The Business School Overview

The Business School of Jilin University has inherited a part of the university’s rich heritage. Today, the Business School has 8 departments and 3 research centers. The school offers 5 doctoral degree programs, 2 post-doctoral research stations and 5 Master’s degree programs.  In addition, the school offers 6 professional degree programs, namely:  Master of Business Administration, Executive Masters of Business Administration, Master of Finance, Master of Project Management, Master of Professional Accounting (MPAcc), and Master of Applied Statistics.

The school has some outstanding areas. Its Quantitative Economics has been granted the title of National Key Discipline and recognized by the Ministry of Education as the only key research base in its field. Its Enterprise Management is the Key Discipline of Jilin Province.

MBA（International） Overview

Over its 13-year history, the MBA program has developed a highly experienced team.  The MBA program has become one of the most famous for brand image among Chinese business schools. In 2010, Managers, the Chinese economics-and-management journal with the largest circulation in its field, ranked JIlin University’s MBA program 18^th out of 190 candidates in its annual evaluation of the better MBA programs in China. In the listing of the top 30 schools, Jilin Universtity’s Business School was the only one in China’s North-East to qualify.

Faculty

The school’s team of multi-disciplinary faculty offers a balanced combination of backgrounds from both arts and sciences. The faculty has 122 full-time members, including 40 full professors, as well as 41 associate professors.  From the past decade alone, the faculty’s academic publications both at home and abroad number over 1,000, in addition to 90 other publications including monographs, textbooks and translated works. The faculty has undertaken more than 40 important research projects with funding from the National Natural- Science Foundation, from the National Social-Science Foundation, the State High-Technology Development Plan (Project 863), or from the Humanities-and-Social-Science Foundation of the Ministry of Education.

International Profile

The school pays particular attention to international exchanges.  The school has dispatched nearly 40 staff members for study, research or teaching, with destinations including Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.  The school has established formal co-operative exchange relationships with Seoul’s National University of Korea, the University of Illinois, Australia’s University of Newcastle and the University of Otago, New Zealand.  The school has also invited some international celebrities as honorary professors or guest lecturers, such as Joseph Stiglitz, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and former Senior Vice President, as well as Chief Economist, of the World Bank; Lawrence J. Lau, renowned Chinese economist and former Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong; and, Naoshi Morikawa, former Chief Specialist of the Tokyo Grain Exchange.

Application Process

1.Application Conditions

1.1 The applicant should be non-Chinese nationality citizen.

1.2 The applicant should be physically and mentally healthy, good personal conduct, abide by the laws of the Chinese government and the regulations of the school, and respect Chinese social customs and traditions.

1.3 The applicant should have several years of full-time job experience after graduating from university (more than two years)

2. Application Materials