Keio SDM started the student exchange program with Delft University of Technology (TUD) last year, and is finalizing agreements to start exchanging students with Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and Politecnico di Milano (Polimi). Both are prestigious graduate schools in Europe and as their names suggest, (Department of Management, Technology and Economics at ETH and Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering at Polimi) they both integrate social and technical fields, just as SDM does. SDM’s prestige is growing through these exchanges of our top students.
In addition, SDM has agreed to exchange students with Institut National Des Sciences Appliquees de Toulouse in the field of safety and security. The revised agreement enables the two universities to exchange students in broader technical fields. In addition to European universities, SDM is currently in talks about possible partnerships with MIT and Purdue University in the US.
These universities ask for collaboration in research as well as education. SDM would like to collaborate with these foreign universities to provide support for SDM member organizations, such as visits for study and joint research. Especially, SDM would like to establish long term relationships with top-class universities such as MIT, Stanford University and ETH.