FDSM's Four Major Programs Rank Among FT's Global Top 40

SHANGHAI,Oct. 30,2020 -- On Oct 26,2020,the Financial Times (FT) released its annual Executive MBA Ranking. Four programs fromSchool of ManagementofFudan University (FDSM) were nominated among the top 40 in the world,steadily improving upon their ranking over the years.

FDSM's Four Major EMBA Programs Rank Among FT's Global Top 40

This year,the four programsthat joined the FT's global ranking include the Fudan University-Washington University EMBA Program,Fudan University EMBA Program,Fudan University-BI Norwegian Business School MBA Program and Fudan University-Hong Kong University IMBA Program. Each of these programs not only achieved outstanding overall positionsin the FT's global rankingsbut also performed exceptionally well across a variety of metrics. The Fudan-WashU EMBA Program ranks 16thin the world while claiming the top spot of academic research in Asia. The Fudan EMBA Program ranks 21stoverall and 1stamong all Chinese language programsfor outstandingstudents' work experience and percentage of international faculty members.The Fudan-BI MBA Program places 27thin the global rankings and 2ndin the world for the salary growth rate of graduates. Furthermore,the Fudan-HKU IMBA Program ranks 37thin the world and 4thfor global part-time MBA programs.

Rooted in China,a country known for progressive improvement,FDSM continues to make its way to the center of the global stage. The steady rise in rankings of these four programs reflects FDSM's commitment to enhancing its comprehensive competence to new levels. FDSM is the first business school inChinese Mainlandto participate in this global ranking system. When compared with all other Chinese universities,FDSM has the largest number of nominated projects joining the ranking and alumni participated in the ranking survey. Moreover,its overall score continues to improve steadily. These achievements are the results of the tremendous efforts taken by FDSM to facilitate and develop faculty team building,talent training,internationalization as well as the other aspects of its all-round,comprehensive growth.

FDSM has also achieved promising results in the authoritative global rankings for scientific research. For example,in 2020,the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) released its Top 100 Worldwide Business School Research Rankings,where FDSM was ranked 96thin the world,securing its spot within the top 100 for five consecutive years. In 2019,FDSM was published in 18 journals indexed by UTD as leading business journals,ranking 1stin Chinese Mainland for the number of papers approved for publication. FDSM has been advocating and encouraging students and faculty members to conduct their research about China. As a result,more and more high-quality research drawn from Chinese data and cases have been published in international journals. Research papers on China-related topics have accounted for nearly 50% of all papers published in these journals in the past five years.

The affirmation and support of the authoritative global rankings prove that FDSM has established a positive figure of Chinese higher institution globally and has been recognized as an institution offering high caliber education that meets international standards.