- Nanjing University Business School
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Nanjing University Business School (NUBS, Chinese：南京大學商學院, Hanyu Pinyin: Nánjīng Dàxué Shāngxuéyuàn, colloquially 南大商學院, Nándà Shāngxuéyuàn) is the school of business of Nanjing University, which founded the first professional Chinese business school. NUBS's disciplinary areas consist of economics and management.
According to the report released in 2009 on class 1 disciplines overall level evaluation during 2007~2009 by China Academic Degree & Graduate Education Development Center of The Ministry of Education, NUBS ranks within top 5 nationwide in both theoretical economics and business management, while business management ranks No.1 in southern China.
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History
Nanjing University Business School dates back to 1902 when the courses of economics and commerce were provided. The first book of The History of Chinese Commerce was finished by the cultural academic leader Liu Yizheng (柳詒徵) who was a faculty member during the era. In 1917 the faculty of business was founded. Yang Xingfo (楊杏佛) was the first dean. Then in 1921 it was moved to Shanghai and extended to become Shanghai Commerce University affiliated to National Southeastern University, as the university business school initially with six departments including General Commerce, Business Administration, Accounting, Banking & Financing, International Trade, and International Transportation. It's the first modern professional university business school in China. National Southeastern University renamed National Central University in 1928 and again in 1949 renamed Nanjing University. The Central University business school became an indepdendent school in 1932 and later it became Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. In the mean time, there's the Department of Economics under the division of social sciences in the main campus of Nanjing, which was originated in 1921 and the first director was Xiao Chunjin (蕭純錦). After 1978 Nanjing University reestablished faculties of economics and business management. Those faculties formed the International Business School of Nanjing University in 1988, and in 2000 the school was renamed Nanjing University Business School and at the time the school had five departments: Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, and International Economics & Trade. In 2006 the business school was divided into two collaborative interdependent sub-schools: School of Economics, comprising Departments of Economics, Finance, Industrial Economics, and International Economics & Trade, and School of Management, comprising Departments of Business Administration, Accounting, Marketing, Human Resources Management, etc.
NUBS launched MBA training project firstly in 1987 and start MBA education in Singapore in 1993. NUBS start to provide formal MBA (Mater of Business Administration) program in Nanjing main campus since 1994. In 1995, the school dean Zhou Sanduo (周三多) led a team to work out the MBA entrance examination blueprint which was put into effect in 1997 and since then MBA candidates need to take part in the nationwide united MBA Entrance Exam[1]. In 2002, NUBS began to provide formal EMBA (Executive Master of Business Administration) program.
Composition
Nanjing University Business School consists of two sub-schools: school of management and school of economics.
- Management School
- Department of Business Administration
- Department of Human Resource Management
- Department of Marketing
- Department of Electronic Commerce
- Department of Accounting
- Economics School
- Department of Economics
- Department of Industrial Economics
- Department of International Economics & Trading
- Department of Finance
Education and training programs
The following courses provided by NUBS have been recognized as National Excellent Courses:
- (General) Management (管理学), chief professor: Chen Chuanming (陈传明)
- Human Resources Management (人力资源管理), chief professor: Zhao Shuming (赵曙明)
- Operations Management (运营管理), chief professor: Yang Dongtao (杨东涛)
- International Finance (国际金融学), chief professor: Pei Ping (裴平)
Programs provided by NUBS include:
- Undergraduate Programs
- Master Programs
- Doctoral Programs
The follows are practical professional programs:
- MBA Program
- EMBA Program
- MPAcc (The Master of Professional Accounting)
- EDP (The Executive Development Programs)
Other academic activities
- International Symposium on Multinational Business Management (企业跨国经营国际研讨会): The conference was held every three year a time, and the latest one, the Sixth Symposium was held in June, 2008
Alumni
Notable alumni include:
- Xu Boyuan (徐柏園), financier, former Central Bank Governor, Ministry of Finance, R.O.C.. He's the founder of Chinese central bank system.
- Wang Zhixin (王志莘), banker, financier, the first General Manager of former Shanghai Stock Exchange
- Yang Bi-li (楊必立), the pioneer guru of management education in Chinese community, the initiator of Chinese MBA education.
- Hsing Mu-huan (邢慕寰), economist, the first Director of Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica.
- Chen Deming (陳德銘), the Minister of Commerce, P.R.C.
Notes and references
External links
Categories:- Nanjing University
- Business schools in China
- Management School
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