Nankai University is a key institute which is among the first to set up business management discipline and launch Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) program in China. It has rich experience and international cooperation resources in terms of EMBA education and senior manager training. The program is established according to the [2002] No. 64 document formulated by the Office of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee. Since 2003, hundreds of management elites have not only acquired knowledge about advanced management modes and business experience, but also built their stable and strong business relationship after joining the Nankai University EMBA program. 
The world economics discipline of Nankai University has ranked the first place for two consecutive years in the key disciplines evaluation organized by the Ministry of Education. And it has excellent faculty in the training of doctoral and master students, especially those who are on-the-job.
The international trade discipline of Nankai University is a key national discipline, which holds a leading position in China and has an academic team consisted of young professors with core competitiveness.
 

I. Enrollment Objects
Board chairman and general manager of large enterprises; marketing director, production director and finance director of large enterprises; senior management staff at government economic supervision and management department or at financial institutions; and other senior management staff.
 

II. Program Goals
To meet the needs of global market development, the program aims to train students to become talented personnel who can master both the theories and practice of global management, understand the latest developments, international macroeconomic policies and micro-market rules in global market, have expertise in international finance and trade and capacity of transnational management and expand global market. Graduates with an EMBA degree are able to become senior management personnel with global strategic thinking, comprehensive decision-making skills and skilled application of global market management knowledge, and to show stronger strategic leadership in business management.
 

III. Admission Qualifications

• Bachelor degree within the National Education System;

• More than 8 years of working experience, including more than 4 years of management experience;

• Combination of written examination and interview, and the latter being the major part. The written examination is designed to examine the candidates’ actual management experience level.
   

IV. Ways of Taking Class

• Duration of the program is 2 years, and can be extended to 2.5 years in special circumstances;

• Most courses are taken in Nankai University;

• Each course is scheduled for 4 days at the weekend in every month;

• Course examination takes the form of open-book examination or paper;

• The major part of class is the case study lectured by renowned professors, and ways of teaching include group discussion, teacher-student interaction, experience investigation, simulated exercise, etc.;

• After-class activities include frequently organizing students to visit famous enterprises or to visit foreign countries;

• Courses taught by foreign professors are equipped with interpreters.

V. Degree Certificate
Student needs to complete all courses that are set for this program, pass all the examinations and the degree thesis defense before being issued with the degree certificate of Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA), which is printed by the Office of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee and signed by Nankai University.

VI. International Cooperation
The Center boasts long-term cooperation and exchange opportunities with some well-known foreign universities, such as: Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment), Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Hong Kong, McMaster University, and York University, etc.