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Management Science and Engineering:

The discipline of Management Science and Engineering was authorized to confer a doctoral degree in 2000, granted to have a postdoctoral research center in 2003, and rated as a national first-class key discipline in 2007. In 2017, it scored "A" in the fourth round of the discipline evaluation organized by the Ministry of Education, and was included in the national "Double First-Class" construction discipline list in 2017.

The discipline focuses on cultivating students to have the all-round moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic grounding with a hard-working spirit, to adapt to major national strategic needs and the forefront of international scientific and technological development, to have a solid and broad foundation of theory and systematic and in-depth expertise in the discipline, to be familiar with the current status and trends of scientific and technological development in the discipline, and to be able to discover, analyze and solve problems, and continuously innovate. It also aims to cultivate high-level management elites who possess both moral and talent qualities, and excellent abilities to consciously serve the country in the information age. The main research directions are as follows:

(1) Information Management and Information System

(2) Optimization and Decision Theory and Methods

(3) E-Commerce and Business Intelligence

(4) Logistics and Supply Chain Management

(5) Engineering and Project Management

(6) Administrative Management and E-Government Affairs

(7) Service Science and Engineering

(8) Social Management Engineering

The educational system is 3-4 years, with a maximum duration of no longer than 6 years. 1 year is for curriculum study, and no less than 2 years for thesis work. The total credits shall not be less than 17, and the credits for degree courses shall not be less than 10.

Business Administration:

The discipline of Business Administration of Hefei University of Technology (hereinafter referred to as the discipline) was authorized to confer a master's degree in Business Administration in 2000, a master's degree in Accounting in 2003, and a doctoral degree in Business Administration in 2005. It was authorized to confer a master's degree and a doctoral degree in the first-level discipline of Business Administration in 2006 and in 2010 respectively, granted to have a postdoctoral research center in Business Administration in 2012, and approved for a major discipline construction project in Anhui province in 2014.

The discipline focuses on cultivating students to have the all-round moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic grounding with a hard-working spirit, to adapt to the major national strategic needs and the forefront of international scientific and technological development, to possess a solid and broad foundation of Business Administration theory and systematic and in-depth professional expertise, to accurately grasp the current status and trends of scientific and technological development in the discipline, and to be able to discover, analyze and solve problems, and continuously innovate. It also aims to cultivate high-level management elites who possess both moral and talent qualities, and excellent abilities to consciously serve the country in the information age. The main research directions are as follows:

(1) Strategic Management

(2) Marketing Management

(3) Production Operation Management

(4) Accounting

(5) Human Resources Management

(6) Enterprise Information Resource Management

The educational system is 3-4 years, with a maximum duration of no longer than 6 years. 1 year is for curriculum study, and no less than 2 years for thesis work. The total credits shall not be less than 17, and the credits for degree courses shall not be less than 10.

Doctoral Programs can be divided into two categories: four to five years of extensive and continuing degree programs and 3-4 years of general Doctoral Programs. Doctoral Programs focus on the training of high-quality original research, focusing on theoretical innovation. Academic and professional engagement includes on-site research, seminars, international exchanges, and publication of high-level research papers. The Doctoral programs include two fields: Management Science and Engineering, and Business Administration.

The discipline of management science and engineering is a complex management of growth education issues and social development. It adopts system thinking, improvement methods and information technology, and aims at management science and decision-making level. It explores and explores the field as well as organization management in education and effective nutrition. The discipline has been applied for many years. In the intense research and practice, the following main research directions have been formed:

(1) Information management and information system

(2) Engineering and project management

(3) E-commerce and business intelligence

(4) Logistics and supply chain management

(5) Management system engineering

(6) Optimization and decision theory

(7) Administrative management and e-government

(8) Financial Engineering

This discipline closely integrates the major needs of the national economy and social development, explores and studies management theories and methods with Chinese characteristics, and has achieved high-level results in scientific research, personnel training, and social services.

The discipline of business administration is a science that takes social microeconomic organizations as the main research object and systematically studies the general methods and general laws of its management activities and decision-making. In the course of years of research and practice, this discipline has formed the following main research directions:

(1) Strategic management

(2) Marketing management

(3) Production operation management

(4) Accounting and financial management

(5) Human resource management

(6) Enterprise information resource management

This program is oriented to the innovation needs in the transformation and upgrading of the economic structure and the construction of a harmonious society, and constantly uses new theories and technologies to improve the quality of the disciplines, forming the advantages and distinctive features of in-depth integration of business management theory and modern information technology.

Doctoral students must obtain one of the following achievements during their studies before they can be awarded a doctorate degree.

(1) Publish ≥1 journal papers in JCR District 2 (databases are valid during the period of study) included in SCI/SSCI; or publish ≥2 journal papers in SCI/SSCI; or publish journal papers in SCI/SSCI 1 and published a proofreading core journal paper (2010 edition or latest edition) ≥1; or publishing proofreading core journal paper (2010 edition or latest edition) ≥2.

(2) Authorized national (international) invention patents ≥1 or won the National Science and Technology Achievement Award (valid winner) or the first prize of provincial and ministerial scientific and technological achievements (including social sciences) (top 5) or the second prize of provincial and ministerial scientific and technological achievements Prizes (top 3) ≥1, and published one SCI/SSCI paper or a core journal paper (2010 edition or the latest edition). All academic achievements of the application for a degree should be closely related to the content of the dissertation and in line with the subject research direction; thesis achievements can include special editions, but no supplements; thesis or patent achievements must be signed by the School of Management of Hefei University of Technology as the first department. The degree applicant is the first author (inventor) or the supervisor is the first author (inventor)while the degree applicant is the second author (inventor).