The School of Business & Accountancy (BA) is the premier provider of Business and Accountancy education at the polytechnic level in Singapore. Its rigorous curriculum, excellent student development programmes, internships with prestigious organisations, state-of-the-art facilities and dedicated teaching staff have nurtured thousands of dynamic business professionals for more than four decades since 1963.

Entrepreneurs-Connect@NP (EC@NP), a unit driven by BA, offers product and market study, business planning and development guidance, and funding through the Polytechnic’s EnterpriZe! scheme. In addition, SPRING Singapore’s Young Entrepreneurs Scheme for Startups, or YES! Startups, provides students the avenues to realise their business dreams.

To meet market demand and Singapore’s great potential in the field, BA has yet again created an industry-first by introducing the new Diploma in International Business (IBZ). IBZ will arm students with a strong foundation in business, first hand international experiences,perspectives and skills to manage businesses in a complex multi-cultural landscape. IBZ is strongly endorsed by the Singapore Business Federation.

Harnessing the Spirit of Entrepreneurship

BA is the first business school at the polytechnic level in Singapore to launch an Entrepreneurship Option for Business Studies students. Students learn the practical problems of starting a business venture under the Experiential Training for Entrepreneurship Development (EXTEND) programme. BA students’ business proposals are assessed and rewarded with seed funding of up to $3,000 under the Polytechnic’s EnterpriZe! Scheme.

EC@NP develops students’ entrepreneurial skills through activities such as networking sessions with notable business personalities, and Citi-Ideas in Action, the annual nation-wide business ideas and inventions showcase organised by Citigroup and the Learning Society. BA also offers a module on Enterprise Creation & Development, where students can acquire skills in starting a business. Students can opt to work fulltime on their start-ups in the last six months of their course.

Real Exposure

Under the Realistic, Experiential & Applied Learning (REAL) programme, BS (Marketing) students plan and implement marketing strategies, and take responsibility for their respective ventures’ bottom lines. Their counterparts in BIT develop e-business applications for companies in their second and third year of study. Under its Thumbs UP! (Training human resources for better skills – a Unique Programme), BS (HRM) students learn to manage a simulated organisation providing real life training and needs analysis, as well as plan and conduct training activities with secondary schools and businesses.

COLLABORATIONS

BA has forged close ties with local and overseas industry partners and government bodies to provide its students with excellent opportunities for internships, exchange programmes and study trips. For example, Accountancy final-year students go on six-month internships with the “Big Four” international accounting firms, government-related agencies and other commercial organisations. Similar internships are available to all BA students.

The School has also built a strong relationship with several overseas organisations and tertiary institutions for internships and immersions for BA students overseas. Each year, BA sends about 100 students to countries such as China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, UK and USA for their six-month internships. Many more went on immersions at overseas universities and international study visits. IBZ students will have an opportunity to go overseas for visits, immersions or internships, in every year of their study.  Overseas exchange programmes are conducted with Zhejiang University City College (ZUCC) to allow our students to attend classes there.

BA is the only Singapore educational institution to collaborate with the Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) on a pioneering project to develop a new financial reporting platform using eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL).

BIT also collaborates with partners such as the online auctions service provider eBay, on the Technopreneurship Incubation Programme (TIP), which allows students to develop and implement creative business-IT solutions under the mentorship of BIT lecturers and staff from the parner organisations.