The Financial Times announced its 2013 global rankings of MBA programs yesterday. The Fudan MBA Program of our School enters the Top 100 of FT’s rankings for the first time and ranks the 89^th place. This honor is a significant recognition of the high quality of the MBA Program of our School.　

The FT’s annual list of Top 100 MBA programs worldwide is recognized as one of the most authoritative rankings of business management education in the world. According to its ranking report, the Fudan MBA Program performs outstandingly in terms of graduates’ salary increase rate and employment rate three months after graduation. The Program is also rated among the top in terms of the other performance indicators. In particular, the Program tops the business schools in Asia for its ranking among Top 10 in Asia in terms of many indicators such as international faculty, international exchange opportunities, and return on investment rate for students.　

“Cultivating business elites” is one of the goals that the Fudan MBA Program has been striving to realize by developing its unique “Join” spirit. Currently, a series of branding activities have been formed on the foundation of this core spirit, such as the Join Forum, Join Business Challenge Contest, and Join Orientation. In 1999, with the assistance from the MIT Sloan School of Management, our School became the first of its kind in China to introduce orientation activities for its freshmen.

Top-notch teaching quality is the highest priority for business education. In the Fudan MBA Program, over 74% of its faculty members are professors/associate professors and over 86% have prior experiences of studying abroad. In addition, there are also 87 part-time professors in our School each of whom has an abundance of experiences in both academic research and management practice.

The world-leading partnership model of the Program is one of the characteristics and advantages it takes pride in. Our School has always striving to learn from and keep up with the MIT Sloan School of Management, one of its partners and the best business schools in the world, in terms of education concept and teaching contents.

The Fudan MBA Program has also been dedicated to the internationalization of its students. It sends over 100 students each semesters for international exchanges to more than 50 reputed business schools around the world, including London Business School in the UK, IE Business School in Spain, and UCLA in the US. In addition, the Program also provides opportunities for its students to participate in all kinds of top-level international business competitions in order to enhance their professionalism and international competitiveness. Last but not least, the Program has also developed partnership projects with internationally known companies, allowing its students to help these companies in solving their practical problems and obtain prospective opportunities of career development.

Our School always believes that, in this ever-changing business world, one must always keep on learning new knowledge and improving his or her problem solving capability by putting knowledge into practice. The Fudan MBA Program is now proactively promoting its “Lifelong Learning Program” in which, through on-line channels such as Fudan Business Knowledge Online and electronic MBA periodicals, the graduates and students of the Program can be brought together for interactive learning and mobile learning.

With its world-leading education concept, partnership model, and lifelong learning and career development services for its students, the Fudan MBA Program is always a frontrunner among the MBA programs in China. Its ranking among the FT’s global list of Top 100 MBA programs is a further confirmation of its excellence. In the future, the Fudan MBA Program will continue to provide a wider and more solid learning platform for business elites to help them reach higher peaks in career development.

Jan. 28, 2013