The Department of Business Administration is approved by the Ministry of Education as one of the 2019 National First-class Majors. It focuses on cultivating senior professionals with a global vision, a sense of social responsibility, professional knowledge and practical ability in business. In accordance with the professional development requirements of pursuing business studies and cultivating management elites, the department relies on the provincial B key discipline business management, the doctoral project, the teaching experiment center, the research center of innovation and entrepreneurship and business growth, and the special area of B disciplines of the university. The university has proposed the philosophy of international orientation, local roots, and unity of knowledge and action based on the infrastructure of innovation and entrepreneurship and enterprise growth research platform. The International Orientation requires to look at the world, actively introduce foreign advanced and effective education and teaching methods, cultivate students' international vision and concept, and expand international training and further study; the Local Root advocates rooting in the Chinese context, closely integrating local enterprises and students' individual needs, and gradually forming the business administration program. The Unity of Knowledge and Practice emphasizes that students should not be confined to books, and advocates the use of practice, cultivating senior professionals with innovative spirit, entrepreneurial spirit, international strategic vision and practical ability.
The Business Administration Department has a number of visiting scholars from abroad with international perspectives, scientific researchers from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Social Science Foundation of China, and scientific researchers (professors, associate professors and doctors) who have published research results in high-quality academic journals at home and abroad and participated in international academic exchanges to support the cultivation of talents in Business Administration. With the basic starting point of cultivating thick-based, compound and compatible talents, the business administration program encourages the absorption of advanced foreign teaching methods, insists on bilingual lectures, case teaching and experimental model simulation teaching, and actively explores various measures for teaching experiments and reforms. On the basis of extensive research, the Business Administration major has effectively incorporated innovation and entrepreneurship education into the teaching plan and program of professional education, and established a multi-level and three-dimensional curriculum system integrating innovation and entrepreneurship education with professional education.
The business administration program has always adhered to the education concept of combining internationalization and localization to ensure that students can build a systematic, comprehensive, compatible and open management knowledge system through their studies - including economics, management, finance, accounting, multinational business and international enterprise management, law and humanities and social sciences, etc. Students can obtain the maximum knowledge with Students will be able to acquire knowledge with leading values and cutting-edge disciplines, and understand and be familiar with global business concepts and business models. At the same time, Entrepreneurship Management, Innovation Management, Theory and Practice of Entrepreneurship and Data Analysis have been added to the training program of Business Administration. In addition, the program actively promotes mobile classroom. In addition, the major actively advocates activities such as mobile classroom and enterprise guests in the classroom, attaches great importance to the construction of internship bases, formulates, develops and improves the construction plan of internship bases, and successfully builds an interactive platform between students and enterprises. The business management majors have built internship bases with enterprises in Hefei, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Shanghai and Guangzhou respectively, and established good cooperation relationship with famous enterprises.
The undergraduate graduates of Business Administration have been admitted to postgraduate studies in famous universities and colleges in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and other countries, as well as domestic double first-class universities; the employment rate of the major has reached more than 96%, and the graduates are widely employed in famous financial institutions, multinational companies, large state-owned enterprises, as well as Graduates are widely employed in famous financial institutions, multinational corporations, large state-owned enterprises, and government agencies and enterprises and institutions, etc. Graduates of the Business Administration program have outstanding practical ability, good teamwork and innovative entrepreneurial spirit, and can quickly integrate into the organization and work well in the industry, which is widely praised.