Nanyang Business School

Nanyang Business School
Motto Nurturing Global Leaders for a Sustainable World
Type Business School
Established 1956
Dean Professor Neo Boon Siong
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 www.nbs.ntu.edu.sg

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 6,800 students pursuing undergraduate, postgraduate and executive programmes.[1][2]

NBS is widely regarded as Singapore's premier business school and is consistently ranked amongst the world's best. For 13 consecutive years since 2004, Nanyang Business School has been ranked No.1 in Singapore by The Economist Full-time MBA rankings.[3][4] NTU's flagship Nanyang MBA was placed 29th worldwide (1st in Singapore) in the 2016 Financial Times Global MBA Ranking.[5]

History

Academia & Accreditations

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:

The school offers 3-year direct honours single degree programmes. NBS' double degree programmes and the integrated Bachelor/Master's programme can be completed within 3.5 to 4 years. As part of the degree requirements, all undergraduates will have to complete a professional internship.

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 size of the current batch is 88. 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 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 various facilities for students to enjoy such as the e-commerce laboratory and financial trading rooms. In 2014, Nanyang Business School launched the 165-square meter Centre for Applied Financial Education, the largest finance lab in Singapore. The new lab is equipped with 60 dedicated Thomson Reuters Eikon terminals with Datastream, along with 24 Bloomberg terminals that will allow business school students to access all kinds of real-time financial, economic and business news information.[8]

The main NTU campus houses most of the Colleges and Schools. These include:

Clubs and Committees

Nanyang Business School houses a variety of clubs and committees. 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. This makes NBS one of the largest business schools in the world in terms of faculty strength.[9][10]

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) [11] 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[12] 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.[13]

Rankings

Business school rankings
Worldwide MBA
Business Insider[14] 50
Economist[15] 69
Financial Times[16] 29

NBS has consistently been ranked amongst the world's top business schools, and the best in Singapore.

Notable rankings include:

References

  1. ↑ https://twitter.com/NanyangBizSch/status/749933100268920832
  2. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/NTUNBSGrad/photos/a.1754610058108872.1073741845.1521063928130154/1761678450735366/?type=3&theater
  3. ↑ http://www.nbs.ntu.edu.sg/News_Events/News/Pages/NBS_ranked_top_in_Singapore_for_11th_year_by_The_Economist.aspx
  4. ↑ http://www.economist.com/whichmba/full-time-mba-ranking?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/MBARankings
  5. ↑ "Business school rankings from the Financial Times - FT.com". rankings.ft.com. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
  6. ↑ "The Nanyang Technological University Act, 1991" (PDF). Ntu.edu.sg. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  7. ↑ "History". Nbs.ntu.edu.sg. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  8. ↑ http://sbr.com.sg/financial-services/news/nanyang-business-school-unveils-singapore%E2%80%99s-largest-finance-lab
  9. ↑ http://poetsandquants.com/school-profile/nanyang-business-school-at-nanyang-technological-university/
  10. ↑ http://www.nanyangmba.ntu.edu.sg/faculty/
  11. ↑ "Best Business Professor 2013". Bbc.com. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  12. ↑ http://www.byuaccounting.net/rankings/indrank/rank_ind.php?qurank=All&sortorder=ranking30
  13. ↑ http://www.byuaccounting.net/rankings/univrank/rank_university.php?qurank=All&sortorder=ranking6
  14. ↑ "The 50 best business schools in the world". Business Insider. 2015. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
  15. ↑ "Full time MBA ranking". Economist. 2015. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
  16. ↑ "Global MBA Ranking". Financial Times. 2016. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
  17. ↑ "NTU's business school rated 10th in the Financial Times' global EMBA ranking". Rankings.ft.com. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
  18. ↑ "Business school rankings from the Financial Times - FT.com". rankings.ft.com. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
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