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.

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 related to management. 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 either KUT campus (Kami city), Eikokuji campus (Kochi city), or Tokyo. The subjects offered in the Entrepreneur Engineering Course are also beneficial for students who are enrolled in other courses, so we recommend that they too take this course.

The Social System Management Course was established in 2004 within the Infrastructure Systems Engineering Course as a program for mid-career professionals, and was reorganized as an independent course in 2010. The people work for public sectors, construction companies, consultant companies and education and research organizations get together and study the theory and practice of project management that shall be required for both domestic and international places. It has been understood that infrastructure must be public facilities. Infrastructure consists of not only public facilities (hard infrastructures) but also social systems (soft infrastructures) and natural facilities and environment (natural infrastructures). Based on the correlation among these 3 kinds of infrastructures, students in this school will study the management theories and practices required for both in domestic and international places. In this course many studies will be conducted related to infrastructures not only from engineering but also social sciences. The course will accept people not only coming from engineering but also administrative field.