Civil Service Exam Preparation Course

Overview of Civil Service Exam Preparation Course

The Faculty of Policy and Information Studies offers a curriculum that allows students aiming to become civil servants to gradually learn the necessary knowledge by the fall semester of their third year.

Regular classes + extracurricular courses + study room "Regional Policy Research Group"

Regular classes to develop the qualities of civil servants

The Regional Policy Course has a curriculum that allows students to gradually learn the wide range of knowledge required for the civil service exam. This knowledge is also recognized as graduation credits.

First year
  • Introduction to administrative practice
  • Administrative Practice (Social Studies, Humanities, and Natural Sciences)
  • Special Topic on the Constitution
  • Legal Foundations
  • Special Topic in Economics
  • Special Lecture on Japanese History
  • World History Special Lecture
Second Year
  • Numerical Processing I & II
  • Administrative Practice (English)
  • Administrative documents
  • Administrative Writing Applications
  • Legal Studies
  • Civil Code
  • Administrative Law
  • Criminal Law
  • Microeconomics
  • Japanese Economy
  • Local Government Finance
  • Political Science
  • Sociology
  • Business Administration
Third Year
  • Numerical Processing Applications I and II
  • Administrative Practice Application (Social Studies, Humanities, and Natural Sciences) I and II
  • Special Lecture on Administrative Documents
  • Special Lecture on Policy Affairs
  • Macroeconomics
  • Public Administration
Fourth Year Teachers provide support for preparing for civil service exam interviews

*Subjects in bold are specific to civil service examinations.
*Students in the Media Information course can also take this course.

"Extracurricular courses" that you can learn while on campus

We will implement full-scale exam preparation in cooperation with a preparatory school for qualification exams for the contents of regular classes. Since we will focus on the important points from a vast number of subjects, you can study efficiently.

First year
  • Basic Mathematics Exercises
  • Basic Japanese Language Exercises
  • Mock exam
Second Year
  • Basic exercises in numerical processing
  • Basic exercises in text comprehension
  • Mock exam
Third Year
  • Numerical processing exercises
  • Text comprehension exercises
  • Social Science Seminar
  • Humanities Seminar
  • Natural Science Seminar
  • Microeconomics Seminar
  • Macroeconomics Seminar
  • Civil Law Seminar
  • Public Finance Seminar
  • Mock exam
  • Essay preparation
Fourth Year
  • Mock exam
  • Current affairs
  • Interview preparation

※Actual costs will be charged
*105 minutes per session
*Students in the Media Information course can also take this course.