Introduction of the Business School Hohai University
The Business School of Hohai University was established in 1983. It is one of the earliest management and economical colleges in China. With over 20 years of development, the Business School has developed departments and institutes as follows: the Department of Management, the Department of Accounting, the Department of Finance, the Department of Marketing, the Department of Management Science and Information System, the Department of Engineering and Engineering Management, the Department of Economics, the Research Institute of Strategic Management, the Research Institute of Applied Economy, the Research Institute of Project Management, the Research Institute of Human Resource, the Research Institute of Water Conservancy Economy, the Research Institute of Assets Management, the Research Institute of Applied Management Science, the Educational Center for MBA, the Educational Center for Engineering Master, the Training Center, the Center for Experiment Management, the IT Training and Research Center of Hohai University and Maryland University, the Sino-American Hohai Dynasty International Business Administration Practice Base, and Hohai Management Consultancy Corporation of Jiangsu province.
The Business School has built up an integrated specialty system. At present, it has two mobile post-doctoral stations within the fields of Management and Economics, two doctor stations of Management Science and Project, and Technical Economy and Management; it was authorized to confer two master degrees of Business Administration and Industrial Engineering. It has 10 master’s programs as follows: Industrial Economics, Regional Economics, Domestic Economics, Finance, International Trade, Quantitive Economics, Management Science and Project, Accounting, Corporation Management, Technical Economy and Management. It also has totally 10 bachelor’s programs: Accounting, Financial Management, International Economy and Trade, Marketing, Business Administration, Human Resource Management, Electronic Commerce, Project Management, Information Management and Information System, and Economics.
In 2003, under the authoritative National Discipline Assessment held by the Ministry of Education of China, the first class discipline of Business Administration in the School ranked 14th amongst all Chinese Universities.
The Business School has 116 teachers, including 36 professors (11 doctoral supervisors) and 58 associate professors. Nearly 50 percent of the teachers have Doctor’s degrees.
Presently, the Business School has 159 doctoral candidates, 678 master’s degree candidates and 2,396 bachelor’s degree candidates. In order to meet the social needs of different levels, the School cultivates advanced economic managers morally, intellectually and physically with firm base of economic and administrative theories.
The Business School owns an office building of 6,800 m² with central air-condition system. It has an Experimental Management Center of 500m² and a college library of 300 m², which houses over 100,000 of specialty books.
Scientific research and management consultancy are always the focuses of the School. In the last 3 years, it has fulfilled more than 300 scientific research projects and received 30 million RMB scientific research expenditure allowances. It has published more than 800 scientific dissertations, over 50 works and teaching materials. It has also won more than 30 items of all kinds of scientific production awards