Kansai Gaidai University

There are a lot of courses concerning arts and management, i would prefer more financial one.

the problem in kansai gaidai university is that we don t have a lot of class with japanese students

Weighing too heavily on business, not enough focus on Japanese language. Most lecture courses don't relate to language learning at all.

More class options, more focus on the language aspect.

Not really.

If you plan on taking advanced language courses, you will be studying A LOT.

Be aware: on paper, these classes look quite interesting, but many of the teachers are utter clowns. The best professors in the afternoon are Hlavatsch, Scott, Tracy, and Kenney. Stay away from all anthropology courses. You have been hereby warned. One of the teachers is boring, the other is flat-out insulting and probably should be fired. Japanese professors run the gamut but you don't get to choose those. There are six levels of Japanese language. 1-3 are fine, but starting at level 4 the workload is oppressive. Not enough emphasis is placed on speaking- which is exactly where we are deficient at the intermediate level!

These are fully contingent on your professor. The Japanese classes are very strictly regimented, so the professor can't go back and "reteach" a lesson the class has trouble with. The afternoon classes are too loose, leaving certain professors to abuse the privilage and clown about.

Many of the English courses are not really good and exams are often a joke like the teacher is not even in the classroom and everybody is copying haha. The Japanese courses are better as you learn something useful for your everyday life as speaking Japanese helps so much in Japan but the level is not that good compared to other universities and school in Japan. Still much better than back home though.

All the courses would just need to be a notch higher quality and more serious... but to be honest, are you really coming to Japan to spend your time studying? That would kill your experience in this amazing country, so I guess it is better like it is now.. not much studying, lots of partying.

The Electives often sound way more interesting and challenging in the course descriptions than they really are. I heard some classes are better than the others, but mine, in terms of quality and difficulty, were basically a joke. One of my prof basically told us he's teaching here simply because he couldn't get a job back in the US. If you go to a first-tier school in the US or anywhere else in the world, you will probably find the classes fairly disappointing. Japanese classes were challenging and the profs were extremely friendly and helpful.

Ask people who have been here about classes you plan to take. Course descriptions are not reliable at all.