Recently, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), one of the world's leading academic ranking companies, has released its most recent QS Global EMBA rankings.The Shanghai University of Finance and Economics EMBA program ranked 94th in the world and 18th in the Asia-pacific region.
Background information for the rankings
The QS rankings measure EMBA programs with five core indicators: employer reputation, thought leadership, management experience, employment outcomes, and diversity. These criteria examine whether EMBA programs are globally recognized by employers and academia, measure the level of students’ management experience, and take into account salary increases and the promotions of graduates. It also evaluated the diversity of EMBA programs in terms of gender and internationalization.
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics EMBA program status
The Shanghai University of Finance and Economics was founded in 1917 and is one of the premier institutions for business studies. The school is directly run by the Ministry of Education, the national “Double First-class” construction of universities. During the hundred-year university and hundred-year business studies program, from generation to generation the alumni keep in mind the school motto of “Virtue and erudition, economy and time”, to enable business practice and spread business civilization. They follow the motto to promote the progress of China's modern business structure, which has delivered remarkable contributions.
In 2002, the school was approved as one of the first EMBA institutions in China, and this year it marks its 20th anniversary. After decades of profound exploration and connotative development, the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics EMBA program adheres to the mission of the time to building virtues. It adopts a reform, inheritance, and innovation to unite knowledge and practice. Opening up a higher business education along with the characteristics of Socialist China the program runs at a steady and far-reaching pace. The MBA program has presently achieved AMBA and CAMEA certification courses, and the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Business School is accredited by the AACSB and EQUIS.
The earnest one continuously secures the first position in the competition. At present, the EMBA program at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics relies on the strong academic potencies of the university and allows the business school as a platform to integrate the proper education at home and abroad. It produces outstanding alumni to establish the improved industrial chain as a strategic breakthrough to the barriers in and within the industry and the boundaries between industries. In addition, it endows the characteristics of the times to focus on solving the three critical challenges of EMBA students: Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Development, and Entrepreneur Growth. Thus, the “New Ecology” in business education is constructed it’s learning the goal of “cultivating business leaders with profound financial literacy” is being progressively materialized.
A detailed explanation of the EMBA program
The arrival of the digital economy has injected new blood into the world's economic development and innovation and development has converted into an eternal proposition, which also begets contemporary challenges to higher education. The EMBA is charged with the assignment of learning a high-level economic and social governance process. It should be geared up to the world's scientific and technological frontiers conquering the key battlefields of the national economy, and the major needs of the nation. It should also be speeded up to the transformation of the global market and to keep abreast of the changes of the times. It instructs high-level talents for corporate management with comprehensive demands to adopt the concurrent development and economic trends.
With the academic superiority, quality education resources, and outstanding alumni network, the EMBA program offers six modules including “Leading the future”, “Taking responsibility”, “Innovative development”, “Insight into China”, “Global vision”, and “Management Literacy” to boost business leaders of the modern era climb the business peak, take on social responsibility, inherit the entrepreneurship manner through the consolidation of financial literacy (“Burson Lecture | Business practice frontier module”, “The way to develop value”, “Management economics”, “Financial analysis and investment decision-making”, “International financial system and China's financial markets)”. Other courses enable students to make better financial decisions in enterprise management and social structure to lead the time for value.
Student activities
The program organizes constant cutting-edge seminars and outdoor activities to improve students’ financial literacy, leadership, management, and life skills In addition to class activities, students equally participate in Business School Gobi Challenge and other skill and knowledge events, to learn teamwork. These activities convey breakthroughs in the sweat and struggle situation to accept and co-exist with adversity for their own growth.
The EMBA Program of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics achieved the Shackleton Award, the Excellence Award, and the Legacy Award in 2021 at the 16th Xuanzang Road Business School Gobi Challenge.
Some Excellent Alumni
Liu Jia, the CEO of Rubik's Cube Life Services Group and the 2007 alumnus of the EMBA Program of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics: more than 400 stores worth above $1 billion, the undisputed industry unicorn
Xiong Xiong, the Chairman of Island Sea Investment Group and the 2012 alumnus of the EMBA Program of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics: dreams and future from “Betel nut farmer” to chairman of listed company
Chairman of Hua Hui Engineering Design Group, the 2002 alumnus of the EMBA of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Yuan Jianhua: as long as it’s sunny in the blue sky, he was unafraid to be the spark
Li Dongmin, the Chairman of Jiasheng Group and an alumnus of the 2004 EMBA said: “A solitary flower is not a spring while spring nothing but displays her with a hundred flowers blooming.”
He Xuan, the chairman of Youshan Fund, a board member of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, the alumnus of 2016 EMBA: A gentleman carries out not constraint himself to a certain form of equipment, heading to the world-class asset management institutions.
Liu Yanfeng, the senior vice-president of Ejiao in Dong'E and the 2006 alumnus of the EMBA of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics: healthy lifestyle in revitalized traditions, long-established brands go through a vigorous digital transformation and practices of corporate-social value with innovation
Huang Weichao, the General Manager of Asia-pacific Electromechanical Group, the 2015 EMBA alumnus: run, become the leader of China's automotive brake system industry!
Cao Chaofan, the CEO of Jinke International Holding Group, the 2012 EMBA alumnus: to create a series of Star Enterprises by the alumni of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics is my ultimate goal
Zhang Jisheng, Vice-president of Beijing Guoshuang Technology Co., Ltd. and the 2015 EMBA alumnus: from technology-driven to NASDAQ, forge ahead opposing wind and rain
2008 EMBA alumnus Liu Jianxiong: the “Deer mushroom” born in the fire, the entrepreneur who turned the wind
EMBA 2017 alumnus Sun Quan said: an aviation operator who does not know five languages, cannot be the youngest Branch manager at China Life
Zhao Wei, Deputy Secretary-general of the Shanghai Physicians Volunteer Union and a 2005 alumnus of the EMBA of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, participated in the 10,000 meters high-altitude emergency rescue project and he also participated in a popular proposal of the two sessions!
Zhang Ruizhen, a lawyer in Shanghai law firm Fajitte and a 2019 senior EMBA alumnus of the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics: a mother of three children, a member of Team A, a scholarship holder, a Legally Blonde from the EMBA program of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
