Company Profile
Nanyang Technological University
Company Overview
The Division of Strategy, Management & Organization (SMO) is the biggest division in the Nanyang Business School. It comprises three major disciplines: Strategy, Organizational Behaviour, and Business & Managerial Communication.
The Division has approximately 50 faculty, including visiting professors. Its faculty research program, characterized by multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural approaches, is vigorous and growing in international stature. The results have been published in the leading international journals and publications. HR Consulting specialization attracts some of the best students. The Division is also home to the prestigious Human Resource Roundtable (HARRT) Research Center, which is affiliated to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Company History
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has a distinguished lineage with roots that go back to 1955, when Nanyang University (Nantah), the first Chinese-language university in Southeast Asia, was set up with donations from people of all walks of life, from Singapore and the region. Nanyang University was built on land donated by the Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan, a well-known clan association.
Nanyang Technological Institute (NTI) was established on the same campus in 1981 with government funding to educate practice-oriented engineers for the burgeoning Singapore economy. In 1991, NTI became Nanyang Technological University with the absorption of the National Institute of Education. The alumni rolls of the former Nanyang University were transferred to NTU in 1996.
In April 2006, NTU was corporatised. Autonomy brings about increased flexibility and new opportunities, allowing NTU to draw on its strengths to enhance global education and research, and to soar to greater heights on the world stage.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
NTU is a research-intensive university ranked among the top 25 technological universities in the world.
Nanyang Business School is one of Asia’s leading business schools and is accredited by AACSB and EQUIS. We offer undergraduate degrees in Accountancy and Business as well as MBA and PhD degrees. Our MBA program has been ranked among the top 3 in Asia and among the world’s top 100 MBA programs by the Economist Intelligence Unit for four consecutive years from 2004 to 2007. The Financial Times has also ranked our MBA program world’s top 50 MBA programs in 2008.