Nanyang Business School

Nanyang Business School
Motto Nurturing Global Leaders for a Sustainable World
Type Business School
Established 1956
Dean Professor Ravi Kumar
Academic staff
 160
Undergraduates 3,900
Postgraduates 500
Location Singapore, Singapore
1°20′41″N 103°40′53″E / 1.34472°N 103.68139°E / 1.34472; 103.68139Coordinates: 1°20′41″N 103°40′53″E / 1.34472°N 103.68139°E / 1.34472; 103.68139
Language English
Affiliations Nanyang Technological University
Website

http://www.nbs.ntu.edu.sg/Pages/Home.aspx

http://www.ntuaccountingbusinessdegree.com/

Nanyang Business School (NBS) is the business school of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU). Singapore's oldest business school, NBS was established in 1956 at the then Nanyang University, which was subsequently absorbed by the National University of Singapore in 1980 before it finally moved to NTU in 1987. It is also the largest business school in Singapore with over 4,400 undergraduate and postgraduate students.

NBS is widely regarded as Singapore's premier business school and is consistently ranked amongst the world's best. For 12 consecutive years since 2004, Nanyang Business School has been ranked No.1 in Singapore by The Economist Full-time MBA rankings.[1] NTU's flagship Nanyang MBA is also Singapore's No.1 MBA programme, having placed 29th worldwide in the 2016 Financial Times Global MBA Ranking.[2]

History

Academia & Accreditations

Nanyang Business School offers a wide range of courses which are globally recognised. The school provides students with real-world business projects, giving them a myriad of experience and international exposure. The faculty has a diverse background in academia and industry as they hail from different countries which gives them the opportunity to project a strong cross cultural perspective in their teachings.

Nanyang Business School is the first business school in Singapore, and the third in Asia, to be accredited by both the European Quality Improvement System and Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. It is also one of only 11 business schools outside of the US to be accredited with the AACSB in Accounting.

Undergraduate Programs

Undergraduate courses offered at Nanyang Business School include the following:

Nanyang Business School's unique selling proposition is its 3-year direct honours single degree programmes compared to 4 years direct and non-direct honours at the other Singapore universities. NBS' double degree programmes and integrated Bachelor/Master's programme can also be completed within 3.5 - 4 years.

The business school has a dedicated career office, NBS Career Services which consists of a team of specialists and counsellors who are committed in guiding the students along their career paths and helping them achieve their desired career goals through workshops, courses and seminars. All undergraduates will have to complete a professional internship as a part of the degree requirements.

Post Graduate Programs

NBS offers a 12-month full-time or 20-month part-time degree with 3 specific career tracks to choose from: General Management track, Strategy & Innovation track and Banking and Finance track. Each of these tracks offer 9 core courses in:

The 12 month basic MBA programme will span over 3 trimesters. The Nanyang MBA programme allows the students to either choose the Nanyang General MBA course or earn a Double MBA, earning one from Nanyang Business School and another from a prominent partner university. Other programmes include the Nanyang Executive MBA, Nanyang Fellows MBA, MSc Accountancy and MSc Financial Engineering.

Double MBA & Master's degree programmes offered by NBS is a tie up with Business Schools from Europe & Asia leveraging on their respective strengths to provide these courses:

Campus

Nanyang Technological University Campus Building
Nanyang Technological University Residential Hall

Nanyang Technological University is a large 200 hectare campus along the Jurong West district of Singapore consisting of a number of schools and colleges and residential buildings. The campus offers excellent facilities for the students to enjoy such as the e-commerce laboratory and financial trading rooms which are equipped with Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters terminals for teaching and research.

The different schools in the campus are:

Clubs and Committees

Nanyang Business School houses a variety of clubs and committees which provides many opportunities for the local and international students to explore their interests and participate in local and overseas competitions, honing their social, entrepreneurial and leadership skills in the process. The constituent clubs at NBS are:

Global Associations

Nanyang Business School has various multinational tie-up programmes with some of the world's top universities across Europe, US, and Asia.

Some of the major tie ups include:

Faculty

Nanyang Business School has more than 160 professors from more than 20 countries, proficient in 30 languages holding doctorates from the most renowned universities in the world.

The faculty is organised into six academic divisions, though several possess research interests that span more than one division. The divisions are:

Professor Vijay Sethi (Information Technology & Operations Management) was awarded World’s Best Business Professor by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) [5] in 2013. His work is focused on digital disruptions, the economics of technology, social media and networks, data analytics, legal and IPR issues, and patterns of new technology evolution.

Professor Tan Hun-Tong is the world's No.1 accounting researcher[6] according to the Brigham Young University (BYU) Accounting Research Rankings, while Professor Clive Lennox is ranked 2nd in Asia. NBS is ranked joint 7th in the world with MIT and is top in Singapore for accounting research.[7]

Rankings

Business school rankings
Worldwide MBA
Business Insider[8] 50
Economist[9] 59
Financial Times[10] 29

NBS has consistently been ranked amongst the world's top business schools. Notable rankings include:

References

  1. ↑ http://www.economist.com/whichmba/full-time-mba-ranking?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/MBARankings
  2. ↑ "Business school rankings from the Financial Times - FT.com". rankings.ft.com. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
  3. ↑ "The Nanyang Technological University Act, 1991" (PDF). Ntu.edu.sg. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  4. ↑ "History". Nbs.ntu.edu.sg. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  5. ↑ "Best Business Professor 2013". Bbc.com. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  6. ↑ http://www.byuaccounting.net/rankings/indrank/rank_ind.php?qurank=All&sortorder=ranking30
  7. ↑ http://www.byuaccounting.net/rankings/univrank/rank_university.php?qurank=All&sortorder=ranking6
  8. ↑ "The 50 best business schools in the world". Business Insider. 2015. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
  9. ↑ "Full time MBA ranking". Economist. 2015. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
  10. ↑ "Global MBA Ranking". Financial Times. 2016. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
  11. ↑ "NTU's business school rated 10th in the Financial Times’ global EMBA ranking". Rankings.ft.com. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
  12. ↑ "Business school rankings from the Financial Times - FT.com". rankings.ft.com. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
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