Business School of Wuhan Huaxia University of Technology has two academic disciplines —Economics and Management with more than 2700 undergraduates. It is the biggest college in terms of comprehensive strength and teaching scale. There are six departments including Department of Business Administration, Department of Electronic Commerce, Department of Accounting, Department of International Trade and Finance, Department of Logistics, and Department of Financial Management, and three functional divisions including Experimental Center, Office of Teaching Administration, and Office of Student Affairs. The college offers 8 undergraduate programs: Business Administration, Marketing, E-Commerce, Accounting, International Economy and Trade, Economy and Finance, Logistics Management, and Financial Management. Among them, E-Commerce is the pilot comprehensive program reform in Hubei Province, while Accounting and International Economy & Trade are head programs of WHUT.
We have a faculty team of 87 full-time teachers, among which there are 10 professors, 24 associate professors, with 17.2% teachers having a doctor degree. Most of them are graduates from the universities of 985 Project and/or those of 211 Project and some even have overseas educational background. These teachers have strong ability of doing teaching and scientific researches. In the past three years, they have successfully applied one National Youth Fund Project, sixteen scientific research projects at provincial and ministerial levels and have published over 200 academic papers, with more than 40 on the core journals and more than 30 being retrieved by SCI, EI and CPCI.
The Experimental Center covers an area of more than 2100 square meters. It has integrated practice platforms such as enterprise simulation training room, computer teaching laboratory, accounting computer laboratory, accounting manual simulation training room, college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training room, comprehensive training laboratory, EQ skills and sand table training room.
Business School is built to serve the development of regional economy and national key industries. It has adopted multiple cultivating patterns characterized "platform + module", "order cultivation", and "double certificates", put great emphasis on both the internet and the finance, and built such key programs as cross-border e-commerce, Internet marketing, and Internet innovation & entrepreneurship.
The school has attached importance to the cultivation of students' practical & innovative ability. It has established a system for students’ technological innovation, taking an academic community as its base, professional competition as its carrier, cross-major comprehensive simulation training center as its support, teachers and students’ research projects as its platform, university-enterprise cooperation as its supplement. Students are encouraged to participate in the Challenge-cup, Internet + College Students' innovation and entrepreneurship competition, National Logistics Design Competition, covering more than 20 professional brand events. In recent years, more than 100 students are awarded in provincial science and technology competitions such as Challenge Cup and Campus Marketing Planning Competition every year. They have represented universities in Hubei Province to participate in National College Students Entrepreneurship Plan Competition and E-commerce Creation Competition.
The school has cultivated nearly 8000 talents of economic management. The graduates are highly praised by big state-owned banks, government agencies, enterprises and institutions. The employment has maintained at the rate of over 93% for the consecutive four years. More than 280 students have been admitted into the graduate school of Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, University of Birmingham in UK and other well-known universities home and abroad. Meanwhile, a great number of students have passed the State Civil Service Examination. Some typical employment and entrepreneurship models have emerged, such as Xu Qi(National 100 Excellent Village Officers), Liu Pulin (National Star of Self-improvement for College Students, Hubei Moral Model), male anchor Cha Renjie of Chutian Music Station, Zhang Bin, (Outstanding Volunteer of Western Project in Hubei Province), Yu Cong, Star Entrepreneur in Hubei Province, Zhao Zixia, professional manager of e-commerce.
Closely-rounded school's development goals, School of Business firmly establishes the school tenet of "education as the foundation and quality first" and the school philosophy of "quality for survival, management for standardization, characteristics for advantages, innovation for development", adheres to the development thinking of "laying equal stress on theory and practice, teaching and scientific research together", takes the construction of teaching staff as the core, and improves students ' knowledge, ability and quality. To achieve the goal, we should vigorously implement the market-oriented training model of classified talents and the mentoring system for freshmen, and strive to build the college into a cradle of applied technology-based economic management talents and a first-class business school in private universities in China.
