Stressing academic work as a composite of disciplines, the KUT graduate school consists of only one department so as to allow students acquire a broad view of engineering. This reflects the university's intention to cultivate people with a broad perspective, open to various points of view, and to avoid fragmentation into narrow fields of study.

We consider it important educationally that the undergraduate and graduate schools work together; this is advantageous for both schools. We view engineering as one system, a systematic combination of various fields. For this reason we link undergraduate education, in which students learn technology from a macrocosmic perspective, and graduate school education, which is centered around cutting edge technology recently spawned by tangential scientific fields. This is the systematic basis for our education methodology.

We provide not only engineering courses but also foundation courses in mathematics and science and communications courses aimed at improving students' technical English communication ability. These foundation courses provide students with the necessary background for graduate school study. Some lectures and tutorial research primarily given in the doctoral program are conducted in English, when necessary for foreign students.

In order to promote the development of Japanese industry, it is essential to develop technology and subsequently establish new industries centered around that technology. In this scenario, workers in each industry should be able to identify and define the market related to new technology; this calls for entrepreneurial skills and energy, fundamental to the creation of a new organization or venture business which can realize technology commercially. It is with this in mind that KUT's graduate school provides the Entrepreneur Engineering Course, which has no equivalent or predecessor in the undergraduate school. This course is intended mainly for engineers who are working as leaders or instructors in business. Course offerings include global management theory and information. We also offer courses dealing with the relationship between modern technology and management for managers of technology and engineering enterprises. This program is conducted solely on weekends. Students take part in virtual discussions and lectures in remote classrooms in Tokyo and Osaka in addition to their activities on the KUT campus in Kochi. The subjects offered in this course are also beneficial for students who are enrolled in other courses, so we recommend that they take this course as well.