Key-Program

International Master Degree Program of Computer Engineering

Changchun University of Science and Technology

International Master Degree Program of Computer Engineering 

(Taught in English)

1. Program Introduction

a. About Major

The computer major was established in Changchun University of Science and Technology in 1977, and it became the School of Computer Science and Technology in 1987. The school is one of the only 60 schools that were granted the qualification of conferring doctoral degrees in the first-grade discipline of computer science and technology in China. The school was approved to be the key discipline of Jilin Province on computer science and technology.

Currently, the school has three national research and education platforms including the Special Film Technique and Equipment National-Local Joint Engineering Center, the Pilot Computer Teaching Experiment Center and the Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Center of Network Security and Network Attach-Defense. Within these centers, there are 13 laboratories being located in the applied research and engineering. The school has also established long-standing cooperative relationships with some corporations and universities, such as Hitachi Medical Corporation in Japan, Okayama University, and meanwhile, the school is one of the joint graduatetraining schools of information technology within University of Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Moreover, the school has established long-standing cooperative relationships with a number of well-known multinational and domestic corporations, such as Barco, Lenovo, 360 and so on, and has made every effort to contribute the compound talents of high-level techniques and management capabilities.

b. About Teachers

Currently, the school has a qualified and responsible teaching team comprised of 52 academic staff including 13 professors (of 25%). There are 36 members having been conferred with doctoral degrees (of 69%), 8 members being entitled with several national- and provincial-level qualifications, such as “The New Century National Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talent Project”, “JilinProvince Discipline Outstanding Professor” and so on.

The teaching team assembled plenty of academic and engineering professional talents with international academic vision. There are over 60 percent of members having experienced their research work in the well-known universities at abroad, such as University of Pennsylvania (U.S.), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway), etc., and 13 members having obtained their Ph.D. from some famous universities at abroad, such as University of Bordeaux (France), Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), etc.

c. About Cultivation Direction

Through the cultivation, the master degree candidates would gain the proficiency in fundamental theories of computer science and in development of computer application systems, the capability of independently performing special tasks in the field of computer science and technology, the qualifications for jobs of teaching courses in computer application systems and of designing and developing computer application systems.

d. About Research Specialties

• Digital media technology and application

Relying on the Special Film Technique and Equipment National-Local Joint Engineering Center, the research topics include the key techniques of filmmaking and play of special films, the solid modeling of graph and image, the generation and rendering of virtual scenes, the man-computer interaction, the intelligent surveillance, the video processing techniques, as well as the applications in the corresponding research field.

• Image processing and computer vision

Relying on the Medical imaging computation engineering laboratory of Jilin Province, the research work concretes on the methodologies of computer vision, target tracking, face detection, image retrieval, image understanding, as well as the applications in intelligent robot, Identification between Friend or Foe systems, medical imaging equipment, film and video making, and playback equipment.

• Software/ network Engineering and applications

Relying on the network database application software science and technology innovation center of Jilin Province, the research work focuses on the architecture and core composition of cloud-computing servers, the technologies of the virtualization, the cloud computing platform management, the distributed computation, the distributed storage systems, the data management, the internet of things, as well as the applications of these technologies in precision agriculture, smart city, smart campus, and GIS, etc.

e. About practice and training

The professional practices are carried out directed by the supervisors within either the research centers/platform or the companies. Generally, the content of the practice is some part of one research project, during which the students participate in the project as team members. Before the practice, the students are demanded to submit their applications and practice plan. After the practice, they are required to submit their practice report. Referring to the performance of the students during the practice process, it is examined by either the supervisor from the university or the co-supervisor in the company. Once the students pass the examination, he would get 10 credit accordingly, which will be filed by the organization providing the practice. Moreover, the students are encouraged to combine their work during the practice with their thesis in order to propose and present their contribution.

2. Entry requirements

•     Non-Chinese Citizens in good health, under the age of 35;

•     Bachelor degree graduates in related disciplines;

•     Non-English native speakers or applicants whose medium of instruction during undergraduate level was not English are supposed to obtain IELTS 5.5. Minimum score for TOEFL (IBT) is 80. 200 for TOEFL (CBT), or 533 for TOEFL (PBT).

3.Application Materials

•     Photocopy of valid passport

With name, passport number & expiration date, and photo included

•     Passport photo

A recent passport-sized photo of the applicant

•     Undergraduate school transcript

Notarized photocopy

•     Bachelor's degree diploma

Graduation certificate in languages other than Chinese or English should be translated into Chinese or English and be certified by notarization.

