School of Accountancy

Launched in 2001, the School of Accountancy (SoA)  is the second school to be established in SMU. SoA began with a cohort of 90 Bachelor of Accountancy students and eight faculty members. The undergraduate programme became the first American-styled broad-based accountancy programme in Singapore, with a curriculum that met the accreditation requirements of the major accounting regulatory bodies.

Currently, SoA has a faculty team of close to 50 and offers the following  distinctive programmes: the Bachelor of Accountancy, Master of Professional Accounting and most recently, Master of Science in Accounting (Data & Analytics) and PhD in Accounting. SoA also offers the joint-postgraduate programmes – Tsinghua-SMU Master of Science in CFO Leadership and SMU-ZJU Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) (Accounting and Finance). These programmes are designed in line with the development of Singapore as a leading global hub for accounting research, services and professionals for the Asia Pacific.

SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business

Singapore Management University (SMU) commenced its curriculum in 2000 with the School of Business, which welcomed its pioneer cohort of students in August 2000.  In 2004, the Lee Foundation contributed S$50 million to SMU in honour of the late Dr Lee Kong Chian, a well-known Southeast Asian businessman, philanthropist and community leader.  In recognition of the Lee Foundation's generosity, SMU named in perpetuity the School of Business, the building and the university-wide scholars programme after Dr Lee Kong Chian.

Today, Lee Kong Chian School of Business (LKCSB) is a dynamic Asian business school with about 5,500 students and over a hundred full-time faculty members with postgraduate degrees from renowned universities such as Cornell, Harvard, INSEAD, Oxford, Stanford and Yale.  The school offers undergraduate, master's (including MBA and EMBA) and doctoral programmes and is affiliated with a number of research centres such as the Institute of Service Excellence and the Centre for Marketing Excellence.

In 2011, LKCSB first received both the AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) accreditation and a five-year EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System) accreditation. For both accreditations, the School has the distinction of being one of the youngest schools in the world to be accredited. In 2016, LKCSB successfully renewed its 5 year accreditation for EQUIS and in 2021, a 5 year accreditation for AACSB. In 2018 the school was accredited by AMBA , LKCSB is one of the youngest schools in the world to have the triple crown accreditation.