the program, doctoral students are under the guidance of two supervisors from both the home and host institutions. The students in the program conduct research with mutual consultations from the two supervisors. They are also required to spend more than 3 months at their host university, and publish co-authorship papers with both supervisors. Furthermore, the supervisor from their host institution sits in as one of examiners during the student’s doctoral dissertation defense. Upon completion of the program, the students receive a certificate issued under the name of both university presidents. At present, Waseda University has established the Joint Supervision Program with Monash University, Korea University and the University of Bonn.