The Faculty is committed to providing quality business education for students, producing quality applied research with impact, promoting quality academic culture to help faculty members excel, and pursing pro-actively strategic linkages with academic and business organisations in Hong Kong, the mainland and overseas. It consists of the Departments of Accountancy, Economics and Finance, Information Systems, Management, Management Sciences and Marketing, each contributing to the teaching of the Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) programme (BBA) as well as the Master of Business Administration programme (MBA), Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) and the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA). The Faculty offers taught undergraduate and postgraduate programmes tailor-made to suit the specific needs of different professions, professional doctorate and the more traditional research degrees leading to the awards of MPhil and PhD. The Faculty has some 200 academic staff and eminent scholars recruited from around the world. This diversity ensures students have a global vision of the business environment. Its graduates are well received by employers in the business community and have become a valuable pool of human resources in Hong Kong.
The Faculty of Business has achieved triple accreditations by the premier accrediting agencies for business schools globally, including: AACSB International (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System from European Foundation for Management Development), and AMBA (The Association of MBAs). These achievements place the Faculty of Business on a par with the leading business schools in different parts of the world that meet quality standards pertinent to business education.
The BBA programme admits students from a variety of backgrounds. It is designed to present an overall view of management while at the same time provide students with the necessary skills in a specialisation so that they can acquire and succeed in a responsible position upon graduation.
At the postgraduate level, the Faculty offers 14 master’s degrees and one postgraduate certificate, plus the research MPhil and PhD degrees programmes. Some of these programmes admit students with specific areas of expertise which build upon their undergraduate studies and lead to a Master of Arts or Master of Science in a particular area. The Faculty also offers a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) programme. This professional doctorate programme aims at nurturing a new generation of top-level business scholar-practitioners who can apply advanced research techniques in a scholarly manner to address strategic real world business problems.
The Faculty excels in selected areas of applied research which are of high international standard. Some of our work has made significant and timely impact on Hong Kong businesses. The research strengths of the Faculty are well aligned with our teaching programmes.
The mission of the Faculty is to be a centre of academic and professional excellence dedicated to meeting the educational needs of the Hong Kong business community and to maintain strong partnership with the academic and private sectors, such as, establishment of Hong Kong’s first Knowledge Discovery Centre with the SAS Institute, the recognised leader in business intelligence and data mining; and forming a strategic alliance with the leading software solutions provider SAP to set up the first e-logistic laboratory. The Faculty also formed alliances with other well-known universities, such as an academic and research collaboration with the Hass School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Both business schools worked closely on the exchange of students, academics and research personnel.
The Faculty emphasises the development of professional competencies and skills in the context of globalisation and whole personal development. The Faculty offers high value-added educational programmes, providing ample opportunities for students to participate in international exchange with renowned business schools around the world.