Two different paths to start learning economics
Students at the faculty of economics spend their first and second years at our Hiyoshi campus, where they learn liberal arts and the basics of economics. The curriculum at Hiyoshi involves two distinct paths: Type A (deductive, with focus on economic theory and mathematics) and Type B (inductive, with focus on contemporary and historical economic evidence). Both prepare students for the more specialised and advanced study in their third and fourth years at our Mita campus.
There are three reasons for this separation into Type A and Type B during the first two years of study. First, both the deductive and inductive approaches are essential in learning to think logically using economics. Second, this separation allows students to start their learning in an approach most familiar to them, increasing the students’ motivation and productivity. Third, students from both types of curriculum go on to attend classes at Mita with deductive as well as inductive orientations, which creates a synergy.
Students thus spend four years learning both the deductive and inductive methods with varying emphasis on the two, to graduate with the comprehensive skill to think logically using economics.









