Introduction to School of Business Administration
The School of Business Administration (SBA) has 98 faculty members, including 8 professors and 25 associate professors.More than 80% of full-time teachershave adoctorate,andover 60%of themhave studied abroad or served as academic visitors. The vast majority oftheteachers have experience in education work and industrypractice. In addition,the schoolengages famousoverseasprofessorssuch asEastern Scholarprofessorsand industry experts as part-time professors.Among the faculty members, onewas selected forPujiang Talents Project, one forShanghaiProvincial Cross-century TalentsProject, oneforShanghaiProvincialEntrepreneurial Leading TalentsProject, twoasShuguang Scholar of Shanghai, and threeasShanghai Chenguang Scholar.Moreover,many of themhold various positions in national societies.
Theschool remains committedtoits fundamental taskofcultivating integrity in studentsandoffers distinctive programs for different majors. It has set up5 bachelor's degree programs, namelybusiness administration, marketing, human resource management, logistics management, and real estate development and management.The programs of marketing and logistics management arelisted as aShanghai Applied Undergraduate Pilot Program,thebusiness administrationprogram asaModelAll-English Planning ProgramofUniversities and Colleges inShanghai, thelogistics managementprogramas one of the first 1+X” Certificate System Pilot Programs by the Ministry of Education, and thereal estate development and managementprogramasOutstanding Talent Reserve Base of China Real Estate Association.There aremore than 1,600full-timestudentsin the school.
The business administrationprogramhas two characteristicprofessionaldirections, namelyinternationalization and art financial management,and thelogistics managementprogramfeatures logistics financial management. The marketingprogramfocuses on financial marketing, and thehuman resources managementprogramandthereal estate development and managementprogramare committed to exploring the characteristic training mode of compound professional talents for financial institutions, which has achievedsignificant results.
In addition, SBAhas continuedto strengthen its construction of disciplines and specialties.The discipline of business administrationislisted as aFirst-class DisciplineinShanghai (Class B)andClass I Plateau DisciplineinShanghaiUniversities.In the past five years, our teachers have taken charge of more than 30 projects at the ministerial,provincialandnational levels, including the onesfunded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Social Science Fund of China,andthe humanities and social sciences research projects under the Ministry of Education.Theyhave published more than 200 academic papers in academic journals at home and abroad and over 20 books and textbooks. On top of that,theyhave won more than 10 ministerial and provincial awards, including Shanghai Teaching Achievement Award and Shanghai Municipal Decision-making Consulting Research Achievement Award.Furthermore, the schoolhas one ShanghaiProvincialQuality Online Course, two Shanghai Excellent Courses, three Demonstrative English-Taught CoursesundertheShanghai Municipal Education Commission, and six key coursesofShanghai Municipal Education Commission.
Adhering tothe student-centered education and teaching philosophy, SBA hasconstantlyinnovatedin thetalent training process.Ithasdevelopeda scientific training programfocusing onthedevelopmentof students’ abilities and qualities, exploredinnovativetalent training modes such as general enrollment and international experimental class, and regularly organizedmunicipal competitions such as Marketing Planning Competition for College students in Shanghaiand school-level competitions, whichhas expandedthesocial influenceof the school. SBA alwaysencourages students to participate inmunicipal,national, and international competitionsforcollege studentsandthey havewon many awards.Throughtheseevents, our students have been recognized by the society and enhanced their employment competitiveness.
Over the years, SBA hascarried outin-depth cooperationwithenterprises and hasdozens of signed internship units, including banks and non-bank financial institutions, shipping and logistics enterprises, commercial and trade enterprises, information technology companies and other enterprises and institutions.
Theschool keeps on promoting open education anddeepeninginternational exchanges and cooperation.Ithas established cooperative relations with many overseas universities such as University of California, Riverside(USA), Roosevelt University(USA), Northern Illinois University(USA), The University of Newcastle, Australia and Fu Jen Catholic University(Taiwan), to carry out dual degree programsand the 3+1+1 master degree program. Besides,ithasdevelopedexchange student programswith University of Utah (USA), Nazareth College (USA), De Montfort University (UK), Saxion University of Applied Sciences(Netherlands), Lapland University of Applied Sciences (Finland) and other colleges and universities. Every year, students are selected to participate in overseas internship or short-term exchangeand studyprograms. Currently,the schoolkeeps onapplyingfor accreditation by theAACSB. After more than five years of efforts, it has made marked progressin it.
Theschoolhas always attached great importance to the employment of our students. Theyhave good prospects of employment. Most of graduate’s work at financial institutions and famous industrial and commercial enterprises, and are well received by employers.
