Invitation letter to all alumni of BNUBS

 

 

Dear alumni of BNUBS:

Hello!

 

How time flies! Unconsciously, BNUBS is now 40 years old. Over the past 40 years, we have forged ahead with unremitting efforts. Generation after generation of graduates have been in sync with reform and opening up, and have written a moving melody for economic development and social development.

 

BNU Business School, formerly known as Department of Political Economy of Beijing Normal University, is one of the earliest schools of economics and management in China's normal universities. It was founded in September 1979, with Mr. Tao Dayong, a famous economist, as the first dean. In 1985, it was renamed As The Department of Economics. In June 1996, it was established as the School of Economics. In March 2004, it was renamed as the School of Economics and Business Administration. Relying on the hundred years of history and culture of BNU, BNUBS takes " Promoting business and culture to serve the nation and the world through creating knowledge and educating talents" as our mission, and is committed to establish the management education, the humanities, and social responsibility of the organic combination of school-running mode. It has become an important talent training and scientific research base of economics and business administration in China.

 

 

In 2016, the School successfully passed EQUIS international accreditation. In the 2016 First-level Discipline Assessment (the fourth round) and Professional degree Level Assessment released by the Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Center of the Ministry of Education, theoretical economics was awarded A- and MBA program was awarded B+. In the QS 2019 World University Rankings by Disciplines, accounting and Finance, Business and Management Studies are ranked 11th among Chinese mainland universities, and Economics and econometrics is ranked 12th among Chinese mainland universities.

 

The School has a relatively complete and reasonable disciplinary structure. Now it has 6 departments, including Department of Economics, Department of International Economy and Trade, Department of Finance, Department of Enterprise Management, Department of Accounting and Department of Human Resources Management.  There are 5 undergraduate majors in economics (experimental class), Finance, International Economy and Trade (Hande experimental class), Accounting and International Business Management (experimental class). There are mainly three first-level disciplines, including Theoretical Economics, Applied Economics and Business Administration, which covers one of national key disciplines, 1 national cultivate discipline, two key discipline of Beijing, a Beijing philosophy and social science research base, a characteristic specialized construction point and the Ministry of Education approved training mode innovation experimental area for the Ministry of Education economics, One national characteristic specialty and Beijing characteristic specialty construction site. It has 1 post-doctoral research station, 2 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization centers, 3 first-level discipline master degree authorization centers, 2 professional master degree authorization centers (MBA, MIB), 1 International English doctoral program and 1 International English master program. It also has more than 10 research institutes, institutes and centers, 1 university-level experimental teaching center, and 6 BNU-Gate experimental economics laboratories jointly built with France.

 

 

The School has an international team of high-quality teachers, including 79 full-time teachers, 37 professors and 26 associate professors. Nearly 30% of them have received doctoral degrees from high-level overseas universities, and more than 85% of the teachers have overseas exchange and study experience. At present, the college has 8 national talents, such as "Changjiang Scholars", "Ten Thousand Talents Program", "Outstanding Young Scholars of The National Natural Science Foundation of China", "National Talents Project", and "middle-aged and young experts with outstanding contributions". There are 7 experts with special government allowance of The State Council, 4 Outstanding Teachers of Beijing and more than 10 winners of other provincial and ministerial talent titles.

 

After 40 years of development, the quality and influence of the school's scientific research output has been constantly improving. In recent years, faculty members of the School have undertaken 15 major national key projects. More than 40 scientific research achievements have been awarded by the Ministry of Education, Beijing Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award, Sun Yefang Economic Science Award, China Economic Theory Innovation Award and other awards, 3 of which have been selected into the National Philosophy and Social Science Achievements Library. Capital Education Economics Research Base and China Income Distribution Research Institute were included in the China Think Tank Index source think tank. Faculty members actively participate in national policy consultation and promote scientific research achievements to serve national, local government and enterprise development, which has had a positive impact on China's reform and development in employment and economic growth, income distribution and anti-poverty, education, international trade and finance, state-owned enterprise reform and corporate governance innovation and other fields.

 

The School has a complete talent training system from bachelor, master to doctor.  There are more than 1900 full-time students, accounting for 7.7% of the total students in the university, including 968 undergraduate students, 285 doctoral and master students, 531 MBA students and 150 international students. The School also offers a dual degree, an English-only master's degree in World Economics and China, executive education and continuing education programs. The School is an innovation experimental area of economic talent training mode of the Ministry of Education, and is also the first group of universities to establish MBA education programs among normal universities. The School attaches great importance to the cultivation of students' scientific research practice and innovation ability, and fully implements the "Encouraging Plan" - undergraduate scientific research tutorial system and freshman tutorial system.  The School attaches great importance to students' international experience and has established cooperative relations with more than 40 famous foreign universities.

 

With the mission of " promoting business and culture to serve the nation and the world through creating knowledge and educating talents" and the values of "diversity, Inclusiveness, Innovation and Responsibility", BNUBS is striving to become a first-class school of economics and Management with cultural heritage and international influence.

 

Over the past 40 years, our alumni have made positive contributions to the economic development and the construction of the motherland with their wisdom and sweat, and won a good reputation for our Alma mater and School. Alumni are the pride of BNUBS and the beautiful business cards of BNUBS. In order to fully show the development course of the college in the past 40 years, inheriting the spirit of virtue and knowledge of the predecessors and inspiring the faith of new people, BNUBS will hold a series of college celebration activities from April to October 2019, including college celebration, variety show, homecoming, academic forum, entrepreneur Forum, alumni forum and other activities.

 

Get together again at 40 and start again with a beautiful vision. Let's meet at  BNUBS to review the past and think about the future. Youth does not end, friendship lasts forever!

Hereby notice, please know!

Contact: Ge Yuliang (010-58802354); Han Lili (010-58804660)

 

BNUBS

May 6, 2019