MBA Online

We invite applications from October onwards for our annual intake which starts in the following August. The capacity for a typical Shenzhen part-time MBA intake is 60.

Making an Application
Application can be completed through our online application form. Simply register as a user and you could take as much time as you need to complete the application before the deadline.

Your application should include:1.
Completed online application form, including essay
2. Two reference forms or equivalent reference letters: one from your supervisor, the other from a professor of your UG university
3. Diploma Certificate
4. Degree Certificate
5. Academic transcripts
6. GMAT score report
7. TOEFL/IETLS score report (if applicable)
8. HK$500 application fee

We accept xerox or fax copies of (3) to (7) at the application stage.

Application Fee
The application fee is HK$500 (US$ 64) and can be paid by:1. Credit card as indicated on the online application form; or
2. Cash deposit to HKUST Hang Seng Bank account number 024 262 324999 014; or
3. Bank draft made payable to “The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology”

The original pay-in slip in (2) and bank draft in (3) should be couriered to the HKUST MBA Program Shenzhen Office. The fee is non-refundable. (Please visit the page “Contact us” for the mailing address of our Shenzhen Office)

Admissions Timetable
Admissions for 2009 intake operates on the following timeline:Phase Application Deadline Interview by Admission Results by
1 Dec 15, 2008 Jan, 2009 Jun, 2009
2 Mar 15, 2009 Apr, 2009 Jun, 2009

Consideration on late applications will depend on availability of places.

Interview
We conduct personal interviews with short-listed applicants. Motivation, interpersonal and communication skills, career plans and maturity will be assessed during the interview.

Admissions Decision
Evaluation is based on the information provided in the application and interview performance. Admission decisions are not formula-driven but depend on an applicant’s overall profile. Successful applicants will receive an admissions offer within one month of the interview.

Accepting an Offer
Successful candidates are required to return a signed acceptance together with a non-refundable deposit of HKD 20,000 before the stated deadline.

Huazhong University of Science & Technology

Doctoral Program
Management Science and Engineering

In order to improve the educational quality of doctoral candidates and strengthen the standardized management of Ph. D educating program, Management Science and Engineering started its Ph. D program as the first-grade discipline in September 1990, which was approved by the Graduate School. This version of instruction program is amended according to years’ practice. This program is also applicable to such majors as project management, information management and E-commerce and logistics management etc.

I. Educational Objectives
This Ph. D program aims to
1.train students to have a scientific attitude and style in pursuit of precise and truth, to have aspirations after the truth and innovations and good ethics for scientific research, and also to qualify the students with the ability to do the research independently;

2.lead students to solid and broad theoretical foundations as well as systematic and in-depth professional knowledge;

3.lead students to creative achievements in one’s own subjects or professional techniques;
4.qualify students with the ability to do research independently.

II. Research Fields
1. Theory and Methodology of Modern Management
2. Network Optimization Decision
3. Logistics Management and Engineering
4. Digital enterprise
5. Production and Operation Management
6. Information Management System
7. Management System Simulations
8. Information Management and E-commerce
9. Models and Systems for Financial Decisions
10.Project management

III. Length of Schooling and Credits
Full time Ph. D candidates usually spend 3 or 4 years finishing their studies. They may get their degrees earlier but not less than two and a half years, or get their degrees later but not more than 6 years. The specific length of schooling will be decided by supervisor according to the student’s case. For those students who get direct entry into Ph.D study from master period, they usually spend 4 or 5 years finishing their studies.

IV. Requirements for Ph. D Candidates
1．The education of doctoral candidates will follow the policy of “supervisor in full charge”, and organize a direction group with the supervisor as the monitor. The direction group together is responsible for the education and evaluation of the doctoral candidates.

2．Interdisciplinary Courses
1 The cross first-grade-disciplinary courses refer to graduate courses which are not defined in Management Science and Engineering. The students who select these courses must attend the classes and take the final examination.
2 The selected cross-disciplinary courses should not be the same as or similar to the courses taken during the periods as master candidates.

3．Seminars
Seminars are of importance for cultivating the comprehensive ability and leading the candidates into the advanced research fields. Within the professional fields specified by the supervisor, the doctoral candidates should participate in the special research reports given by others or take classes. The candidates should then review the most recent research papers according to the special report or the content of the course, and compose a research report and give the report in public seminars. The candidates can get 6 credits from special seminars. The allocation of the credits is 2 credits for Methodology of Management Research, 2 for advanced courses in the profession and 2 for seminar.

Being one of China’s 30 experimental universities for EMBA education approved by the State Council Office of the Academic Degree Committee and the Ministry of Education, the EMBA Program of the School of Management is geared to the needs of high-level managers and executives in enterprises and government bodies with good education background and rich management experience. The EMBA Program aims to train the entrepreneurs and high-level professional managers with outstanding international strategic perspectives and overall decision-making and leadership ability.

Since the first class opened up in the second half of 2002, many entrepreneurs and top managers at home and abroad joined in the program. The participation of many private entrepreneurs features the program, constituting a valuable network of elites. The EMBA program is developing steadily and commits itself to building a platform for entrepreneurs and top managers for study, communication and interaction so as to train high-level management personnel with strategic perspectives that can meet the requirements and challenges of global competition.

Education in the EMBA program of the School of Management includes orientation, course learning, supervisor selecting, overseas study tour, and dissertation writing, etc. There are key courses and elective courses in the EMBA program. The supervisor is selected by a two-way system. And dissertations should be defended after anonymous review and evaluation. The key courses in the EMBA program include Corporate Strategy, Managerial Economics, Advanced Financial Management, Operations and Supply Chain Logistics Management, Organizational Behavior within Cross-cultural Context, Strategic Marketing, etc.

Objective of EMBA Program: To train leaders in economic construction and development
Guidelines of EMBA Program: To inculcate intensive operational knowledge

This course is supported by economics, behavioral science and modern theory of management. As a function of management, it will help to identify the requirement and appetency of the customer, to select the target market that the corporation will serve, and to design the proper product, service, price, channel and means of promotion in order to meet the demand of the market.

The course consists of 6 sections.

In the first section, we introduce the evolvement and the latest trends of marketing.

In the second section, we want to let the students experience the art of modeling in marketing. Without using those complicated models, we choose the useful tools which can help the supervisor to make decisions.

The third section contains some applied marketing research technology, including the ways and means of survey and sales expanding model.

Then in the fourth section, the students will be asked to grasp the theory and methods of marketing, from marketing research to other management knowledge.

The fifth section focus on the marketing strategy and marketing mix in the times of information.

And we also prepared some case studies for the students in the last section.