The business education of Hohai University can be traced back to the establishment of the Hohai Engineering School in 1915. In 1927, the school was renamed as Hohai Engineering University and business subjects were setup in university. In 1979, business education was resumed in the time of East China School of Hydraulic Engineering. In 1983, Management Engineering Department was established. Hohai University is one of the pioneer universities that have business discipline after reform and opening-up.

 Taking the character of water as our highest standard of behavior and morality, Business School of Hohai University strives to make contributions to our community and society. Our mission is to pursue excellence in knowledge creation, integration and application, and to breed practical business elites. With the excellence of dedicated service in water industry, our vision is to become an innovative business school with worldwide reputation. Our strategy is to develop by providing high quality business education, improving the internationalization of the school, entering the mainstream of management education and research, and maintain distinctive characteristics in water industry. The school, together with the faculty and students, has been dedicating to growth and innovation by adopting a development model that incorporates education, research, consulting and training. With the effort and innovation of all teachers and students, we have successfully turned the school into one of the top business schools in China, which can provide high level education, scientific research, social service, and culture communication. Business School of Hohai University now integrates the three mainstream disciplines of business administration, management science and engineering and applied economics, provides a wide variety of degree options at the doctorate, master (including MBA and Master of Engineering) and bachelor levels, and has two postdoctoral programs. 

 Business School of Hohai University has advanced hardware facilities and research conditions. The new office building has a total capacity of 37800 square meters with 26000 square meters of the main building being facilitated with central air conditioning. Each of the faculty has a separated office with 16 square meters. Moreover, there is an area of 11000 square meters for research institutes and labs, and the teaching area takes up 7800 square meters. The documentation center of our school occupies 2300 square meters, in which 1100 square meters is utilized as reading area. There are more than 300 thousand academic books in the center. 

 Business School of Hohai University has a complete discipline system, and two postdoctoral programs of Business Administration, Management Science and Engineering. Business School has two first-level doctoral programs: Management Science and Engineering, Business Administration; five first-level master degree programs: Management Science and Engineering, Business Management, Applied Economics, Theoretical Economics, and  Library Information and Archieves Manegement.  Furthermore, it has six professional master degree programs: Master of Finance, International Business, Assets Appraisal, Business Administration (MBA), MPAcc, Engineering Management. There are seven undergraduate majors: International Trade, Financial Management, Engineering Management, Human Resources Management, Accounting, Marketing, Information Management and Information System. 

Technical Economics and Management in Business School of Hohai University is the national key cultivating discipline, as well as the key discipline in the Ministry of Water Resources and Jiangsu Province. Business Administration is the first-level key discipline in Jiangsu province. Engineering Management and Project Management are awarded the key disciplines in Jiangsu Province.  In the fourth round of descipline evaluation process organized by the ministry of Education in China, the descipline of Business Administration and Management Science and Engineering of HHBS got the grade of B+, ranking the top 20% of all the participating universities.

During the recent five years, Business School of Hohai University has got 120 million RMB research funds. It has received 21 projects supported by National Social Science Funds, 14 projects supported by National Natural Science Funds.  It has published 122 SCI/SSCI papers, and nearly 600 CSSCI papers. Besides, HHBS has also hosted nine large-scale international conferences. It has newly established four research centers approved by provincial and ministerial government. “International River Strategy and Informatics Monitoring Research Team” was selected as the innovation team by Ministry of Education in China. 　 

Up until December, 2017, Business School of Hohai University has 142 full-time faculty members, including 32 professors and 53 associate professors. Faculty with  Doctor's degree takes up 78%. 

 In the past five years, there are more than 5000 students at Business School of  Hohai University per year on average. Now, there are 4874 enrolled students in  total, including 617 Ph.D. candidates, 515 academic master degree candidates,  1846 professional master degree candidates, 1716 undergraduate students,180 international students. Among the professional master  degree students, there are 738 MBA students, 209MPAcc students and 863 ME  students. 

Hohai University has started the application for several International Accreditations, including AACSB Accreditation, EQUIS Accreditation, AMBA Accreditation, PMI Accreditation and IPMP Accreditation.

In May 2015,  the MBA program of HHBS has achieved AMBA accreditation. 

In August 2015, the ME program ( Project Management) of HHBS has achieved PMI-GAC accreditation.