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 Host of 2011 Asia OD Summit

BUSINESS SCHOOL OF HOHAI UNIVERSITY

ORGANIZER/CO-HOST OF 2011 ASIA OD SUMMIT

The teaching at the Business School of Hohai University can date back to the establishment of the Hohai Engineering School in 1915. By 1927 the school was renamed Hohai Engineering University with specializations in business subjects. In 1979 business teaching was resumed and its name changed to the East China School of Hydraulic Engineering. By 1983 a stream specializing in Project Management was established, making it one of the earliest universities to teach business subjects in China.

 

  Hohai University’s Business School sees “pursuing global knowledge and becoming business elites” as its mission. The school, together with the faculty and students, has been dedicating to growth and innovation by adopting a development model that incorporates education, research, advisory and training. Within this, good innovation along with students and teachers working together has successfully turned the school into one of the top business schools that integrates the three mainstream disciplines of business administration, management science and engineering and applied economics. The establishment of the Post Doctorate R&D Base has increased the school’s capability of cultivating a wide variety of degree options at the doctorate, masters (including MBA and Master of Engineering) and bachelor levels, as well as conducting cutting edge scientific research and providing social service.

 

  The school has seven streams specializing in business, management, accounting, finance, management science, information and project management and economics. In addition, there are 12 research institutes specializing in Hydro economics, strategic management, investment, asset management, intellectual property, technological economics, management science, project management, planning and decision making, human resource management, industrial development and information management and engineering philosophy and management research. Further, there are 5 professional education, training and advisory institutes, an MBA education center, Master of engineering education center, international education center, management and training center, Jiangsu Hohai management advisory company, and many more education institutions and service management institutes.

 

  The school has 156 full-time faculty members, including 101 teaching staff. Among these, there are 22 senior lecturers and 35 associate lecturers. Half of the lecturers have degrees from outside the university and/or doctoral degrees. The school has a total of 4061 students, including 315 doctoral students, 556 postgraduate students, 898 part-time graduate students ---527 MBA students, 317 students of Master of Engineering (Graduate Candidate Test), 54 candidates pursuing master degrees of university teachers and 2292 undergraduate students.

 

 The school has a complete professional discipline system, including Business Administration, management science and two postdoctoral research stations. It has two technological and managerial economics, management science and engineering award stations using the three level one subjects of the economics masters degree, as well as the two level two subjects of information science and resource and environmental economics. Furthermore, it has 6 professional disciplines in Business Administration, Project Management, Logistics Engineering and Industrial Engineering. There are three major undergraduate degrees and 16 subject areas. Within these, technological economics and management is the major subject area in Jiangsu Province and the country. Business Administration, Management Engineering and Project Engineering are included as first level subject areas in Jiangsu Province. “Jiangsu Regional Development and Strategic Water Research Center” is Jiangsu Province’s major Philosophical and Social science research institute (2007). Jiangsu is the country’s major laboratory of “Water culture, water resources and hydraulic engineering science”.

 

   While training many types of talents and different levels, the school has achieved great success in scientific research. During the national holiday, the school has spent 40 million Yuan on all types of research. It has received two of the country’s natural science funds, four of the country’s social science funds, and one education fund at the doctoral level. At the provincial level, the school has received 10 technological projects. The school has published 40 monographs, 1200 papers, including three EI, SCI and ISTP papers and 300 CSSCI papers. It has received 15 awards at the provincial level and higher.

 

  In the ministry of education’s level one subject assessment, the Business School of Hohai University was ranked 14th nationally (2003). In the discipline of applied economics, the school was ranked 19th (2004) and in Management science and engineering it was ranked 16th (2006).