Master of Business Administration

 
1.         Objective
    The MBA degree gainers should grasp extensive and modern management knowledge and necessary basic theories, and are familiar with the trend of China economic construction and energy industry and the new development of modern management theory. They must have high adaptability, judgment, decision making ability, organization and commanding ability, communication skills. They must master at least one foreign language, and can read successfully specialized foreign materials.
 
2.         Core Courses
Classification
Number
Course Title
Hour
Credit
Semester
Remark
Degree
Course
Public Degree Course
 
Business English
64
4
 
Required
 
Theory and Practice of Socialist Market Economy
 
32
2
 
 
Required
 
Data, Modeling, and Decision Making
48
3
 
Required
Basic Course
 
Managerial Economics
32
2
 
Required
 
Finance Accounting
48
3
 
Required
 
Finance Management
48
3
 
Required
 
Economic Law
32
2
 
Required
Specialize Course
 
Marketing Management
48
3
 
Required
 
Organizational behavior
 
32
2
 
Required
 
Strategy Management
48
3
 
Required
 
Operation Management
32
2
 
Required
 
Management Information Service
32
2
 
Required
 
Human Resource Management
32
2
 
Required
Required
 
Literature Review and Proposal Report
 
1
 
Defense
 
Integrated Business Management Practice Report
 
2
 
 
Elective
 
Business Ethics and Culture
32
2
 
At least 6
 
 
Management Communication
32
2
 
 
Project Management
32
2
 
 
Game Theory of Management
32
2
 
 
Technical Economics
32
2
 
 
Investment
32
2
 
 
International Energy Corporate Strategy Management
32
2
 
 
Leadership and Execution
32
2
 
 
Energy Economics
32
2
 
 
Macroeconomics
32
2
 
 
Merger and Reorganization
32
2
 
 
Risk Management
32
2
 
 
Energy Finance
32
2
 
 
Financial Statement Analysis
32
2
 
 
Tax Accounting and Tax Planning
32
2
 
 
Cost Management Accounting
32
2
 
 
Oil and Gas Accounting
32
2
 
 
International Trade
32
2
 
 
International Finance
32
2
 
 
International Trade Practice
32
2
 
 
International Petroleum Economics
32
2
 
 
International Business Negotiations
32
2
 
 
Cross-Cultural and Communication
32
2
 
 
Consumer Behavior
32
2
 
 
Market Research
32
2
 
 
Fuels Marketing
32
2
 
 
International Marketing
32
2
 
 
Logistics and Supply Chain Management
32
2
 
 
3.         Graduation & Degree Requirements
A student is admitted to get the degree of Master having met the following requirements:
(1)  Satisfactory completion of all required core and elective courses;
(2)  Satisfactory completion of the research requirement;
(3)  Satisfactory completion of theThesis.
 
Detailed requirements
  •   Literature Review and Thesis Proposal
Students in general should complete the proposal defense before the third semester.
Thesis proposal should be limited in the range of academic subjects. MBA student’s dissertation can be monographic study, high quality research paper, enterprise diagnosis report, high quality case. Thesis topic encourages students to combine with own practical work, especially with the difficult problems of China reform and construction and the practice of enterprise management. Thesis proposal should include the introduction, background, the current situation and development trend of relevant researches, research objective and content, methodology, feasibility analysis, expected  key technologies and difficulties, thesis detailed research progress, primary references and so on. Each master student must read at least 30 relevant research papers before proposal defense, where the number of foreign references is at least 5. The report needs to be written based on the requirement of graduate school and department on literature review report pattern, which consists of at least 6000 words. During the proposal presentation, the literature review report is evaluated by committee group.
Literature review and proposal report is evaluated by advisor (group), the committee group has 3-5 persons, including advisor and teachers from related research field. The committee group needs make strict review on the literature review and proposal report, and give the comments. The advisor makes grading by percentages, after considering the committee group’s  opinions. Students whose scores are above 70 can be recorded as pass and given one credit. Teachers and master students are encouraged to attend the proposal presentation. Advisors in related research field should be invited to attend the interdisciplinary proposal defense. Students who fail in the research proposal report are allowed to restart a new proposal or asked to quit, both determined by the supervisor. Students who want to restart a new proposal should submit applications and get approval by the supervisor and the original committee group. The restart should be completed within 3 months.
 
  • Thesis defense
The thesis defense of master students needs to be carried out followingChina University of Petroleum (Beijing) on Degree Granting Provisional Rules for Implementation. The thesis quality level is evaluated based on the ability theory to solve practical problems using economic and management theory. One of the MBA student’s dissertation reviewer and defense committee members must be either expert from practical work department with senior professional technology title or manager from an enterprise with senior management position.
 
 
(4)    Career Prospects
This program prepares advances professionalsqualified for middle and senior management positions at large and medium-sized enterprises after short term practical trainin.
Source: The executive office Date: 2015-04-22