Department of Business Administration, Tunghai University
The department of business administration, Tunghai University was founded in1973. The department holds the tradition of Tunghai which concerning with humanity and society, and applies professional teaching resources in college of management to reach the aim of generalist education. Our goal is to foster the talents with team-work, innovative and executive abilities that society and industry need, and expect these talents will be problem-solvers, qualified decision-makers, excellent entrepreneurs and leaders in the future.
In 1979, Tunghai invited several noted entrepreneurs to sponsor to foundation of “Business Seminar.” Several teachers in our department were positive to hold activities such as academic speech, seminars and training class, etc. Our department also strived to establish “SMEs Research and Training Center of Central Taiwan”, and engaged experts to counsel SMEs and provided consulting services such as course design and business management. In last two decades, “Business Seminar” not only offers business industry an opportunity for advanced study and training( so far the number of trainees is over tens of thousands), but also provides teachers and students a channel to contact, to learn, and to cooperate with industry, then strengthen their power of business administration.
In order to promote the education of business administration, our department founded the BA institute in 1982 which was the earliest BA institute in central Taiwan. Our aim is to foster professionals with team-work, creative thinking, executive and self-learning abilities that adapts to diverse development tendency of economy and society. For the sake of reinforcing directors’ managerial ability, we established Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) in 2006. Now Tunghai BA department has undergraduate school, graduate school, and EMBA. There are 18 full-time faculties, 7 teaching assistants, 15 part-time faculties, and several supported teachers from related-departments in our department who are possessing of high professional knowledge and enthusiasm of teaching.
On teaching, we concentrate on fostering students to possess the capacities of information technology practice, problem analysis, problem solving, human relation and communication, creative and innovative thinking and leadership. We also actively do research programs with industry and related institutes, in order to strengthen students’ comprehension of business operation, and reinforce students’ practice training and make them apply knowledge to innovation. We arrange suitable courses and activities such as Practice of Creative Thinking, Practice of Entrepreneurship, Practice of Business Operation, etc.
We are the largest department in Tunghai, with about 700 undergraduate students and 87 graduate students. Our students have outstanding performance in various industries after graduated. Students who graduate from our department have wide and flexible options; they can choose direction for future development according to their interests and capacities. For instance, work in business corporations and put knowledge into practice or pursue advanced studies like master or PhD degree and present research achievement.
