Our Partners

 

Hong Kong

• Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPU)
  
• City University of Hong Kong
  
• Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education
  
• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
  
• Hong Kong University School of Professional and Continued Education (SHAPE)

Newcastle Business School enjoys partnerships with some of the top Asian universities. As a UK business school, we have a large and established presence in Hong Kong with a high number of students enrolled on our programmes. HKUST is ranked as the Number One business school in Asia and City University is ranked among the top 200 universities in the world by The Times Higher Educational Supplement. We have a highly successful student exchange programme and offer a diverse range of postgraduate and undergraduate programmes.

The School of Professional Education and Executive Development (SPEED) is a self-financed unit of Hong Kong Polytechnic University dedicated to the provision of professional, continuing education and executive development courses, particularly for mature learners.

Founded in 1999, the school offers a diverse range of full-time and part-time study programmes leading to PolyU SPEED and overseas academic awards, in partnership with various PolyU departments and renowned overseas universities. It also offers credit-bearing courses under the Credit Accumulation Mechanism, which is a flexible lifelong learning framework, and other executive development programmes. These programmes have been well received with thousands of students enrolled so far.

Exciting new developments will see SPEED moving delivery of its programmes to new campus sites in Hunghom Bay and West Kowloon during 2007/08.


India

• Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research (Mumbai)

• Birla Institute of Management (Calcutta)

Welingkar is ranked in the top 20 business schools in India. It is a member of EQUIS and is seeking AACSB accreditation in the near future. We are collaborating with the school at both postgraduate and undergraduate level.

Mexico

• Universidad Iberoamerciana, Mexico City
  

Malaysia

Newcastle Business School has been operating in Malaysia since the mid-1990s. Its three key partners at present are:

• Imperial Consulting, Malaysia

• UEM - (United Engineers Malaysia)

Imperial Consulting: The core business of Imperial Consulting is management and leadership development. In addition to this, it also leverages on the expertise of the faculty of American Management Association (AMA) and other consultants to provide value-added development and consulting services to its clients. In partnerhsip with Newcastle Business School, Imperial Consulting deliver an MSc in Business Leadership.

UEM: The UEM Group Berhad started out as United Engineers (Malaysia) Berhad in 1966, and over the years has built a reputation as Malaysia's leading conglomerate in the building of infrastructure. Their core businesses include expressways, engineering & construction, healthcare, environmental services, property, manufacturing, information, communication & technology and logistics.

In line with its role as Malaysia’s preferred partner in nation building, the UEM Group is committed to making significant contributions to the development of human and intellectual capital as well as towards enhancing the quality of life and the surrounding world. This is demonstrated by the partnerhsip between Newcastle Business School, Imperial Consulting and UEM in delivering an MSc in Business Leadership to over 300 of UEM's managers.

Peoples Republic of China (PRC)

• Wuhan University

• University of International Business and Economics, Beijing (UIBE)

• Ocean University, Qingdao

• Zhengzhou University

• Nanhang Jingeng College
  
  
• Zangnan University of Economics & Law

Newcastle Business School has established links with the top ranking universities in the PRC. We operate a joint MBA programme and a franchised undergraduate business programme in Wuhan and Ocean University, based in the leading commercial centre in PRC. We have also operated a joint MBA programme at UIBE for almost five years.

Zhengzhou is Newcastle Business School's oldest partner institution in China and is a highly ranked university. We operate a joint MBA programme and have a franchise agreement for an undergraduate business programme on the University's brand new campus.

Russia

• The Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation

• State University of Management, Moscow

• Sinerghia Institute of Economics and Finance

The State University of Management, ranked among the leading business schools in Russia, has been a Newcastle Business School Partner since 1993 when we established our first joint degree programme. We have just been awarded a three-year Bridge funding by the British Council to develop a new joint international MBA programme.


Singapore

• Marketing Institute of Singapore (MIS)

Newcastle Business School offers a wide range of postgraduate and undergraduate programmes at MIS, the professional marketing body of Singapore, notably specialist marketing courses.

Taiwan

• Southern Taiwan University of Technology

USA

• Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois

• Clarkson University, New York

• State University of West Georgia, Georgia

• Central Michigan University, Michigan
  

European Partnerships

Newcastle Business School has a number of partnerships with leading business schools and universities throughout Europe. These partnerships include executive seminars, staff and student exchanges and dual degree programmes, something which we have been perating for the past 15 years.

Austria

• Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Steyr

Denmark

• Business Academy West, Esbjerg

Finland

• Kajaani University of Applied Sciences
  
• Helsinki Metropolitain University, Helsinki

France

• Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille
  
• Grenoble Ecole de management, Grenoble
  
• ESPEME EDHEC Business School, Lille & Nice
  
• Université Pierre-Mendès, IUP Commerce et Vente / IUT2, Grenoble
  
• Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, Lyon
  
• IDRAC Ecole superieure de commerce, Lyon, Paris, Montpelier & Nantes
  
• IUT (Institut Universitaire de Technologie)
  
• Université d'Aix- Marseille III, Marseille
  
• ESCEM - Groupe Ecole Superieure de Commerce et de Management, Tours & Poitiers
  
• Groupe Sup de Co ESC, La Rochelle
  
• ESC Lille, Lille and Paris

Germany

• ABW / AIM, Stuttgart & Mannheim
  
• Hochschule Accadis, Bad Homburg
  
• Hochschule Aalen
  
• Hochschule Heilbronn
  
• Fachhochschule Gelsenkirchen
  
• Fachhochschule Erfurt
  
• Fachhochschule Düsseldorf
  
• Fachhochschule München
  
• Universität Hamburg
  
• Bénédict Akademie, Koblenz & Saarbrücken

ABW/AIM are our franchise partner in Germany where they offer the BA IBM programme at both their sites. The College also integrates NBS programmes in to their own portfolio. Accadis were the first private college in Germany to be granted Hochschule status in 1994, NBS co-operate on accadis's MBA programme alongside Frankfurt University. Newcastle Business School are involved in student exchanges with partners throughout Germany.

Newcastle Business School is also involved with Accadis (Bad Homburg) in the delivery of its MBA in Germany and there are plans to launch the Newcastle Business School MBA programme with ESC La Rochelle (France) within the next two years.

Netherlands

• Avans Hogeschool, Breda

Poland

• Krakow University of Economics
  
• University of Warsaw, Warsaw

Slovenia

• University of Ljubljani

Spain

• Escuela Universitaria de la Camara de Comercio de Bilbao
  
• Universidad de Cordoba
  
• Universidad de Cadiz
  
• Universidad de Murcia
  
• Universidad de Granada
  
• Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid
  
• MBA Business School, Tenerife / Gran Canaria

Sweden

• Chalmers University of Technology