Guangdong University of Foreign Studies Business School

The School of Business of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (SoB of GDUFS) is the 26th business school in China and the 225th globally to receive accreditation from AMBA. Additionally, it is the third business school in China to be accredited by EPAS, and was selected in the inaugural group of the national innovation and entrepreneurship education practice bases by the Ministry of Education. In line with the motto of GDUFS, “Pursuit of Integrity, Practice and Cross-Cultural Learning”, SoB adheres to its educational focus of “maintaining a global perspective rooted in Chinese business philosophy”. It is committed to nurturing high-caliber international business professionals and practices the SMILE values: Social Responsibility, Mutual Respect, Integrity, Learning by Doing, and Entrepreneurship. Pursuing both internationalization and digitalization, SoB aims to evolve into a top-tier, internationally recognized business school with distinctive features and exceptional quality. SoB’s Business Administration program, which ranked in China’s top 19% of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) in 2023, is a key discipline in Guangdong Province and part of the high-level university construction program. SoB collaborates with the Department of Economics and Management in a doctoral program for the primary discipline of Applied Economics, five doctoral programs for subdisciplines, 13 master programs for primary discipline, and 9 professional master programs. SoB offers two master's programs for primary disciplines of Business Administration and Management Science and Engineering, two master's degree programs for secondary disciplines of Business Management and Technical Economics and Management, and two professional master's degree programs: Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Applied Psychology. Undergraduate majors encompass Business Administration, Marketing, Human Resource Management, E-commerce, and Supply Chain Management. Among them, Business Administration, Marketing and Human Resource Management are national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, and E-commerce is provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites. SoB actively promotes the internationalization strategy and adheres to the path of “emphasizing accreditation, fostering development through evaluation, and promoting connotative development and continuous enhancement of internationalization”. It achieved AMBA international accreditation, EFMD program accreditation (EPAS), and BGA gold accreditation, and received the AMBA & BGA Global Business Excellence Award. SoB has established cooperative relationships with over 60 international institutions, including the University of Queensland in Australia, Arizona State University in the United States, Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, Grenoble Ecole de Management in France, Massey University in New Zealand, and the University of Ulsan in South Korea, etc. These partnerships have facilitated in-depth cooperation in various areas such as double-degree programs, student exchanges, short-term study tours, joint scientific research, and the co-organization of academic conferences. Additionally, as a leading unit among Chinese universities, its ERASMUS+LMPT program with the European Union was awarded as “excellent”.