【Congratulations】Faculty of Business and Faculty of Finance of CityU Accredited BGA Gold Status and Silver Status Respectively
The Faculty of Business and Faculty of Finance of the City University of Macau were accredited the Gold Status and Silver status respectively by The Business Graduates Association (BGA), a leading global quality assurance institution of business education. Both were the first to have received such accreditation in Macau, testifying the high quality, high standard, professionalism and internationalization of CityU programs.
BGA is an international membership and quality assurance body of world-leading and high-potential business schools. It focuses on increasing the impact of business schools on students and communities in order to cultivate socially conscious and responsible leaders. GBA works with senior academics at top educational institutions around the world to update accreditation criteria continuously and maintain a highly internationalized and scientific approach to ensure that high-quality educational institutions receive authoritative evaluation. The panel of assessors comprised of senior business school leaders from across the globe commended the Faculty of Business and Faculty of Finance of CityU for their strong and authoritative leadership, internationalization development plan, improvement of the teaching assistant system, emphasis placed on the sustainable development of students and cooperation with the visits by the accreditation team. President Jun Liu said that the award of BGA gold and silver accreditation respectively to the Faculty of Business and Faculty of Finance of CityU on the one hand reflected their contributions to students, communities, industries and higher education, demonstrating CityU’s strength in teaching business and finance, and, on the other hand, showed the achievements that CityU had made in the quality assurance of its programs, development of featured courses, enhancement of its teaching team and the formation of learning models, signifying another step forward for CityU on its path of international accreditation for and internationalization of programs. Rector Jun Liu hoped that in the future, the two Faculties would continue to give full play to the special characteristics of their programs and teaching, attract more students from home and abroad and continue to cultivate outstanding talent. The Faculty of Business of CityU aims to cultivate interdisciplinary senior management and economic talent who can meet the requirements of different industries. It offers all level of degree programs, including Bachelor’s, Master and PhD programs in Business Administration and strives to enhance students' professional knowledge and skills and to improve their ability of comprehensive analysis and leadership through a learning model that places emphasis on both theories and practice. In addition, in response to the development of the international situation and the shortage of international business elites, the Faculty of Business offered the International Business Cohort program. With an aim to nurture business elites with forward looking international horizons and strategic perspectives, the program adopts the mentorship approach and use English as the medium of instruction. The Faculty is the first business school that has received BGA gold status accreditation in Macau.
The Faculty of Finance of CityU strives to cultivate distinctive financial professionals in order to respond to the SAR government’s strategy of constructing the Sino-Portuguese Financial Service Platform and developing a financial center with distinctive features. It offers all levels of degree programs, including Bachelor of Applied Economics, MSc in Finance and PhD in Finance. It also offers the small-class Finance Elite Cohort program taught in English and the Joint Certificate Program with International Association of Registered Financial Consultants. The Faculty was set up in 2018. As a vigorous and vibrant rising star of the University, it keeps abreast of the demands and development trends of the financial industry of Macao and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to contribute to the regional development of distinctive finance. The Faculty is the first financial school that has received BGA silver status accreditation in Macau.
In the future, CityU will continue to adhere to its strategy of “international vision + humanistic characteristics”, stand on a broader and more forward-looking global platform, capture diversified patterns and trends of humanistic development of the world, leverage new technologies and new trends of the information era and give full play to the forward looking and integration ability of humanities to develop into an international metropolitan university, keeping up its efforts to cultivate practical and interdisciplinary talent for Macao, the Greater Bay Area and the country.
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