Introduction of the Business School
Founded in 1986, the Business School was the earliest and largest academic college of Ningbo University. It was established as the Department of Business and Economics in 1986, and changed name into Business School in 1999. In 2000, the Department of Management and the Center of International Economics Studies merged into the development history of the Business School.
The college has 160 full-time teachers in the college, including 40 professors,46 associate professors, 21 teachers who have won the title of national, provincial and ministerial talents, and 131teachers with doctoral degrees. There are 2,295 undergraduates and 1,181 master's and doctoral students.
The Business School has the central government supported key discipline construction projects of local universities, “Applied Economics”, the central government supported laboratory construction projects, “Modern Business Comprehensive Experimental Platform”, the Zhejiang Provincial Social Science Key Research Base “Marine Culture and Economic Research Center”, Provincial Social Science Base "China United Front Theoretical Research Association Non-public Ownership Economics United Front Work Theory Research Base", Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center "Port Economic Collaborative Innovation Center"and the province’s new university think tank, “China’s non-public economic research base”, and “Ningbo University East China Sea Research Institution”.
Over the past five years, the college has focused on connecting with and serving the economic development of the country and the region. It has delved deeply into the good stories of economic operation and development in Ningbo and Zhejiang, and distilled them into theoretical propositions of general significance for academic research. The college's teachers have published nearly 445 papers in renowned Chinese journals such as Economic Research and Management World, and 291 papers in SSCI and SCI English journals, including over 20 highly cited papers. They have also obtained 53 new national research projects, including 7 major and key projects of the National Social Science Fund, and 100 new provincial and ministerial research projects. They have won 12 provincial and ministerial research achievement awards, including 2 second prizes of the Outstanding Research Achievement Award of the Ministry of Education (Humanities and Social Sciences) and 4 first prizes of the Zhejiang Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award (including 2 where our university ranked second).
The School adheres to the main development line of “consolidating direction, highlighting characteristics, strengthening innovation, and enhancing connotation.”; creates a culture of “legal-spirited, integrity-valued, market-oriented, morality-first”; cultivates the spirit of the business of "taking the truth as the conviction and the world as the responsibility"; Building a "commitment-career-happiness"-based community of business communities; Practised the business mission of “creating knowledge, cultivating elites, inheriting civilization, and promoting progress”, and endeavors to make significant contributions to the construction of comprehensive research universities and key provincial universities, and has continued to work hard to build a first-class business school in China.
Data updated to 2026.06
