Don't look at the difference between business administration and business engineering, in fact, these two majors are actually very different from each other. This is because business administration is a pure liberal arts, while business administration is an engineering discipline. Can't tell the difference between the two majors? Let's take a closer look at them today.
Judging by the definition
Business Administration
Starting with the definition, let's first look at the Wikipedia of business administration, and we can see that business administration is the study of how to efficiently organize and operate a company.
If you switch the language to the Chinese version, you can find that the corresponding domestic discipline of business administration is actually business administration, which is defined as a discipline that studies the basic theories and general methods of business management.
It includes monitoring and monitoring of the entire process of business operations, but also accounting, finance, project management and marketing from a management and leadership perspective. It can be seen that from a definition point of view, the two are identical.
(Wikipedia's definition of business administration)
Business engineering
Let's take a look at the definition of business engineering. The Japanese definition is as follows:
Industrial engineering(Keiei Kogaku,British: engineering management) Is an activity related to the design, improvement, and establishment of a system that integrates people, materials, equipment, information, and energy. Expertise and experience in mathematics, physics, and social sciences, as well as engineering analysis and design principles and methods, will be used to identify, predict, and evaluate the results obtained from the system.
It can be seen that management engineering is the design, improvement, and implementation of integrated systems related to people, materials, equipment, information, and energy using engineering analysis and design methods. In addition, we use mathematics, physics, social science, and other expertise to analyze the results obtained from the system, and to make predictions and evaluations.
If the Wikipedia of business engineering is set to Chinese, the corresponding discipline is called engineering management. Including supply chain, industrial engineering, financial engineering, management and other fields.
Judging by the subjects of the exam
Next, let's take Waseda University as an example and compare the differences between the subjects of the Business Administration and Business Engineering examinations.
Business Administration
(Waseda University's Graduate School of Commerce, Business Administration Range)
It can be seen that the range of questions is 2 out of 9 from business, marketing, international business, finance, insurance, accounting, management accounting, microeconomics, and macroeconomics, and there is no mathematics test.
Business engineering
The scope of the examination for business engineering is as follows: three major mathematics (calculus, linear algebra, probability and statistics) are compulsory, and 2 of the 8 major courses are selected from 8 courses such as application of information mathematics, statistical science, system theory, planning mathematics, software engineering, production management, knowledge and information processing, and ergonomics.
It can be seen that the examination subjects of business administration are completely different from those of business administration! Business administration is mainly a liberal arts subject, and does not require the mathematics content of the examination. On the other hand, business engineering not only requires mathematics to be taken, but most of the professional courses are engineering subjects, and they are strongly related to mathematics.
Seeing this, have you clearly distinguished the difference between business administration and business engineering?
Then some students are about to ask, I understand that business administration corresponds to accounting, finance, management and other majors in domestic business, and what majors does business engineering correspond to in China?
Or another student asks, I am studying mathematics, mechanics, physics, etc., and have a foundation in engineering, can I apply for business engineering?
Next, Xiaoyuan will answer them one by one.
The most appropriate majors for business engineering are management science and engineering, industrial engineering, etc., which have studied operations research as an undergraduate and have certain programming skills. Secondly, students majoring in economics and management, computer science, and mathematics/statistics are also very suitable for business engineering.
In addition, because most of the content of the examination for business engineering in Japan is mathematics, students who have studied advanced mathematics, line generation, probability and statistics in China also have a certain advantage when preparing for the exam.
At present, there are more private colleges and universities that offer business engineering courses. It should be noted that the names of the majors in business engineering vary slightly from university to university, but the research content is basically the same.
Popular national and public institutions are:
• Department of Industrial Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Kyushu University, Graduate School of Economics, Economic Engineering
• Department of Technology Management and Strategy, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
• University of Tsukuba, Department of Social Engineering, School of Systems and Information Engineering
Popular private institutions are:
• Department of Management Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Creative Science and Technology, Waseda University
• Waseda University, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Department of Business Design
• Keio University, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Department of Open Environmental Science, Open Systems Management
• Hosei University, Department of Systems Science and Engineering, Department of Management Systems
• Aoyama Gakuin University, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Management Technology Course
• Department of Information and Communication Studies, Graduate School of Information and Communication Studies, Tokai University
The summer exam is approaching, and most colleges and universities have also updated the latest recruitment requirements, so students who are taking the exam should pay more attention to the school's official website and don't miss the application time. I wish you all the best in your favorite colleges!
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