Musical Arts (Master’s program)

The Graduate School of Art was established in 1951 as a master’s program in Literary Arts, but has since expanded to a full-scale comprehensive graduate school of the arts that currently offers master’s programs in Literary Arts, Image Arts, Fine Art and Design, Musical Arts, and Performing Arts. While the emphasis is on education in the various departments, the School is also engaged in high-level research. The doctoral program consolidates all the arts into a single field, making possible even deeper research into the arts than at the master’s level.

Apart from research and creation within each specialized field, we also encourage collaboration with adjacent fields and aim for an understanding of the arts from a broad perspective. In particular, the doctoral program lends equal weight to the theory and history of each of the arts and to studies of artistic expression, and we instruct our students to conduct balanced research between theory and expression in order to obtain a doctoral degree.

Nihon University, celebrating its 120th anniversary, originated from Nihon Law School, which was established in 1889. Since its foundation, the university has maintained its forefront at the forefront of university education and research with a global perspective and an enterprising spirit.

As an attractive university with a wide range of fields of study, Nihon University has been involved in not only education and research, but also health care, lifelong education, and numerous other activities contributing to the development of society.