Comparative Study on Financial Foundation of Graduate Education in the U.S and Japan

研究结果表明，研究生教育有"自立型“、"研究依赖型”和“组织依赖型”三种典型类型，如果把这三种类型看成是一个三角形，那么在三角形的边界线内就有大量的研究生教育。我们还讨论了本科生对研究生的财政贡献、研究生和专业学位学生之间助学金分配的差异以及研究生课程的财务管理由每所学校分散而不是由中央管理的做法。研究结果对日本研究生教育的启示。

The findings indicated that there are three typical types of graduate programs, namely 'a self-supporting type', 'a research-dependent type' and 'an organization-dependent type', and if these types are thought of as being joined up in the form of a triangle, a large variety of graduate programs are located within the triangle boundary lines. We also discussed financial contribution that undergraduate programs make to graduate programs, differences in the allocation of student aid as between research degree students and professional degree students, and the practice of decentralizing the financial management practices of graduate programs by each school, rather than having them run by a central administration. Implications of the findings for Japanese graduate education were presented.