HIT Business School, Harbin Institute of Technology

HIT was one of the first universities in China to establish economics and management programmes. In the 1940s, it set up programmes in the disciplines of railway management, engineering economics and Asian economics. In the 1950s, with help from the USSR, it began to serve as a model in the teaching of engineering economics for Chinese engineering universities. Two major programmes were established in 1954: Manufacturing Enterprise Economy, Organisation and Planning (MEEOP) and Power Enterprise Economy, Organisation and Planning (PEEOP).

Management education in China has developed rapidly in the first decade of the 21stcentury, and the pace of globalisation has accelerated. In 2002, the SoM was amongst the first group of universities in China chosen to launch an EMBA programme. Education and research are increasingly globalised in nature, and, in 2001, Management Science and Engineering at the SoM was granted the status of a first-class key discipline. (By obtaining such international business school accreditation as Association of MBA (AMBA) accreditation, the SoM will continue to strive towards training management talent that can push the society forward in line with international standards. The School also aims to extend the frontiers of international management research and create knowledge that will contribute to the world at large. We will continue our efforts to build a nationally and internationally renowned school of management and to reach first-class status in certain academic fields.