Admission Policies of HR Management at National Sun Yat-Sen University
Institute of Human Resources Management : College of Management at National Sun Yat-Sen University
Admission Policies
Admission Policy for Full-time Master Program
Students seeking admissions to the master program can take one of the following two admission tracks:
1. Application track: An applicant needs to prepare and send to the department an application package
(including study plan, undergraduate course grades, two reference letters, and autobiography). Students also take an examination including one subject: Management. Based on the qualifications demonstrated in their application packages (40%) and examination grade (60%), top candidates will be interviewed in English bythe graduate admission committee of the department.
2. Entrance examination track: Students who take this track must take the graduate-study entrance
examination organized by the university. The examination subject is listed below:
Group A(Statistics) Management, Statistics
Group B(Sociology) Management, Sociology
Group C(English) Management, English
Group D(Part-time) Management, Case analysis in Human Resource Management
Based on the exam grades, top students will be interviewed in English by the graduate admission committee of the department. Group D does not need to interview.
Admission Policy for Part-time Master Program
The admission process for part-time master program in Human Resource Management consists of two stages. In thefirst stage, applicants (required a minimum of 3-year work experience) must send an application package (including 2 reference letters, working experience proof, and proof of other outstanding experience.) to the department for evaluation (given a weight of 30%) and take the entrance examination organized by the university (given a weight of 40%). Top 60 applicants with the highest performance in the first stage are selected into the second stage of the admission process. In second stage, each applicant will be interviewed by the admission committee of the department.
The performance in the stage is given a weight of 30%. Consequently, the overall performance of an applicant is the weighted sum of the three different evaluation criteria, and the top candidates will be admitted into the part-time master program in Human Resources Management.
Admission Policy for Doctoral Programs
Each applicant needs to prepare and send to the department an application package (including research plan,undergraduate and graduate course grades, three reference letters, proof of language ability and master thesis). In addition, each applicant is required to take the doctoral entrance written examination given by the doctoral admission committee of the department and also will be interviewed. Accordingly, the evaluation involves three criteria whose weights are listed as follows:
1. Past academic performance (30%)
2. Doctoral entrance written examination (40%): Subject is Management and Research Methodology.
3. Interview performance (30%).