The Department of Business Administration stems from the Teaching and Research Section of Management Engineering which was set up in 1983, and was upgraded into the department in 1998. There is 1 doctoral program concerned and 2 master programs concerned. Its main research areas are as follows: the study of SME, the study of management and ethics, the research on application of complex system theory. Its key scientific research projects are as follows: Study on the SME Credit Guarantee (Chinese National Social Science Foundation) Reform and Development of Small Enterprise (UN Development Program).
This department, created in2001, now owns 31 teaches, of which 3 are doctoral supervisors, 5 are professors, 17 are associate professors, 10 have doctorates, 18 have master degrees, 2 are provincial excellent talents, and among which several teachers obtained doctorates or have been visiting scholars in German, Japan, etc. Respectively.
This department has recruited undergraduate students since 1994 and now there are more than 480 undergraduate students are studying there. The business administration is the brand major in Jiangsu province.

Business Administration

This major belongs to the brand characteristic major of Jiangsu Province.
Educational Objectives: This major aims at cultivating the high-level management talents with good knowledge structure of Management, higher management quality and stronger innovation competence, familiar with policies and regulations of enterprise management, who are fit for the management post in the enterprises, institutions and department of administrative management., and suitable for management research in the research academies and institutes.
Training Features: This major belongs to the first brand majors of Jiangsu University and the brand major of Jiangsu Province. This major conducts chiefly the teaching and training in terms of the main functions of business enterprise management such as site management, organization management, marketing management, financial management, human resource management, international enterprise management, etc as well as the application of computer and information technology in order to demonstrate the professional characteristics of our major and enable the students to find employment of management system development, integrated management, planning management, quality management, management training, engineering project analysis, etc.
Main courses: Management,economics,Operations research, Management information system, statistics, Accountancy,Financial management, Production management, Quality management ,The enterprise strategic management ,Project management, Economic law, Human resources management, marketing management, etc.
The employment situation and trends: The employment situation of this major is good. The employment rate stays above 98% in the recent three years. Graduates can be in engaged in comprehensive management works or work for the special management business (such as production, marketing, science and technology, trade, talent, finance, information, etc.) of all kinds of profits or nonprofit organizations, and they also can work in college, scientific research units to do scientific research or teaching, etc.