Often considered the 2nd largest economy in 2011, China’s ascent will likely feed additional apprehensions . Nevertheless for company executives and aspiring vibrant entrepreneurs, it is becoming imperative to be familiar with China to deal with the increasing business opportunities in the Far East.
One usual way for this purpose is to study and build social networks at the leading Chinese universities or colleges. Latest obtainable numbers indicate that about 85, 000 foreign students study in China in 2002. Nearly 500 Chinese universities, typically in Shanghai and Bejing, admit foreign students.
If you'd like to do a post-graduate MBA program while working in China, there are a number schools out there.
The University of Maryland`s Smith School of Business offers a tailor-made degree, and accreditation programs at learning locations within Beijing and Shanghai. Smith`s very first executive MBA program class started in Jan 2003.
Along with the prestigious Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, the University of British Columbia is likewise offering an international MBA in China. Besides keeping the same curriculum as its Canadian MBA, professors with the University of British Columbia teach each of the courses.
Britain`s Nottingham University could be the first foreign university to establish a bricks-and-mortar campus in Ningbo. Nottingham Ningbo`s degree can be compared with its degree through the British campus. Most curriculums are held in English.
The university of Nanchang offers an MBA for foreign students. Classes tend to be taught by English teachers working in China. The business curriculum is combined with Chinese language classes.
The Chinese government is usually actively advertising more educative tie-ups in China to cultivate university graduates who will be much better geared for international corporations doing work in China and spearhead financial growth. At the moment, there are generally about 800 such jointly supervised educational programs in China.
Studying in China poses its own challenges. Not only does one need to obtain a modicum of Chinese literacy and ability to speak, one also needs to get used to the Chinese frame of mind. China is vast and it is difficult to generalize. I believe, and many friends have only mildly objected, that the following Chinese saying is accurate: One Japanese, a pig; two Japanese, a dragon. One Chinese, a dragon; two Chinese a pig. Maybe this lack of cooperation or willingness to teamwork is the result of the one child policy, Maybe Chinese have for the first time an opportunity to express themselves independent of Communist doctrines and do some with abandon.
Also, it is presumptuous to extrapolate from the experiences made in Beijing, Shanghai or Hongkong to the rest of China. Shopping in these cities is comparable to a trip to Paris, London, New York, Tokyo. However, 90 % of the Chinese population is far behind in terms of prosperity, education, infrastructure. One might sign deals in flashy glass palaces in these famous three cities, but the manufacture, management, shipping, and quality control will be done by farmers who have been trained in a day-long course. These people work hard, very hard, but mostly they lack the understanding, what quality in the eye of a Westerner actually means. A bicycle, even if it rides comfortably but starts corroding after only 6 months, is not acceptable in Western markets. A Chinese will put up with such a product and might muse, about the strange views of Westerners.
With many future current top managers and professionals in China enrolling in a large number of post-graduate MBA programs it is advantageous for foreigners to make contact with the motivated elite for their own job advancement.
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My site as an English teacher in China chronicles more of my experience teaching MBA students and living in China.
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