•     English proficiency test certificate

For example, IELTS or TOEFL, only for applicant whose native language is not English.

•     Two letters of recommendation

Must be in English or Chinese. Recommendation letters prepared by university professors or associate professors, directors of the work, or authorities is a plus.

•     Study plan

Study Plan in English or Chinese, in which consist of personal information, education background, working experience, learning objectives, and interested research areas.

•     Copy of visa

Only for students who have already be in China

4. Study regulations

The course study adopts the credit system, according to which the successful master candidates must get at least 28 credit. Among the obligatory credit, there must include 10 credit get from practice session and 14 credit obtained through passing the prescribed courses.

5. Thesis regulations

The selecting title of the thesis should either originate from the practical project or have explicit engineering background. The achievement of the thesis should be valuable to the practical application, and the research problems should be challenging referring to the technical difficulty and the work load, and meanwhile the topic should be advanced. The thesis should focus any aspect of engineering research, engineering design, project planning, project management, etc. The thesis manuscript must be structured rationally, stated clearly and argued reasonably.

All the candidates could apply the defense only through passing all the courses and training as well as validating their completed thesis manuscripts 

6. Main Courses

7. Duration and Tuition Fees

Duration：2 years  Tuition Fees：22000/year

International Master Degree Program of Business Administration

Changchun University of Science and Technology

International Master Degree Program of Business Administration

(Taught in English)

1. Introduction to the Program

1. The significance of the specialty/discipline in China

Changchun University of Science and Technology (CUST) initiated the discipline of Management Science in 1980 and obtained the right to grant master’s degree in 1998. Enterprise Management has been approved as a provincial key specialty in the Eleventh 5-year Plan. Management Science and Engineering is accepted as a key specialty in the Eleventh 5-year Plan. CUST was approved to have the right to grant MBA degree in 2009.

MBA program embodies CUST’s characteristics and its superiority. Based on Management Science with multi-disciplines as its cornerstone, it is especially outstanding in the research on Strategic Management, Financial Management, Operations Management, Marketing Management, Human Resource Management and among others. CUST employs rigorous education philosophy, attaches great importance to teaching quality and focuses closely on combining theory with practice. The university has solid foundation with its coordinate development of Science, Engineering, Economics, Management, Law and Literature. CUST now has formed a featured teaching system with a formidable team of qualified teachers, rich disciplinary basis and abundant experience in running a university, favorable education environment and perfect curriculum management by means of offering excellent courses and systematic professional training.

Relying on the platform of Jilin Business Economics Research Center which is provincial university key research base of humanities, CUST engaged in research closely related to practical applications to serve local and regional economic construction. The university undertakes projects of Natural Science Fund of China, Social Science Fund of China. Faculty members have published many high-qualified papers on SCI and CSSCI with a serial research achievements which exert influence in Jilin Province and even domestically.

2. Introduction to the team of teachers

Currently there are 40 full time teachers devoting to the Program of MBA including 18 professors, 22 associate professors and 22 among them have obtained Ph. D degree. The university also employs part-time professors. Among all the academic leaders there are provincial senior experts in jilin, experts with outstanding contribution in Changchun, Discipline Experts organizing the twelfth 5-year plan and Communication Evaluation Experts Reviewed China’s Social Science Fund Projects. 5 of the faculty members have been awarded as new-century talents in Jilin Province and 2 of them have been awarded as Chunmiao Talents

The school of Management and Economics has a powerful team of teachers with international vision and capable of teaching students in English. The school has all along been positively exploring international cooperation and currently established joint-cooperation in academic research and students exchange with many universities from foreign countries. Nowadays, a majority of our excellent teachers and academic scholars have experience with oversea education in famous universities from the U.S., Japan, Germany, the Britain and among others. 

