BBA in Operations Management

PROGRAM CURRICULUM

 

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

 

What's so special about our program?
  • Prepare you academically and professionally for the managerial positions involved in the production and delivery of goods and services in a variety of organizations.
  • Equip you with the technical competence, analytic ability, and leadership capability for advancing your future career in an increasingly dynamic and competitive global economy.
  • Focus on advanced management concepts as well as the techniques and integrated nature of decision-making in operations, logistics, and supply chain management.
  • Learn from a group of world-class professors in subjects that are very important to the economic development of key industries in Hong Kong and beyond.

OPTIONS

 

The BBA-OM Program offers two options for students to have specialization in their respective areas.  Students may opt to graduate with or without an option.

Students who take an option MUST complete all requirements specified in addition to the major requirements.  Courses are taken as Option Required Courses CAN NOT be counted towards the OM major requirements.

Business Analytics Option (for 2014-15 intake and after)
OPTION REQUIRED COURSES Credits
ISOM 3360 - Data Mining for Business Analytics* 3 credits
ISOM 3900 - Decision Analytics 3 credits
Extra required courses/credits for BA Option 2 courses (6 credits)

* ISOM3360 is an IS course which cannot be used to fulfil the BBA-OM major requirements except as a required course for this BA Option.

Besides the Option Required Courses as listed above, students should take 4 elective courses (selected from a restricted list of OM and statistics courses):

- ISOM 3530      Business Data Analytics
- ISOM 3540      Introduction to Probability Models
- ISOM 4520      Statistics for Financial Risk Management
- ISOM 4530      Statistical Analysis of Financial Data in R/S-plus
- ISOM 4540      Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
- ISOM 4720      Simulation in Business and Management
- ISOM 4740      Enterprise Resource Management
- ISOM 4780      Integrated Planning and Execution
- ISOM 4810      OM Best Practices
- ISOM 4820      Revenue Management
- ISOM 4830      Analytics for Service Operations
- ISOM 4840      Financial Service Operations Management
- ISOM 4880      Operations Management Project

 

Supply Chain Management Option (for 2017-18 intake and after) 
OPTION REQUIRED COURSES Credits
ISOM 3760 - Logistics Management 3 credits

Choose ONE course from the list:

*ISOM 3730 Quality and Process Management (2018-19 intake and after)/
ISOM 4740 Enterprise Resource Management/
ISOM 4750 Business Project Management /
ISOM 4780 Integrated Planning and Execution

 3 credits
Extra required courses/credits for SCM Option 2 courses (6 credits)
 

* Students admitted in the 2017-18 intake should take ISOM 3770/ISOM 4740/ISOM 4750/ISOM 4780 in addition to ISOM 3760

Besides the Option Required Courses listed above, students should complete the BBA-OM major requirements as specified in the BBA-OM "Program Curriculum" section.  For the Elective(s), students may take any 4 ISOM courses coded between 3500 and 3999; 4500 and 4999  with a minimum of 12 credits.  Courses taken as Option Required Courses under BBA-OM CAN NOT be reused to count towards the OM major program requirements (neither OM required course nor OM elective course) at the same time.

 

Declaration of Option 

Students who wish to declare the BA or SCM Option can do so in their FINAL term of study by completing an online application form and submit to bbaom@ust.hk before the deadline announced in each term. We will inform students of the link to fill in the form and the submission deadline before each regular term by email.