The MBA Center of Nankai University was founded in July 1997. It is the institution that is specially established for administrating and carrying out the MBA education of Nankai University. The MBA Center, affiliated in the Business School of Nankai University, executes the MBA programs under the guidance of the Graduate School of Nankai University. Professor Weian Li, the dean of Business School of Nankai University, is the director of the MBA Center with four departments. Department of teaching, department of employment guiding, department of administration, and the department of EMBA program. And it also has its own academic committee and the committee experts.
The MBA Center is a high-efficiency, conscientious and innovational team. It constantly improves itself to suit for the MBA education pattern in China and absorb the advanced management ideas and educational experience, integrating resources, enhancing the brand values, continually innovating and improving the MBA education environment. All these efforts do much for the MBA center to keep its leadership in the MBA education in China.
The MBA program of Nankai University is one of the top three MBA Programs in the first accreditation held by the Ministry of Education in 2002. The Organic Committee of the World Managers listed the most influential MBA of China ranks, and the MBA program of Nankai University is the fifth with the survey of 1,000 professional managers in 2003.
The MBA Center of Nankai University constantly pays more attention to the innovation and team spirit in MBA teaching and managing. And the MBA center opens the courses of Managerial Ethic, Career Development and Management, Strategy Management, and etc. at the initial stage.
The MBA Center is the first to set up the two-advisors system. That means every student can have two advisors: one is the university academic advisor and the other is the practitioner advisor who is from the external of the university. This does important contribution to the study of Chinese MBA education. The MBA Center of Nankai University encourages the MBA students to carry out self-management and to cultivate the team spirit and innovative spirit. Nowadays, team spirit has been a remarkable feature of the MBA program of Nankai University.
The MBA Center of Nankai University will always regard to provide more valuable service for the MBA students as their duty and take the open teaching plan according to the characteristics of every MBA student. Provided with the number of the students who select the same curriculum more than ten courses, the curriculum can be given according to the requirements of the MBA students.
Nankai University constantly develops its programs and specialties. Many important programs and specialties have been set up, such as Organization and Strategy Management, Finance Management, Human Resource Development and Management, Marketing, Enterprise Creating Management, International Management, Project Management.
The number of students entering for the MBA examination of Nankai University constantly keeps ahead of the others in recent years. And it is more than 2,000 in 2003. There are over two thousand of MBA students studying in Nankai University now. Nankai University has been a very important base for bringing up the elite and talents of business administration.