Features of MBA Education

1. Based on the strong teaching and research faculty of RBS
As one of main bases of MBA education in China, RBS has strong teaching and research strength, a library with enormous books and complete specialized materials, advanced computer lab, multimedia network classrooms, a CAD lab, compact disc information searching center, and a video room.

2. Unique premium MBA curriculum
　　 The MBA education at RBS is the embodiment of the research on management theory and corporate practice over half a century. It has drawn the quintessence from the contemporary European and American MBA education, which helped form an extractive curriculum with its own characteristics. Our MBA program is featured by “paying equal attention to both advanced topics and systematic courses, distinguished professors coupled with entrepreneurs, advanced western theory integrated with domestic experience, simulated training with interactive case discussion”. RBS faculty have collectively compiled 15 case study books, and published scores of MBA premium teaching materials in English through the China Machinery Press to meet requirements of MBA case study education. It has also intensified the assessment for teachers and has promptly informed them of feedback from students.

3. Advanced case study education focusing on the integration between theory and practice
　　 In view of MBA's orientation of practice, we focus on case study in education, intensifying students' awareness of competition, risks, and decision-making and on-site management capabilities, and organizing them to visit and investigate into enterprises to keep them up to date with economic development in the world, and the reform and opening up of China.

4. Flexible BB On-Line Learning System
　　 As the pioneer in developing on-line education management system in China, RBS has an internationally advanced Blackboard Learning System (BB). With its powerful functions such as on-line course registration, scoring, classroom discussion, learning material distribution, question answering by teachers, teaching affairs management, the BB system has provided a powerful on-line platform for interactions between teachers and students, and between students; and has substantially enhanced the teaching management efficiency.

5. The colorful secondary classroom
RBS has invited senior visiting scholars, the American Fulbright and other foreign teachers to participate in the MBA classroom teaching, and has invited managers of foreign transnational corporations in China and domestic enterprise managers and scholars to give lectures.

6. International exchange activities
　　 RBS regularly send outstanding MBA students on exchange visits to schools in the U.S. A. and Europe. Since 2000, we have signed graduate exchange and study agreements with The University of Texas, San Antonio (the U.S.), the School of Business (EUROMED MARSEILLE Ecole De Management, France), and the School of Business (Aarhus School of Business, Danmark), and have regularly sent MBA students on exchange visits to the above-mentioned schools.

MBA Training Method

Renmin University of China recruits MBA students in each autumn and spring based on standards of RUC (in principle, we only recruit qualified applicants who take the RUC as their first choice). We recruit 120 students in spring and 350 in autumn (including teaching branches in other cities).

Enrollment in Autumn

　 Full-time MBA:
　 Full-time study, the duration of study is two years
　 Part-time MBA:
　 Courses offered in the evening or on weekend, the duration of study is two years

　 MBA Program with Face-to-face Coaching:
　 MBA program with face-to-face coaching is offered each month, the duration of study is two years (restricted to teaching branches in other cities)
　 Basic requirements for applicants:
　 1. High political and professional caliber, good health
　 2. Have graduated from college for over three years (as of the registration date) or have graduated from graduate schools (as of the registration date).
　 3. Those who have graduated from junior colleges for over five years (as of the registration date), and have management experience in industrial or commercial enterprises or economic and management departments; applicants with the equivalent academic degree should pass the CET-4 test for English; in the second round test, the applicants should submit a paper in economics or management of over 10,000 Chinese characters equivalent to the academic level of a bachelor, or three articles published in newspapers or magazines.
　 4. Applicants should be younger than 40 years old (as of the registration date). Older applicants are acceptable if they are assigned to training by their organizations.

　 Application Procedure:
　 October each year——Application.
　 January the following year——MBA National Examination.
　 March the following year——Applicants whose examination results are above the base entrance score for the second round test of our school are interviewed by the specialty team and English team organized by our school.
　 April-May the following year——Those who have passed the interviews are informed to submit agreements and pay tuition.
　 June the following year——Send the Notice of Admission to those who have passed the second round test.
　 September the following year——Enrollment.

Enrollment in Spring

　 Part-time students pursuing MBA degrees attend classes in their spare time for two years
　 Subjects of enrollment:
　 1. College graduates of national education system (normally with bachelor's degrees) and those who have been working for over five years and are serving at enterprises and economic management departments. Our focus is to recruit middle and top management of medium and large-sized SOEs.
　 2. Those who have been recommended by the HR departments of their organizations.

　 Application Procedure:
　 June or July each year——Application.
　 October the same year——National written examination for “Part-time MBA entrance examination for management personnel of enterprises”.
　 December the same year——Applicants whose examination results are above the base entrance score for the second round test of our school take the second round test. (the exact time will be notified later)
　 February the following year——Those who have passed the interviews are informed to submit agreements and pay for the tuition; Our school sends the Notice of Admission to those who have passed the second round test.
　 March or April the following year——Enrollment.

On-line enrollment

On-line enrollment includes on-line application, payment for the application, on-line enrollment, etc. All our postgraduate admission information is on the website. Applicants can log onto our graduate school website to look for related notices at any time. Applicants download from the graduate school website the Admission Card for Entrance Examination, The Report Card for the First Round Test, A Notice of the Second Round Test, agreement, etc.

Website: http://pgs.ruc.edu.cn/