MBA Program of ACEM SJTU Won No. 2 MBA Program of China Business School, and CLGO Program Won Annual Distinctive MBA Program Award of China Business School

2021 China Business School Development Forum and Education Festival were held in Beijing on December 10, 2021. Deans of well-known Chinese business schools were invited to give keynote speeches and discuss the future development trend of business education with a focus on the new business talent training mode to promote the growth strength of business schools.

Dean Chen Fangruo of Antai College of Economics and Management (ACEM), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) was invited to deliver a speech. Dean Chen introduced ACEM's journey of reform and opening up from three aspects: the latest ACEM developments, industry research, and the road ahead. In his speech, he highlighted the characteristics of ecological construction and diversified development of ACEM in its future development direction and particularly noted the technology transfer major of Future Technology Finance Institute, which is also the first in China to have a master's degree program in technology transfer. The Future Technology Finance Institute will be operated and managed by ACEM, representing the further deepening of its school-running concept of integration of industry, academics and research.

Several awards were presented to encourage and recognize outstanding business programs. With its excellent teaching quality, unique teaching concept and fruitful teaching achievements, the MBA program of ACEM SJTU ranked second in the Top 100 MBA Program of China Business School 2021!

The MBA program of ACEM SJTU started in 1994. Over the past 20 years, it has made great efforts in standardization, quality, brand and characteristics, and has achieved great brand effect. According to the latest Global MBA Ranking 2021 released by Financial Times (FT), ACEM has become the only local business school in mainland China to rank among the world's top 100 for eight consecutive years, with Value For Money ranking first in local business schools in mainland China and Overall Satisfaction ranking second in the Asia-Pacific region. ACEM MBA also ranks No. 1 and No. 15 in FT's Top MBA for Women and Global MBA Ranking for Finance, respectively. In addition, ACEM's MBA program is the only local business school in mainland China listed in QS Global MBA Rankings: Top 100 MBA Programs for two consecutive years (2020-2021).

In the list of “Double First-Class” Universities and Disciplines announced by Chinese Ministry of Education, the "Business and Management" discipline of SJTU is the only economic and management discipline selected in Shanghai. In the fourth round of national discipline evaluation and the first round of professional-degree evaluation, both the first-class discipline of Business Administration and the MBA program of SJTU are ranked A+. In the Asia-Pacific Business School Rankings released by Financial Times, ACEM SJTU has been No. 1 for the second year in a row. In 2008 and 2011, ACEM SJTU was accredited by three authoritative international top management education systems, namely AMBA, EQUIS and AACSB respectively, thus becoming the first triple-accredited business school in mainland China.

Now ACEM embarks on its new-century journey and is carrying out a reform focusing on industry research with the strategy of "two types of scholarship, horizontal (academic) and vertical (industry), reinforcing each other and connecting theory with practice", which attracts the attention of business schools around the world.

The China Leaders for Global Operations (CLGO) program jointly developed by SJTU and MIT won the "Most Distinctive MBA Program Award of China Business School 2021".

CLGO (China Leaders for Global Operations) program is the first full-time, interdisciplinary MBA program in China. The program is operated by Antai College of Economics and Management, School of Mechanical Engineering and School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, SJTU, and is developed by SJTU in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The program adopts the model of MIT’s prestigious Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program, while combining with Chinese business characteristics and management practices. It has gained support from and built partnerships with famous multinational companies and local companies. CLGO is designed to cultivate elites in all-around modern business management with outstanding leadership proficient in combining theory and practice in engineering and management based on superior and distinctive disciplines in engineering and management at SJTU.

As to this ranking, MBAChina and Manager have adhered to the principles of justice, fairness and openness and strived to select the best institutions recognized by all sectors of the community through data collection, institution application, questionnaire survey and other forms from ten dimensions such as faculty, curricula, student evaluation, brand influence, etc.