Program Overview

EMBA Program Overview

The EMBA Program, offered by the Department of Industrial Management (DIM) of the Taiwan Tech School of Management, is a degree program for working professionals who wish to upgrade their knowledge and practical skills in the field of industrial management. With a study period of one to four years – allowing for a two-year extension – and a flexible curriculum structure, our program can be customized to individual career plans and aligned with students' personal and work lives.

Program Structure

The EMBA Program provides an advanced business education in the field of industrial management, where students can choose courses from four concentrations, i.e. Production Systems, Operation Research, Human Factor/Ergonomic, and Information Technology. In their electives, students have access to a wide range of courses offered by the School of Management, and other Taiwan Tech departments.

Admission Requirements

The entry requirement for the EMBA program is a bachelor's degree (or equivalent) from a recognized institution of higher education and working experience. As the language of instruction of our EMBA program is mainly Chinese, proficiency in both English and Mandarin will be necessary.

Credit Requirements

The EMBA program in Industrial Management requires 45 credits towards graduation:

1. 6 credits (2 courses) from basic core courses offered by the DIM
2. 15 credits from elective core courses offered by the DIM
3. 18 credits from free electives
4. A course on Research Techniques (3 credits)
5. A course on Case Studies (3 credits)

Further Requirements for Graduation

• Three prerequisite courses (6 credits) which are not included in the 45 credit requirement.
• A written Master's Thesis (0 credits)
• Seminar Academic Research Ethics (0 credits)

Tuition Fee

The basic tuition fee is NTD 99,000 per semester, plus a miscellaneous fee of around NTD 15,000. One credit costs 11,000 NTD. For a maximum of 9-12 transferred credits, the tuition fee may be waived. Application for credit transfer and fee deduction can only be submitted once, in the first semester after enrollment.

Program Details

Prerequisites

The DIM EMBA program invites applicants with an undergraduate degree or above in any discipline. However, basic knowledge in business/economics is deemed necessary for the successful completion of the program. Thus, all EMBA students are required to take:

• course titled or equivalent (2 credits)
• course titled or equivalent (2 credits)
• course titled or equivalent (2 credits)

Research Techniques/Case Studies

EMBA students have to take at least one of the following courses (3 credits) to familiarize themselves with state-of-the-art research techniques in the field of business studies:

• Case Analysis and Writing (3 credits)
• Research Methods (3 credits)
• Qualitative Research Methods (3 credits)
• Statistical Data Analysis and Application (3 credits)

Basic Core Courses

These are courses, offered by the DIM, which are considered as fundamental in the field of Industrial Management. EMBA students have to complete at least two of the following courses:

• Production and Operations Management (3 credits)
• Marketing Management (3 credits)
• Organization and Management (3 credits)
• Management and Information System (3 credits)
• Financial Management (3 credits)
• Case Analysis and Writing (3 credits)

Elective Core Courses

EMBA students have to choose five of the following courses offered by the DIM:

• Quality Management and Case Study
• Service Experience and Management
• Innovation and Business Process Re-engineering
• Managerial Psychology and Human Factors Design
• Total Quality Management
• Lean Production and Management
• Intelligent Electronic Business Management
• Global Logistics Management and Headquarter Planning
• Project Management

Free Elective Courses

The remaining 18 credits (6 courses) can be earned through graduate-level elective courses offered by any other department or graduate institute of the School of Management, or other colleges of Taiwan Tech.

Overseas Study or Practice

EMBA students have the chance to take courses abroad, i.e. Overseas Business Studies (海外企業研習) or Overseas Business Practices (海外企業經營實務) for which a maximum of 6 credits may be granted.

Academic Research Ethics Seminar

As a requirement by the Taiwan Ministry of Education, all graduate students enrolled at universities in Taiwan have to complete seminars in Academic Research Ethics (ARE) which usually consist of three teaching units, where the first two units are lectures, while the last unit is a test. All Taiwan Tech graduate students are required to attend at least one research ethics seminar before the end of the first year of studies, and to pass the ARE-exam.

Credit Transfer

For detailed information, please refer to the regulations for credit transfer for the EMBA program of the School of Management. EMBA students may transfer a maximum of 12 credits from previous degree studies at Taiwan Tech. The transfer of credits earned at graduate schools of other universities is limited to a maximum of 6 credits. Application for credit transfer and fee deduction can only be submitted once, in the first semester after enrollment.

Choosing an Advisor

The Master's thesis is an important part of the EMBA program and a requirement for graduation, although no credits are awarded for the thesis. EMBA students have to choose a thesis advisor before the end of the first semester after admission. Students are free to choose the topic of their thesis, but they need to get approval from their advisor at an initial stage of the thesis-writing process.

Defense and Graduation

Master's Degree Thesis Oral Examination ("Defense")

A first draft of the thesis has to be completed and submitted to the advisor within the designated period of studies. If all other credit requirements are fulfilled, students can apply for the Master's Degree Thesis Oral Examination where they have to defend their thesis to a panel of experts. The defense can only be held during the semester, the time period is indicated in the NTUST Academic Calendar. The application for the defense has to be submitted to the DIM office two months (summer term) or one month (winter term) before the beginning of the examination period. The DIM requires students to hand in a positive Similarity Report (less than 20% in content, excluding references, appendixes, surveys etc.) of the Plagiarism Detection Checker software which is provided by the NTUST library.

After a successful defense, students will have to revise their thesis according to the feedback given by the committee members. As a rule, all NTUST postgraduate thesis have to be published. Under special circumstances (such as pending patent applications or publications), the student can apply for a delay of publication ("Embargo of Thesis/Dissertation") with the NTUST Library. The application, including supporting documents, needs to be approved by the thesis advisor.