The seventh experience exchange meeting for MBA school Union in Beijing was held as scheduled on the day of 5th Nov,2014. The deans, principals, and directors in charge from totally 24 MBA business schools attended the meeting as honored guests. The associate dean, weijun, who is mainly responsible for MBA education in SEM, was interviewed by medias after the meeting.
The difference in MBA education for domestics and overseas
Prof. Jun Wei: A big difference is that who is dominant in teaching activity. The MBA students in foreign business schools played the leading role and finished many extracurricular works independently, such as panel discussion, investigation, and preview before class. However, the requirement for students in China’s business school are not very high for the reason that most students are still working and have not much time to finish the task assigned by teacher. Therefore, the teacher become dominant in teaching and the MBA students only played supporting roles. See from that, the different teaching concepts are reflected.
The advantages of USTB MBA Program in the globe
Prof. Jun Wei: Our business school have been cooperating with America to develop EMBA program, which brings us a lot of international source and excellent elites to make lectures for MBA students. At the same time, we also organize students to have a study tour abroad to broaden their views. "Please come and going out" has been normalization for our MBA education.
Coexistence of internationalization and localization
Prof. Jun Wei: In my opinions, the best solution should be coexistence of Internationalization and localization. The international teacher give lessons about internationalization and Chinese teacher instruct local things, with half international professors and half local experts making the MBA education more attractive.
Local cases
Prof. Jun Wei: People always saying” the problems also imply opportunities”. It is because of our few cases that motivate our MBA students to survey and write Chinese enterprise cases by themselves, which is really a very good exercise. Additionally, writing high-level cases as the graduation thesis is also allowed and encouraged for students.
The challenges toward internationalization
Prof. Wei: The first step toward internationalization is to reach related international education standards. The USTB MBA education has passed the accreditation of AMBA in globe which means that our MBA program has reached international standard. Only reached international standard can we talk about international education. Secondly, much extra fees would increase the cost of international education, which is also a barrier for business school toward internationalization. Finally, an international teaching team has to be built. And most business schools in China didn’t realize it yet. Actually, the teaching level is decided by the quality of teaching team which is fundamental to Internationalization.
