Key Figures

Disciplines

School of Business, Sun Yat-sen University has grown along with the development of China's reform and opening up. Since its establishment in 1985, with the guidance of serving the country's major strategy and the economic and social development, the school has built up the domestic first-level disciplines in management, characterized by a combination of "domestic conditions, cultural integration, and social services", which includes two major first-level disciplines (Business Administration, and Management Science and Engineering). The discipline of Business Administration was recognized as a first-level national key discipline in 2007, tied for first place (A+) in the fourth round of national discipline evaluation in 2017, and ranked No.1?in the Best Discipline of China by Shanghai Ranking from 2019 to 2024, which marks a new level of the discipline construction for business school.?

After alomost 40 years of construction and development, School of Business?has made great achievements: It currently has 2 mobile stations for post-doctoral research, 8 doctoral degree programs, 8 academic master's degree programs, 4 professional Master's Degree Programs and 2 undergraduate programs; And it has built a group of ministry and provincial quality project, national and provincial quality courses, which won 3 national teaching achievement awards and 8? provincial teaching achievement awards.


Research Achievements

Until 2023, School of Business, Sun Yat-sen University had undertaken more than 394 national-level projects and? 464 projects of ministries and commissions of the state. Among which, 1 project of the National Natural Science Foundation - Guangdong Big Data Scientific Research Center, 1 project of the Natural Science Foundation Innovation Research Group, 2 major project and 12 key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation; 10 major projects and 8 key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, and had obtained 4 philosophy and social science research projects of the Ministry of Education and 3 projects of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.

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Scientific Research Achievements (2017—2023)

Name of Projects Number of Project
Project of National Natural Science Foundation - Guangdong Big Data Research Center 1
Project of National Natural Science Foundation Innovation Research Group 1
Major projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China 2
Key projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China 9
Major projects of National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation 7
Key projects of National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation 2
National research projects 146
Provincial research projects 135
Horizontal research projects of government and enterprise 183
Teaching material / national planning 16/2
monograph 65

Paper Publishing (2017—2023)

Paper Publishing Number of Paper
A+ paper in Q1 area of international top journals 195
A paper in Q1 area of international top journals 102
Paper in domestic first-level journals 676
Paper in 695

Journals

In order to strengthen the academic influence of the School of Business?in the field of research, extensively absorb the management methods and advanced experience from international enterprises, and deepen the academic exchanges with the scholars in the field of management at home and abroad, Sun Yat-sen Business School founded three professional journals, which are Quarterly Journal of Management, China Journal of Accounting Research and Frontiers of Finance, publishing original and review papers in Chinese and English, covering all areas of economics and management, including management and finance.

Students

With its excellent academic reputation, strong faculty team, excellent teaching conditions and rich campus culture, the School's various degree programs have become a platform for outstanding students to exchange ideas and grow together.

The School adheres to the principle of "undergraduate-oriented", attaches importance to the cultivation of undergraduate talents, and has set up a number of scholarships and grants for undergraduates in our School by integrating social resources. The school-level scholarships include Li Xuerou Foundation scholarship, Eyas Soaring scholarship, Ho's admission scholarship, Dean's honorable award, etc.

Special posts are set up for further education, career planning and career guidance, guiding students to enhance their awareness and competitiveness of further studies by improving the quality of education and teaching. In recent years, the proportion of students going to MIT, Oxford, Tsinghua University, Peking University and other famous universities at home and abroad for further study has continuously increased. In addition to the study in classroom, our School also cultivates students' all around development of morality, intelligence, physique, aesthetics and labor with the second-classroom, and shapes the business talents who have both ability and moral integrity, able to cultivate charisma and eager to serve their country. Among which, ' Rhythm for China' activity has won the special award of outstanding achievement in the campus culture construction of national universities by the Ministry of Education; And many honors have been won in various business competitions every year. As August 2023, according to the statistics of enrollment and employment, our school has trained 12,437 graduates, 14,028 master graduates, and 930 PhD graduates. The School aims to cultivate managers with broad international vision, noble moral culture and excellent ability and quality, we provide outstanding management talents to the academic and political fields.