University of International Business and Economics

Brief Introduction

Accounting education in UIBE is in the leading position among Chinese universities. With the excellent faculty and administration, also abundant experience about initiation of international programs,BusinessSchool is launching an International Master of Accounting (IMAcc) program.

Teaching Objective

The program is a two-year program for full-time students, is suitable for international students with bachelor degree in any discipline who desire to acquire accounting education in advanced level. Students can be equipped with necessarily basic knowledge at the beginning stage of the program, which can ensure everyone to be ready for the advanced accounting coursework.

IMAcc program also provides students various electives related to branches of Business Administration which can broaden their horizon and deepen their cognition on business, students therefore can make business decisions from multiple perspectives besides financial analysis.

The language of instruction is English and all the credits required by the program can be completed within one year. There are three academic sessions in one year: Spring Session (from February to May), Summer Session (from June to July) and Fall Session (from September to December).

Curriculum of IMAcc

Advantages

Accounting education and research in Business School is in the leading status among Chinese universities. Business School until now has 30 professors, 33 associate professor and 22 lecturers. A lot of professors are the members of associations of certified accountants.

Business School has strong relationship with famous accounting firms, like Deloitte, KPMG, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Ernst & Young, also collaborating closely with international professional associations such as ICAEW (UK), ACCA (UK), HKICPA (Hong Kong), CGA (Canada) and CPA (Australia). It is more convenient for our students to know about these firms and associations, which will benefit the students’ employment and certified accountant examinations.

Besides the courses relative to accounting and finance, students also can take some MBA courses to strengthen their recognition on economic environment and business administration. With specialty and also with general knowledge about administration, an individual can be potentially to be in management position.

Students in IMAcc Program also have opportunities to study in universities abroad for one semester as exchange students. BusinessSchool or UIBE has cooperation with many universities overseas, such as University of Cologne, Baruch College, and Brock University. Students have the chances to apply for the exchange program twice a year.

Degree Requirements 

A student must complete the following requirements in order to earn a Master of Management degree: 

1. Course work: Each student in this program is required to complete 40 credits, including 31 credits of eight compulsory courses and 9 credits of elective courses, among which at least 4 credits of accounting electives are requested, with grades above 60 on a 100 scale.

2. Graduation thesis writing: having completed all the required credits, a student can start writing the graduation thesis (equivalent to 4 credits) under the supervision of an advisor appointed by the school. The thesis is supposed to be no less than 8000 words. Besides, the students can also take an internship and write a thesis related to the internship experience during the period of study, and maximally 6 credits can be obtained from the internship and the thesis writing.

The required minimum work hours for Internship are as follows:

Full-time: 8 Weeks with a minimum of 320 total hours.

Part-time: 15 weeks with a minimum of 320 total hours.

Academic Calendar

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