Competition between Professional and Existing Schools, Ratio of Professional Researcher Teachers and Professional Teachers Years of Experience: The Case of Japan

Abstract

In this study, we analyzed the competition between professional universities and research universities. Learning in master's and doctoral courses is more academically advanced than in undergraduate education but less practical for business people. Therefore, professional graduate schools were established An MBA provides both theory and practice for business people. Professional schools aim to produce graduates who can be active in the business field after they are awarded a degree. On the other hand, with the advancement of digital technology and knowledge in recent years, professional schools that award professional degrees require a certain percentage of learning time to be used for practical learning. Thus, there is less time to study theoretical subjects compared to research universities that award research degrees. Therefore, graduates in some disciplines do not have sufficient knowledge. This tendency is particularly strong in the information processing field. In business, the appropriate proportion of practical and theoretical education varies by field. In general, it is unclear in the business field whether a higher percentage of practical education is desirable in the long term.

In Japan, a certain period of business experience is required as a qualification for admission to a professional graduate school. Therefore, the average enrolled student is in their 30s. Since the average master's program student at a research university is in their 20s, it is highly likely that research universities and professional graduate schools have not had a strong competitive relationship. However, since the entrance qualifications of professional universities will be the same as the entrance qualifications of research universities beginning in in 2020, it is expected that research and professional universities will develop a competitive relationship. Further, as the number of students in their 30s enrolled in master's courses is currently increasing, research universities and professional graduate schools are becoming competitive.

In this study, referring to the above situation, we considered a model for finding the optimal ratio of practitioner and researchers from the supply side from the supply side to maximize the of educational and research activity by universities. This demonstrates how the number of professional schools and research schools would change through perfect competition. The short expiration date of the educational content provided by practitioner teachers was included in the model.

The main conclusion is that there will be an expansion of professional schools and a decline of research universities. Additionally, if researchers do not promote their research results to prospective students, research universities and research activity will decline. Without the proper replacement of practitioner teacher, the global economy will be unable to achieve long-term economic growth because curricula term economic growth are not properly structured even with short-term economic growth and an increase in the number of professional universities.