China Europe International Business School (CEIBS; ) is a

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located in

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. Established under an agreement between the

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and the

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in November 1994, CEIBS was the first business school in

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to offer a full-time

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, an

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and a wide range of Executive Education programmes. CEIBS follows the European model of business schools. Its MBA programme has consistently ranked amongst the best in the world.

History

The school's predecessor, the China-EC Management Institute (CEMI), was launched in

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in 1984. After CEIBS was formally established in 1994 in collaboration with its partners European Foundation for Management Development (

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) and

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, it later moved to Minhang in Shanghai. In 1994, CEIBS opened its main campus in Shanghai's Pudong district. In May 2009 CEIBS started an EMBA programme in

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, being the first Asian business school to start such a programme in Africa. CEIBS was also the first Asian business school, and one of the very few around the globe, to become

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in 2011. In 2009, CEIBS became the first Chinese business school to make the world's Top 10 MBA ranking compiled by the ''FT''. In November 2015, CEIBS announced that it had acquired the Lorange Institute of Business of Zurich for 16.5 million Swiss francs, with plans to train over 200 Chinese managers per month.

The CEIBS Diaries

In June 2022, an 11-part series of posts detailing the negative experience of international students at CEIBS was published on

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by an account claiming to be a group of CEIBS MBA alumni.

Campus

Established in 1994, the main campus of CEIBS in Shanghai's Pudong district was designed by

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and Ian Bader of

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and made CEIBS the first business school in mainland China with its own campus. In 2011, CEIBS began the 18-month construction of Phase 3 of the Shanghai campus which doubled its size to 7.5 million square meters. CEIBS opened its Beijing campus on April 24, 2010, within Beijing's Zhonguangcun Software Park alongside the research centres of IBM,

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, Neusoft and more than 200 other leading technology companies. It effectively doubled the school's total number of classroom seats. Designed by the Spanish architectural firm IDOM, the Beijing campus hosts CEIBS EMBA programme and executive education courses. Each year, the CEIBS Beijing campus graduates almost 300 EMBA students and nearly 3,000 executive education participants. The campus is also a central meeting point for CEIBS alumni as Beijing is home to CEIBS’ second-largest alumni chapter (after

Academics

80% of the non-Chinese students who graduate from China Europe International Business School establish residence and work in the Asia-Pacific region.

Programs

* MBA * Finance MBA (Part-time) * MBA/Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (Coordinated with

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) * MBA/Master of Public Health (Coordinated with

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) * MBA/Master of Management in Hospitality (Coordinated with

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) * Executive MBA (taught in Mandarin) * DBA (taught in Switzerland and in Mandarin) * Global Executive MBA Shanghai cohort (taught in English) * Global Executive MBA Zurich cohort (taught in English) * Executive Education * PhD in Management (Coordinated with Shanghai Jiaotong University)

Rankings

CEIBS MBA Programme: * #1 in Asia, #16 globally full-time MBA Programme (2022): ''

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'' * #3 in Asia, #2 in China, Global Best Business School (2022): ''

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'' * #1 in Asia amongst 2-year programmes outside the US, 2019: ''

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Magazine'' CEIBS Global EMBA Programme: * Top 20 Globally for 11 Consecutive Years (20102020), #2 worldwide and highest ranked stand-alone programme in 2020: ''

Administration

In February 2011, former

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professor

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was appointed as vice president and dean of the business school. However, Quelch abruptly announced his resignation in November 2012.

Notable people

Faculty and staff

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, board member *

Wu Jinglian Wu Jinglian (; born January 24, 1930) is one of the preeminent economists of the People's Republic of China (PRC), primarily specializing in economic policy as it applies to China's ongoing series of economic reforms. Renowned for his resolute ...

, Honorary Professor * Xu Xiaonian, Professor of Economics and FinanceChina's Most Powerful People 2009
- Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved on December 2, 2011.

Alumni

* Chen Hao, Governor of

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province *

Huang Nubo Huang Nubo (; born 1956) is a Chinese real estate developer, entrepreneur, poet, and mountaineer who founded and remains Chairman of Beijing Zhongkun Investment Group. According to Hurun Report, his net worth is US$2.3 billion as of 2014, ranki ...

, Chairman, Beijing Zhongkun Investment Group * Lan Yu, fashion designer * Liu Qiangdong, Founder and President, JD.com *

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, Nigerian mental health advocate *

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, Co-founder, Sun TV

References

External links

Official website
(English version)

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