China’s Ministry of Education recently recognised two undergraduate programmes of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University’s International Business School Suzhou as National Top-Ranking University Programmes.To get more news about best business schools in China, you can visit acem.sjtu.edu.cn official website.
“This national-level recognition indicates that our efforts to provide innovative, forward-looking programmes are on target,” said Dr Ellen Touchstone, programme director of one of the programmes: BA International Business with a Language. “I’m particularly proud of how both of these programmes are interdisciplinary – no silos here.”Dr. Szu-way Shu, programme director of BSc Information Management and Information Systems, the other programme recognised, also emphasised how the cross-disciplinary benefits of the programmes are exceptional.
“Traditional management information systems (MIS) programmes in business schools focus mostly on the management aspects, while computer sciences programmes in engineering schools focus on programming and algorithms,” he said.Students who enrol in the BA International Business with a Language programme study modules from different departments in IBSS, which provides a broad international business background, Dr Touchstone said. “Experiencing different business disciplines helps students decide in which field they would like to work or study in the future.
They can then engage with the IBSS Employability Team to arrange work placements and internships in those more specific fields,” she said. In addition, this programme enables students to gain business contacts important to their future careers, Dr Touchstone said. “As one of the most popular programmes with our international students, this programme and its community provides students with their first business network,” she said. “I explain to our students that they need to be developing these relationships now as they don’t know who from among their classmates will be an important business contact in the future.” A third advantage of the BA International Business with a Language programme is that it teaches students one or more languages outside of their native languages, Dr Touchstone said.
“The language portion of this programme is provided by the Modern Language Centre in XJTLU’s School of Languages,” she noted. “This programme develops Chinese students’ proficiency in a third language – Spanish or Japanese – in addition to their Academic English courses. These language and cultural skills open up additional job markets and employment possibilities with Chinese companies operating in Spain, the U.S., Central and South America and Japan.
