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

• 1956: Bachelor of Commerce (Accountancy) is first offered at Nanyang University, a year after the Chinese-language university was founded.
• 1980: Nanyang University merges with the University of Singapore to form the National University of Singapore (NUS).
• 1981: Nanyang Technological Institute (NTI) is established with a charter to train three-quarters of Singapore's engineers.
• 1987: The accountancy programme at NUS moves over to NTI, and the School of Accountancy (SOA) is established.
• 1989: SOA admits its first batch of undergraduates for the Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) degree and is renamed the School of Accountancy and Commerce (SAC).
• 1990: The school is renamed the School of Accountancy and Business (SAB), as business specialisations such as Actuarial Science, Banking, Marketing and Human Resource Management are introduced.
• 1991: Nanyang Technological Institute becomes a full-fledged university, under the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Act.^[6] The Nanyang MBA programme is launched in that same year. The Bachelor of Commerce degree is renamed as the Bachelor of Business degree.
• 1995: School of Accountancy and Business is renamed as the Nanyang Business School.
• 2004: Nanyang Business School is conferred the EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System) accreditation.
• 2005: Nanyang Business School is awarded the AACSB (Association of Advance Collegiate School of Business) accreditation.^[7]

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:

• Bachelor of Accountancy
• Bachelor of Business (with specialisations in Actuarial Science, Banking & Finance, Business Analytics, Human Resource Consulting, Marketing, Risk Management and Insurance)
• Double Degree in Accountancy and Business
• Double Degree in Business and Computing (Computer Science or Computer Engineering)
• Integrated Programme in Bachelor of Accountancy or Business with Master of Science in Financial Engineering
• Minor in Strategic Communication
• Minor in Risk Management and Insurance
• Minor in Finance
• Minor in Business
• Second Major in Business
• Exchange Study
• Experiential Semester Programme
• Professional Attachment and Internship

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:

• Accounting
• Finance
• Marketing
• Operations
• Strategic Marketing
• Analytics of Decision making
• Corporate Governance & Ethics
• Economics & Markets
• Technology & E-Business

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:

• Nanyang-Waseda Double MBA: 2 MBA degrees in 14 months in Singapore and Japan.
• Nanyang-St. Gallen Double Masters: Nanyang MBA and Master of Arts in Strategy & International Management in 24 months in Singapore and St. Gallen, Switzerland.
• Nanyang-St. Gallen Double MBA: Nanyang MBA and St. Gallen MBA in 24 months in Singapore & St. Gallen, Switzerland.
• Nanyang-ESSEC Double Masters: Nanyang MBA and MSc in Management in 24 months in Singapore and France.

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:

• College of Engineering
• Nanyang Business School
• Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• College of Science
• College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
• Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
• National Institute of Education
• Interdisciplinary Graduate School
• S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

Clubs and Committees

Nanyang Business School houses a variety of clubs and committees. The constituent clubs at NBS are:

• Accountancy & Business Club (ABC)
• Banking & Finance Club (BAFC)
• BizIT Club
• Business Solutions
• Human Resource Consulting Club (HRC)
• Investment Interactive Club (IIC)
• MarkeTHINK Club
• NBS Auditing & Assurance Team (NAAT)
• Quantitative Finance and Actuarial Science Club (QFASC)
• Risk Management Society (RMS)
• Tax Advisory Club (TAC)
• Tourism & Hospitality Management Club (THMC)

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:

• ESSEC Business School, France
• Cornell School of Hotel Administration, US
• Carnegie Mellon University, US
• Lorange Institute of Business, Switzerland
• MIT Sloan School of Management, US
• Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, US
• University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
• University of California, Berkeley, US
• Netherlands Institute of Maritime Technology, Netherlands
• University of Illinois, US
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
• Waseda University, Japan
• EDHEC Business School, France

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:

• Accounting
• Banking & Finance
• Business Law
• Information Technology & Operations Management
• Marketing & International Business
• Strategy, Management & Organisation

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

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

Notable rankings include:

• The Financial Times' (FT) Executive MBA Ranking 2015: 10th worldwide (1st in Singapore)^[17]
• The Financial Times' (FT) Global MBA Ranking 2016: 29th worldwide (1st in Singapore)^[18]
• The Economist 2016 Global MBA rankings: 69th worldwide (1st in Singapore for 13 consecutive years)^[19]
• Brigham Young University (BYU) Accounting Research Rankings released in April 2014: No.1 in Asia, 7th worldwide.

References

External links

• NTU NBS Executive MBA program website
• Nanyang MBA Website
• Nanyang EMBA Website
• Nanyang Fellows Website