EMBA Expansion in Shanghai
October 24th, 2004The business school where I teach has announced plans to expand its EMBA program to Shanghai.
The school has been offering a similar program in Beijing in cooperation with a Chinese institution named UIBE since January 2003. Last May many of the first graduates of that Beijing program came to College Park for commencement.
The Baltimore Sun has a good story on the growth of MBA programs in China here (registration required).
The Smith School’s Shanghai expansion plan was announced in Shanghai last week. Our dean, Howard Frank, was there as part of a delegation led by Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich.
The Sun article mentions Smith’s Shanghai plan, as do other stories on the visit of the Maryland delegation such as this one from the Washington Business Journal online. That publication ran an earlier, stand-alone story about Smith’s plans here.
Most of the reports from China that I have seen about the Governor’s visit also mention the Smith School’s expansion plan.
A story in English from the official Xinhua news agency appears here.
The Chinese language reports I’ve seen so far generally follow this model, briefly mentioning the EMBA expansion, though not providing a timetable or other details. Samples Chinese stories include this one from Xinhua, this one from China News Net and this one from the People’s Daily Online.
The headline over a very brief story in the popular local Shanghai paper Xin Min Wan Bao reads, “Maryland Governor Comes to Shanghai to Promote EMBA.” Unlike the others, this story reports Nov. 2005 as the intended launch date. This will be subject of course to regulatory approvals in China.
Surprisingly, my search in Chinese for articles about “Maryland Governor” produced many more hits concerning some remark his wife made here in the U.S. about wanting to shoot Britney Spears! An English report on that is here.