GSIM fully utilizes its key advantage of a campus located in a local rural area. Students and faculty live all the time on campus obligatorily for the first year if they belong to the two year program, whereas students in the one year programs are expected to live on campus unless special permission is granted upon request. With a campus having students coming from around 35 countries every year, students are exposed to a multicultural and multinational environment.
The GSIM Teaching/Learning Model is complemented by eight major components as  outlined in the Figure below. Though there are still many traditional lecture type classes,  these classes include interactive activities such as student presentations analyzing companies and other organizations both from inside and outside Japan. For the core courses, teaching assistants are recruited from among students to supervise the learning of students and oversee exams. The Case Method is being increasingly used both for qualitative and quantitative courses. Students are challenged with intensive group work, 4-5 guest speakers every academic term, 3 or 4 major field trips a year plus several short study tours by class instructors. Carefully designed opportunities for volunteer/social work assure continuous engagement and exposure.