The Graduate School of Management established the Best Teacher Award since 2009 in order to confer an honor on the faculty member who provided the highest quality course in the year. Similarly, two winners are selected for the Best Teacher Award among from the part-time teachers apart from the above since 2019.
Professor Shige Makino (Faculty of Economics) and Associate Professor Rengyo are awarded the 15th Best Teacher Award. Besides, Adjunct Professor Shigeru Matsumoto and Adjunct Associate Professor Masahito Kato are also awarded the Best Teacher Award.

Right: Professor Norio Sawabe (Dean, Graduate School of Management)
【Successive Best Teacher Award Winner】
AY 2009/Assoc. Prof. Takashi Hikino, Assoc. Prof. Asli M Colpan
AY 2010/Assoc. Prof. William Baber, Assoc. Prof. Seiji Nozawa
AY 2011/Prof. Yasuo Sugiyama, Prof. Katsuji Ishihara
AY 2012/Assoc. Prof. Takashi Hikino, Assoc. Prof. Yoshiaki Kubota
AY 2013/Assoc. Prof. William Baber, Assoc. Prof. Yoshikazu Maegawa
AY 2014/Prof. Chihiro Suematsu, Prof. Yasuyuki Kato
AY 2015/Prof. Yasuo Sugiyama, Prof. Makoto Usui
AY 2016/Prof. Nobuyuki Isagawa, Assoc. Prof. Yutaka Yamauchi
AY 2017/Visiting Prof. Ant Bozkaya, Assoc. Prof. Yoshikazu Maegawa
AY 2018/Prof. Yasunaga Wakabayashi, Assoc. Prof. William Baber
AY 2019/Prof. Gautam Ray, Prof. Yasuo Sugiyama, Adjunct Prof. Shigeru Matsumoto, Visiting Lecturer Michele Griessmair
AY 2020/Prof. Naoki Wakabayashi, Prof. Tadao Kikuchi, Adjunct Prof. Makoto Usui, Part-time Lecturer Katsuhiro Sato
AY 2021/Prof. Asli M. Colpan, Prof. Takashi Mitachi, Part-time Lecturer Takehiro Matsumoto, Part-time Lecturer Hideki Kakinuma
AY 2022/Prof. Tomoki Sekiguchi, Prof. Masato Yodo, Adjunct Assoc. Prof. Mari Yoshida, Part-time Lecturer Kiyoshi Fujikawa