Faculty of Real Estate Science
Meikai University Japan

Real Estate Markets and Development in Europe

Meikai University is located in Chiba District in the outskirts of Tokyo and has established itself in the past thirteen years as one of the leading private Japanese Universities. It was founded in 1970 as the Josai Dental University and later renamed Meikai University. As well as the usual Faculties, the University has established agreements with a number of overseas Universities including the University of Cambridge. Meikai was the first Japanese University to have a Faculty of Real Estate which was established in April 1992 – the then CILI Director, Dr Derek Nicholls, gave the inaugural lecture in their new building in 1993.

THE PROGRAMME

This will be the 10th year that Cambridge International Land Institute (www.cili.org.uk) has provided the programme for Meikai University, which is part of the MSc in Real Estate & Business degree. There are usually about 30 students on the course, accompanied by Professor Ogawa who is Head of the programme in Meikai and another member of the Faculty staff. Dr William Seabrooke, who is the Director of CILI and also Director of Studies in Land Economy for Fitzwilliam College where he is a Fellow leads the 11-day programme. The Course Administrator, Sophie Bothamley, also accompanies the course throughout the 11 days and the Course Tutors report to her. The course starts in Cambridge with a mixture of lectures, visits and cultural experiences. It then moves to Scotland (Edinburgh) via Norfolk and York and the students' one unscheduled day is taken in Edinburgh. The course ends with 3 days in London. Throughout the course the students will be working on a project created as part of their MSc degree and on the final day they will present to a panel, which will include Professor Ogawa and Dr Seabrooke.