来源于：Shanghai Daily 2007-9-11记 者：Rachel Yan
AFTER 16 years of progress, the Master of Business Administration education in China now welcomes something new.
The National MBA Education Supervisory Committee, China's top government-backed MBA education regulator, announced earlier this year that the minimum work experience requirements for spring semester MBA program applicants has been cut from the previous five years to three years starting this year.
That means working applicants no longer need to wait so long before applying, simply gaining work experience after graduating if they want to attend a domestic MBA program.
Meanwhile, the national MBA admission test will also see academic requirements for mathematics significantly reduced from next year.
The adjusted paper will only test students on maths problems of high school level, as opposed to that of university-level higher mathematics.
Students who signed up for a MBA program run by public domestic universities should pass a unified national MBA admission exam, which is held either in October for the Spring semester admission or in January for the fall batch.
Another option is MBA programs run by independent institutions such as ChinaEuropeInternationalBusinessSchool or ones jointly run by a domestic university or their foreign counterparts, which admit students by their Graduate Management Admission Test.
The lift on the five-year work experience threshold, as well as the lower academic requirements, have all given an impetus to people who are hoping that MBA degree might further develop their careers.
FudanUniversity, which usually ranks top among the local public universities with its MBA program applicant numbers, said that its applicant numbers are 30 percent up on last year's for the year spring semester program.
Xie Hao, assistant director of Fudan's MBA program, referred to the policy adjustment as a major reason for the public universities' MBA applicants surge.
"The lower work experience requirement opens up opportunities for a large number of professionals who have work experience of three to five years and it has motivated them to apply," Xie explained.
Besides, the country's growing number of university graduates has also given rise to larger demand for professional degrees, such as MBA, Master of Public Administration and Master of Professional Accounting.
That also pushed up the applicants’ number, Xie added.
Statistics suggested that MBA admission test applicants in January had climbed from the 35,824 people in 2004 to the 40,784 people this year.
Owing to the expanding demand, the Ministry of Education also gave a green light to a new batch of 31 domestic universities to run MBA programs this June.
That means altogether 127 universities and institutes are allowed to award MBA degree since the first batch of nine universities was announced in 1991.
EastChinaNormalUniversity is the new participant in Shanghai's 10 public university MBA program providers, which kicked off enrollment of its first intake in July.
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