 (3) Research Orientations and Courses Arrangement

•Orientations and its introduction

a. Strategic Management

Taking strategic management idea as its guidance, modern strategic management theories as its fundamentals, the school cultivates competitive students with systematical strategic management theories and methods. In this orientation, the school encourages students to do research on business strategic decisions and core competitiveness of enterprises.

b. Financial Management

Specific to practical issues on business accounting and financial management, students taking this orientation mainly focus on research in enterprise cost control, financial risk prevention, and capital operation with basic theories and methods employed in accounting and financial management.

c. Marketing Management

In the context of globalization, the school cultivates those students who take Marketing Management as their orientation with fundamental theories and modern methods and techniques to meet the consumer’s demands. Students are supervised to do research on marketing strategies, brand management, marketing channel development, customer-relationship establishment and maintenance as well as marketing integration.

d. Operations Management

Students who take Operation Management as his or her research orientation are required to study supply chain management, logistics management, production management, information management, quality management, lean manufacturing and intellectual management by means of systematic analysis, modeling, optimizing and decision analysis, specifically to the business operations management issues in the complex production. Students are to design, develop decision-supporting system to apply to the process of enterprise’s operations management.

e. Human Resources Management

Based on human resource management theories, aiming at maximizing the efficiency of human resource management, students taking this orientation as his or her research are to learn how to allocate the personnel of an enterprise, design employees’ remuneration and manage their performance with mathematical statistics tools and methods.

•Courses on Credits

International master candidates are required to get no less than 28 credits within generally one-year course study. Courses list and specific requirements are as follows,

Table 1 Key Courses

 (4) Practical Training

Supervisors direct students to carry on their professional practice on CUST’s training platform or relating companies. In general, students should submit practice application and plan to their supervisor before they start their practice and submit a practice report after the practice is over (the report is required to be an integrated one with case analysis) Joint instructors or supervisors assess students’ performance. Qualified students will get 2 credits each, which are recorded accordingly. Students are encouraged to combine professional practice with their dissertation writing.

2. Cultivation Goal

The program aims at training students to master modern management theory, methods and skills with a global vision and strategic view. Students are supposed to be fostered as senior business administration talents with rich humanistic spirit and sense of innovation. They are to be trained to obtain theoretical knowledge with actual abilities as follows,

 (1) The ability to obtain knowledge

Through various learning forms and channels, students are expected to have a deep understanding of theory, methods, techniques and expertise at business administration. They are go get familiar with the latest developments and trends in the discipline.

 (2) The scientific research and innovation capacity

Students are expected to grasp basic research methods and techniques on business administration, and figure out relevant scientific issues from literature and management practice, so as to propose solutions to the problems. Students will be trained to have strong independent working and research capability in the field of management.

 (3) The ability of business communication

Students need to be proficient in a foreign language, and can read relevant literature review in a foreign language, as well as have the ability to use a foreign language for business communication.

 (4) Academic Exchange Capacity

Students are not only able to read foreign materials concerning their research, but also are capable of writing, translating, listening and speaking in a foreign language. Students need to have good communication skills and teamwork spirit, as well as the ability to communicate, compete and cooperate with partners under certain international perspective and cross-cultural environment.

3. Admission requirements

•      Non-Chinese Citizens in good health, under the age of 35;

•      Having bachelor degree or above in related disciplines;

•      Non-English native speakers or applicants with IELTS 5.5. Minimum score for TOEFL (IBT) 80, TOEFL (CBT) 200, or TOEFL (PBT) 533, or a certificate of English proficiency as their working language during their university study.

4. Application Materials

Photocopy of valid passport

With name, passport number & expiration date, and photo included

Passport photo

A recent passport-sized photo of the applicant

Undergraduate school transcript

Notarized photocopy

Bachelor’s degree diploma

Graduation certificate in languages other than Chinese or English should be translated into Chinese or English and be certified by notarization.

English proficiency test certificate

For example, IELTS or TOEFL, only for applicant whose native language is not English.

•   C.V.

Personal information, education background, working or internship experience, achievements in Chinese or English

•      Two letters of recommendation

Recommendation letters are required to be provided by university professors, associate professors or the like, in English or Chinese.

•Study plan

Study Plan is required to be written in English or Chinese, no less than 800 words, consisting of personal information, education background, working experience, learning objectives, and interested research areas.

•      Copy of visa

Only for students who is already in China

5. Study procedure

(1) Courses Requirement

Principally, all the courses should be finished within two semesters. Master candidates must get at least 28 credit. Students must pass all the compulsory courses and get at least 8 credits on minor courses, 4 credits on research training and academic activities. According to the students’ practical needs, Chinese course will be strengthened and required to learn as minor course.

(2) Thesis Requirements

After getting required credits, students must prepare paper proposal in the third semester, thesis writing in the third and fourth semester, and finish their thesis writing and defense at end of the fourth semester. Thesis may be a thematic research, or a case analysis report. (2 years)

6. Duration and Tuition Fees

Duration：2 years  Tuition Fees：22000/year