Each of the five divisions of the Komazawa Graduate School has a Master's and a Doctoral Degree program.

Requirements for completion of the Master's Degree program:

1. A minimum of two years residence
2. A minimum of 30 credits
3. Tutorial training, a final written Master's Degree examination, and a final oral examination

Requirements for completion of the Doctoral Program:

1. A minimum of three years residence subsequent to graduation from the Master's Degree program
2. Tutorial training
3. A written examination on the topic of the doctoral dissertation
4. An oral examination
5. Highly advanced students are to gain four credits, staying at least one more year in the Doctoral Degree course
6. The Doctoral Degree is awarded to a student who has passed the final examination and has passed appraisal of the thesis for the Doctoral Degree after a period of more than three years of courses and more than twelve credits of thesis guidance 
7. A student who has finished the three year Doctoral Degree course and completed more than twenty credits may, as a student near completion of the doctoral degree course, leave university residence, unless the student has submitted the thesis for the doctoral degree

Requirements for completion of the Graduate Division of Legal Research and Training (Law School)

Three years is required for graduation from Law School. However, two years is a minimum for graduation for students who were admitted into the program intended for graduates of the four-year Law Department. Ninety-four credits are required for graduation, but for students to graduate from the Law Department program, 30 credit hours of courses must be completed in the first year of Law School, and they must acquire a minimum of 64 credit hours of course work. The required courses and the number of credits for graduation vary with the field, but students can graduate when all the requirements are fulfilled.

｜GRADUATE DIVISION OF ARTS AND SCIENCES (I)｜
｜GRADUATE DIVISION OF ARTS AND SCIENCES (II) ｜
｜GRADUATE DIVISION OF ECONOMICS｜
｜GRADUATE DIVISION OF COMMERCE｜
｜GRADUATE DIVISION OF LAW｜
｜GRADUATE DIVISION OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION｜
｜GRADUATE DIVISION OF LEGAL RESEARCH AND TRANING（LAW SCHOOL ）｜

GRADUATE DIVISION OF ARTS AND SCIENCES (I)

The curriculum in Buddhism is a highly developed program of courses which research the general teachings of Buddhism and, in particular, the teachings of the Soto school, on which this university is founded. Every year the professors and students engage in animated discussion about the nature of Buddhism, what its main characteristics are, and how it should be construed to deal with modern times. Exegesis of the classical Buddhist texts is conducted in their original Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, and Chinese versions. The curriculum concentrates especially on the Buddhist Master Dogen, who was the founder of the Soto school, and the Buddhist Master Keizan, who developed the basis of the religious brotherhood. From their time to the present there has been an unending succession of superlative scholars and religious leaders in the Soto school.

Many of these scholars and religious leaders have exercised a formative role in the Buddhist world of Japan. Dogen's main work, Shobogenzo, is renowned as one of the most difficult religious texts in the history of Japanese Buddhism. Many of the students enrolled in this graduate program struggle day and night trying to decipher this text.

The graduate program of Buddhism offers a master's degree program and a doctoral degree program. The master's degree program was authorized on the first of May, 1952, and the doctoral program was subsequently authorized on the twenty-second of March, 1957. These programs have a long history and constitute the nucleus of the university.

There are seventy chairs of Buddhism for the master's degree program and twenty-three chairs provided in addition for the doctoral program. Of all graduate schools in Japan, Komazawa University has the most substantial professorial staff for Buddhism. Especially in the concentration here referred to as the science of Buddhism, truly world-famous professors conduct tuition in the history of Indian Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Chinese Buddhism, and the divergent Chinese Buddhist doctrines of the Sanron school, Tendai school, and Kegon school. Komazawa Graduate School furthermore occupies the first place among all Japanese graduate schools for its scholarly tradition and leading research in the Buddhist Master Dogen, the history of the Zen school in China, and the doctrines of Zen Buddhism. The field of religious anthropology at Komazawa Graduate School has also reached a position of preeminence in Japan, such that graduates from other universities who want to specialize in this field often transfer to Komazawa University. In addition to the supremacy of our teaching faculty, our library possesses many priceless original texts and scholarly works on the doctrines of Buddhism and Zen.

The outstanding characteristics and tradition of our graduate school have attracted students and scholars throughout the world. At present, for instance, students from Brazil, Taiwan, and the Republic of Korea are enrolled in our graduate school. In the past, students and scholars from China, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, The United States, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Finland, Denmark, Peru, Australia, and Ghana have attended our graduate school. Of these foreign scholars several have received doctoral degrees; most of them have thereupon returned to their home countries and taken leading positions in the research of Buddhism in major universities or research institutes.

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