Publish Date: 2010-09-12 《Manager》magazine

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School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University and CEIBS tied for first place. Guanghua School of Management, Peking University ranked number one for graduates’ satisfaction.

 

Twenty years ago in October 1990, The Ministry of Education approved nine universities to pilot MBA education in 1991, which started the era of China MBA education.

 

Twenty years later in September 2010, “China Best MBA Ranking 2010” was published. China MBA education had been fully developed. The institutes with MBA degree program increased from nine to 192 as the annual intake of students increased from 94 to over 30,000. MBA education delivers outstanding management talent to China’s economic development. Tsinghua School of Economics and Management, CEIBS, Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management and Antai Business School are becoming more internationally well known and are joining the world top business school list.

 

Since 2004, <Manager>, China’s financial and management magazine with the largest circulation, has studied China’s MBA programs biannually based on the internationally accepted practices as an independent third party. In 2010, it was the fourth time <Manager> published the China MBA ranking. The range of business schools reached from less than 40 to 60 and the rankings expanded from top 20 to top 30. <Manager> contributes tremendously in promoting the fast and healthy growth of China MBA education.

 

The biannual ranking gives us enough time to study and analyze the changes in China’s MBA education and decided on the direction for future development and reform. As before, after the “2008 Ranking”, China MBA experienced many changes. For example, 55 new programs were approved in 2009, increasing the total approved MBA programs to 182. The total number of MBA programs almost reached 190 by adding CEIBS and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. The economic crisis, to a certain degree, stimulated the development of China MBA education and encouraged the curriculum and admission reforms in many major business schools in order to follow the global MBA trend.

 

Under the current uncertainty of economy, what are changes for this ranking?

 

Top Ten without Much Change

 

The top position is shared by Tsinghua School of Economics and Management (SEM) and CEIBS. This is the first time that there is a tie for first place. Tsinghua SEM has consecutively been ranked number one four times and maintains the best faculty, branding, employer appraisal to graduates and other important factors. In the past rankings, CEIBS was in second place by a small gap. Benefiting from salary of graduates and career progress, CEIBS raised to number one this year, tied with Tsinghua SEM.  

 

Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, remained number three. Although Guanghua ranked after Tsinghua and CEIBS, the gap is very small in both overall ranking and individual fields. This is especially true in regard to the satisfaction from graduates, where Guanghua is the number one among all schools. In fact, the top three programs are overall at same level. The active reforms carried by Tsinghua and CEIBS add to their strength and keep them at the top.  

 

Shanghai Jiaotong Antai MBA and Zhongshan University MBA ( Jointly by School of Management at Zhongshan University and Lingnan (University) College, Sun Yat-sen University), remained in fourth and fifth place, respectively. These two institutes have strong appeal in their own geographic regions. It also tells us that the business schools with long histories have solid foundations to build on.

 

Ranked number six is Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, which advanced two positions from last rank. The Cheung Kong MBA started late, but has developed very fast with great branding capability and global faculty and teaching advantages. It ranked number eight in 2008 after their first time in the ranking. Although the student number is not big, the quality of the students is high.

 

Ranked number seven and number eight are the School of Management at Fudan University and School of Business, Renmin University of China. Ranked number nine is the School of Management, Zhejiang University, which raised fastest in this round of rankings from previous number 14. It benefits from improvement of career development, salary and graduate satisfaction. Number ten is the School of Management at Xiamen University with strong appeal at east south coastal area.

 

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Explanation of 2010 “China Best MBA Ranking” study

 

In 2010, <Manager> magazine continued using the matured MBA ranking criteria developed throughout 2004, 2006 and 2008. Based on the internationally accepted practice, we studied and evaluated the program thoroughly from MBA graduates, employers and business schools perspectives. The main factors include business school faculty capability, teaching management, career development services, MBA graduates’ satisfaction rates to schools and salary, employers’ appraisal of graduates overall capability and ethics. The study focused on the class of 2007.

 

We included 60 MBA programs in our evaluation this year, five more than that in 2008. We ranked the top 30 finally. <Manager> entrusted a third party to verify parts of the school data. The previous three rounds of ranking made most business schools accept the independence, publicity, equality and correctness of the ranking. Therefore, most invited institutes actively participated in the questionnaire, provided graduates name list and supported the investigation. For cooperative schools, <Manager> audited and verified the accuracy and completeness of their answers. For uncooperative schools, <Manager> used the third party to independently investigate their programs by anonymous calls, desk study, data collection from alumni and other methods.

 

<Manager> conducted complicated investigations regarding students through multiple channels. First, we requested the complete name list of MBA graduates from schools, randomly selected for investigation and emailed the questionnaire to the whole group. We also worked with HR departments of employers, published the questionnaires online and send emails to request feedback. The number of MBA graduates who responded to our questionnaires met the statistic requirements. Regarding the appraisal from employers, <Manager> sent questionnaires to more than 100,000 Presidents, CEOs, Vice-Presidents, Directors and other high level managers and staff of human resource departments.

 

In the future, <Manager> will continuously follow the international accepted practice, conduct investigations biannually and build China MBA ranking brand with the highest authority.