Implementation and evaluation of education to foster students' practical IT skills in University of Tsukuba Graduate School

Fostering high level IT professional students is a strong social demand. Actions to address this have been carried out continuously at Graduate School, University of Tsukuba since 2007. In this paper, an overview of the main action and its expected effect are shown, and we evaluate the result of the action from the skill diagnosis in our continuous monitoring activity and the student questionnaires. Some suggestions are shown to make it possible to continue activities to foster high level IT professional students in universities in future.