By extensively utilizing a studio-teaching format, the IGSI trains students to gain useful knowledge of Civil Engineering, which they put to actual use when they confront various different urban problems in emerging and developing countries. All lectures, studio classes and consultations on master’s thesis will be conducted in English. The course is offered not just to Japanese students but also to foreign students in general. The IGSI thus functions as a foreign-student teaching arm of YNU Graduate School of Urban Innovation.

This program was established in 1995 with the receipt of a grant from a special scholarship program funded by the Japanese Government for government officers from developing countries of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank). The program examines approaches to infrastructure management at all levels from the planning of infrastructure to its construction and operation while bearing in mind the welfare of the local population and preservation of the environment. A new cohort began in October 2016 at the Graduate School of Urban Innovation.

The double degree program hereby agreed to offer the students of each university the opportunity to study as regular students at the host institution, leading to the award of degrees from both institutions.

The Graduate School of Urban Innovation concluded the Double Degree Program agreement with School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Graduate School on August, 2012.

The Graduate School of Urban Innovation concluded the Double Degree Program agreement with the Graduate School of Agriculture, National University of Asunción on March, 2015.

The Graduate School of Urban Innovation concluded the Double Degree Program agreement with the Faculty of Infrastructure Engineering and School of Architecture and Fine Arts, Dalian University of Technology on December, 2015.

The Graduate School of Urban Innovation concluded the Double Degree Program agreement with the University of Transport and Communications on June, 2018.

The Graduate School of Urban Innovation concluded the Double Degree Program agreement with the University of The University of DANANG – University of Science and Technology on December, 2018.

The Graduate School of Urban Innovation concluded the Double Degree Program agreement with the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University on March, 2022.