Background

SEBA was authorized in 1997 to launch the MBA Program, comprising the two-year full-time MBA program and the three-year part-time MBA program. This program, since its inception, has had a good reputation in China,becoming the most prestigious MBA program in Southwest China and being ranked as the MBA program with the greatest social impact and the most attractive one to students in Southwest China and Chongqing.

Duration

MBA is a three-year duration program, with the period of study generally being 3-5 years, depending on the completion of credits and dissertation.

Learning Goals

SEBA's MBA Program has a clear goal to cultivate innovative, responsible, knowing-national-context, internationalized business leaders. Specifically, the completion of this goal includes the following five aspects:

Curricula

Professional Practice

Practice mode:

1. Case studies are widely used in course teaching and students are guided to complete the interactive part, class work and homework in combination with their own work practice; faculty will score the performance of each student regarding the effectiveness of linking theory with practice in class.

2. In a group discussion or workshop, students are required to fully combine their practical work, which will be closely related to the evaluation standard.With reference to the course content of topics such as management communication, management skills, leadership, teamwork, negotiation and critical thinking, faculty members are required to adopt interactive teaching methods. In the case of practice activities, faculty will evaluate the performance of each student by giving a score.

3. By offering such activities as business event simulations, business contests or team works, the MBA Program encourages students to simulate business events in class,which has greatly contributed to fully enhance students’ performance in management communication, management skills, leadership, teamwork, negotiation and critical thinking. A Review Committee composed of experts will evaluate these activities and give a score.

4. To highlight the role of the MBA Program in practice guidance, an independent MBA Case Center has been set up to provide unified guidance for case construction and take full responsibility for the compiling and coordination of MBA cases.Since its inception, the Case Center has achieved consistent outcomes.

The sound development of the Case Center has contributed to the teaching diversity and effectiveness of the MBA Program. Faculty members are required to submit the course syllabus and the course calendar before class.

The Programs Committee, according to the professional judgment of its members, will determine or suggest revisions to the proportion of practice content in class teaching and will organize discussions and revisions to the practice content on a periodic basis.

5. SEBA's MBA Program, by playing its advantages in the business world, has set up more than 30 internship practice bases for students. In the meantime, the program has invited more than 100 outside experts with extensive experience in practice to help students to broaden their horizons.

Academic Dissertation

(1) Research Topic Selection Requirements

The topic of the MBA dissertation shall be closely combined with China's new trends of economic reform and opening-up and various practical issues facing ent erprises in the course of moving towards the market and building large and medium-sized enterprises.

A MBA dissertation topic discussion meeting will be organized by the supervisor, where experts from the specific discipline and related disciplines (at least three persons, including the supervisor) will attend,and the student will be required to clarify the research scope, opinion and value, problems proposed to be solved, research scheme and research schedule of the topic and to conduct feasibility argumentation. Only after approval in the meeting the research work can proceed.

(2) Dissertation Form & Specifications

The specific form of the dissertation can be a special research, survey report, enterprise diagnosis report or business case study, etc. Students should provide a new insight into the topic.

Their research methods and research results should have certain practical value or have a guiding role or practical value in social development or economic development. Case writing, survey report and diagnosis analysis shall come from their own practice.

The time for working on a MBA dissertation shall be no less than a year (mainly comprising four stages: collecting and reading the literature; business survey; research proposal; dissertation writing), wherein, the effective time for the dissertation shall be no less than half a year,and the student is required to read no less than 20 Chinese/English references.

A MBA dissertation shall be no less than 20,000 words, wherein the abstract shall be no less than 500 words, written in Chinese. Refer to the CQU PhD/MSc Dissertation Writing Format Standard for the specific format.

Dissertation scores depend on the following three aspects:

1. The student’s ability to apply learnt theories in analyzing and solving problems.

2. The depth and breadth of knowledge grasped by the student and whether there are any new insights reflected in the dissertation.

3. The practical value of the dissertation (including economic and social benefits).

Among dissertation reviewers and in the Defense Committee, at least one senior professional expert from the economic administrative department or an enterprise shall be available.

For the specific dissertation review standard, please refer to the CQU MBA Dissertation Standard.

(3) Dissertation Requirements

The specific form of a MBA dissertation can be an academic paper, case writing, survey report or diagnosis analysis, etc. Students should provide a new insight into the topic,their research methods and research outcomes should have certain practical value or have a guiding role or practical value in social development or economic development; and their case writing,survey report and diagnosis analysis shall come from their own management practice.

The dissertation shall demonstrate that the author has grasped solid fundamental theories and expertise and possesses the capability to carry out scientific research or undertake a particular technical task independently.

The MBA dissertation shall be completed independently by the MBA student under the guidance of his/her supervisor.