Master By Research

Business administration is a discipline that blends management, accounting, psychology, statistics, and other disciplines and uses other natural science methods to uncover administrative laws and then enhance and optimize administration based on these laws.

BFSU established the undergraduate major of Business Administration in 2002 with several directions including Business Administration, International Commerce, Accounting and Financial Management. In 2010, it was authorized to award master’s degrees in Management Science and Engineering, and set up the sub-discipline on Multinational Business and Information Management. It was accredited to award master’s degrees in International Commerce in 2014, and master’s degrees in Business Administration in 2018.

By combining business management theories with BFSU’s strengths in language and culture study, this program aims to cultivate interdisciplinary and bilingual talent in administration. It has set two sub-disciplines: Corporate Management and Accounting.

Sub-disciplines

1. Corporate Management

By combining and innovating different disciplines including Management, Psychology and Sociology, the Master of Corporate Management focuses on the challenges within organizations caused by the current changing economic, business, and social environments. This program studies various topics such as international marketing, e-commerce marketing, consumer behavior, strategic management of multinational corporations, organizational behavior, and human resource management. We have achieved research outcomes in global business strategies, overseas strategies of Chinese companies, multinational human resource management, and cross-cultural communication and negotiation.

This program aims to cultivate interdisciplinary management talent with English fluency who have a solid theoretical foundation in management and economics, and master frontier management methods and tools. Through training, students will be familiar with modern enterprise operations and business models, and be sensitive to changes in business environment. They are innovative, capable to make comprehensive decisions, have a strategic vision for development, have excellent communication skills, and are able to deal with the problems faced in business management in a cross-cultural and international era.

Major courses: Advanced Statistics, Research Methods in Management, International Marketing, Consumer Behavior, Organizational Behavior, Strategic Management, Strategic Human Resource Management, Selected Reading of Literature; 

Optional courses: Innovation of Digital Business Model, Business Analysis Methods, Management of Operation and Supply Chain, Case Study Methods, Cross-cultural Communication and Management, International Business Negotiation, Managerial Economics, Regional Investment Environment.

2. Accounting

Based on BFSU’s language strengths and international growth strategy, the Master of Accounting conducts research on financial accounting and corporate governance of the Belt and Road countries, and dig deeper into the root causes of international accounting differences and their impacts with global insights. We have achieved research outcomes in accounting information quality, auditing quality, corporate governance, financing decision, investment decision, risk management and other related fields. 

This program aims to cultivate senior accounting specialists with professional ethics, systematic knowledge and skills in modern accounting theories and practices, as well as international insights and cross-cultural communication skills. Through training, they will be able to apply empirical accounting research methods to identify the problems faced by enterprises, including accounting information disclosure, accounting policy selection, capital structure and corporate governance. In this way, they will be competent to work in multinational corporations, securities research institutions, investment companies, state organs and universities.

Major courses: Advanced Statistics, Research Methods in Management, Financial Accounting Theory and Practice, Auditing Theory and Practice, Financial Management Theory and Practice, Frontiers in Accounting Research, Frontiers in Corporate Finance Research, Empirical Accounting Research Methods; 

Optional courses: Cross-Cultural Communication and Management, Financial Statements and Business Analysis, International Tax Strategies for Multinational Enterprises, Accounting Information Systems and Finance Sharing, Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, Business Analysis Methods, and Regional Investment Environment.