Overview

About 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 and doctoral programmes and is affiliated with a number of research centres such as the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics (SKBI), and the Singapore Green Finance Centre (SGFC).

The Lee Kong Chian School of Business (LKCSB) is distinguished as one of the youngest business schools globally to achieve the prestigious ‘triple-crown’ accreditation. This recognition is conferred by three leading accrediting bodies: the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the European Foundation for Management Development Quality Improvement System (EQUIS), and the Association of Masters of Business Administration (AMBA). In 2011, LKCSB was first awarded both the highly esteemed AACSB and EQUIS accreditations for a period of five years, the maximum duration granted at that time. The school successfully maintained these accreditations through Peer review in 2016 and 2021. In 2018, LKCSB received the AMBA accreditation for its MBA suite programs, and was successfully re-accredited in 2023. Maintaining the highest accreditation standards marks LKCSB's commitment to excellence in business education.