BI Norwegian Business School is ranked as Norway’s #1 business school and one of the best in Europe. With more than 20.000 students, 1000 employees and 300.000 alumni, it is also one of the largest and most influential business schools in Europe. BI is considered the main provider of business education in Norway, offering a diverse and comprehensive portfolio of bachelor’s, master’s, PhD and executive study programs and courses. Our different partnerships and collaborations with leading Norwegian and international companies, organizations and institutions further enhance the quality of our study programs. Towards 2030, BI aims to deliver knowledge that truly makes a difference through world-class research and outstanding learning experiences, giving businesses the knowledge to succeed and people the opportunity to build meaningful careers.

At Bryant University, our students discover a relentless drive to excel. They compete not only with each other but within themselves — building resilience, refining their talents, and accelerating their own success. Their ambition goes beyond personal achievement. This unstoppable Bulldog spirit drives them to lead with purpose, paving the way for others to follow in their footsteps. Bryant’s commitment to hands-on learning channels the passions of our students while also strengthening their abilities. Through real-world challenges, interdisciplinary learning, and the rigorous testing of ideas, Bryant students gain confidence by proving their potential. Our immersive, dynamic environment sharpens their problem-solving skills from every angle, equipping them with the insights and adaptability needed to navigate and excel in a complex world. Our legacy is measured by the leaders our students become. From the moment they walk through Bryant’s iconic archway, they join a community dedicated to nurturing their growth and determination — adding to our 160-year story of achievement. With a foundation built on integrity and a drive to shape tomorrow’s trailblazers, we celebrate both our history and the futures our students create. As polished professionals, they step forward to set new standards, drive change, and inspire others. We don’t just prepare students for the world ahead. We prepare them to lead it.

Founded in 1956, the Capital University of Economics and Business (CUEB) today is a leading university administered by Beijing Municipality. CUEB took its current form in 1995 when the Beijing College of Economics and the Beijing Institute of Finance & Trade merged into one. Over the past 68 years, CUEB has always upheld its motto to “advocate morality, value competence, strategize national development, and serve the people”, following the path of quality development with CUEB characteristics and specialties. Therefore, CUEB has grown into a Beijing Municipal high-level research university with program advantages in the subject areas of economics, management, law, literature, and science and engineering, of which economics and management are the core disciplines. The main campus of CUEB, covering an area of 293,245 square meters, is in Huaxiang, Fengtai District, and concentrates on full-time undergraduate and graduate education, while the Hongmiao Campus in Chaoyang District, covering an area of 58,378 square meters, focuses on international and integrated vocational education. The school Party committee has established 25 secondary Party organizations, including 17 secondary Party committees, 5 Party general branches, and 3 directly affiliated Party branches. There are 237 Party branches in CUEB, including 100 Party branches for in-service staff, 103 Party branches for students, and 34 Party branches for retired staff. Besides, there are 5,108 Party members in total, including 1,332 in-service staff, 3,039 students, and 760 retired staff. CUEB sets up 20 faculties, including School of Urban Economics and Public Administration, College of Business Administration, School of Economics, School of Accounting, School of Labor Economics, School of Culture and Communication, School of Management and Engineering, School of Public Finance and Taxation, School of Law, School of Finance, School of Statistics, School of Foreign Studies, Overseas Chinese College, School of Marxism Studies, International School of Economics and Management, Sports Department, School of International Education, School of Continuing Education, School of Business, and School of Data Science. CUEB boasts 48 undergraduate programs, including 7 major admissions by general categories. Among them, 25 programs have been approved as first-class undergraduate disciplines at national level, 14 programs as first-class undergraduate disciplines at Municipal level in Beijing, and 4 disciplines, including accounting, finance, economics, and business administration, are recognized as key first-class disciplines at Municipal level in Beijing. Programs in economics, labor and social security, statistics and human resources management have been distinguished as “featured majors” at the national level. Of these, economics, statistics and labor and social security are designated as pilot programs for national comprehensive program reform. Numbers of courses and textbooks are ranked first-class at national and municipal levels: programs for Political Economics, Labor Economics and Social Security are recognized as excellent national curricula, with Political Economics and Social Security classified as excellent national open courses, Financial Accounting, International Economics, and International Business as national bilingual model courses. Into the World of Management is recognized as a national excellent video open course; Entrepreneurial Team Building and Management is certified as national-level massive online open course; Public Finance, Finance, Financial Management, Services Marketing, Bank Management of Financial Services, Education of Morality and Fundamentals of Law, Auditing, Microeconomics and Commercial Law are awarded as national-level first-class undergraduate courses; and Customer Relationship Management is granted national-level high-quality textbook award. A total of 21 courses are accredited as high-quality undergraduate courses among universities in Beijing, and 20 textbooks are accredited as high-quality undergraduate textbooks among universities in Beijing. CUEB boasts 4 first-class disciplines that confer doctoral degrees and corresponding post-doctoral research programs, 11 first-class disciplines that confer master degrees, 18 programs that confer profession-oriented master degrees. The first-class disciplines of Applied Economics, Business Management, and Statistics are accredited as high-caliber disciplines in Beijing; Applied Economics and Business Management are supported by project of first-class discipline established by Beijing and central universities. Labor Economics, a second-class discipline of Applied Economics, is accredited as a national key discipline of the Exceptional Key Disciplines Project administered by the Ministry of Education. Applied Economics and Statistics are both key first-class disciplines in Beijing. Business Management and Accounting programs have been certified as key second-class disciplines in Beijing; Management Science & Engineering are key first-class development programs in Beijing; 7 programs including the Political Economy Department are certified as key second-class development disciplines in Beijing. Five disciplines are administered by the Ministry of Education as interdisciplinary disciplines, including Labor Relations, Economics Law, Media Management and Administration, Urban Economics and Strategic Management, and Big Data and Business Intelligence. The Economics & Management Experimental Teaching Center is rated as a national university experimental teaching center. The International Economics Professionals Education Experiment Zone is ranked as a national model innovation experiment zone for professional education. In School of Accounting, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited is approved as a national field project base for university students. CUEB is distinguished as a National Education Base for Ecological Civilization, and a member of the first batch of Innovation Practice Base for International Organization Professional Training. The “Reform and Practical Research on Upgrading the Economics Major in the Context of New Liberal Arts” is approved by the Ministry of Education as the first batch of new liberal arts reform and practice projects. Virtual Teaching and Research Office of Marketing is approved by the Ministry of Education as the first batch of pilot projects in virtual teaching and research office. Today, CUEB has 16,784 registered students, including 11,522 undergraduates, 4,482 graduates, 646 doctoral candidates, 91 international students and 43 continuing education students. Many indicators, including university admission scores, employment rate and starting annual salary of graduates, relevance to majors, employer satisfaction and career development are above the average level of universities in Beijing. CUEB has nurtured nearly 200,000 outstanding young personnel for Beijing and the country. Numerous alumni have made outstanding achievements in government, education, academia, finance, taxation, accounting, and other industries, as well as major enterprises and institutions. Nearly 80% of graduates work in local enterprises, becoming an important force serving the capital’s economic and social development. CUEB currently has more than 1,800 faculty members, including more than 1,000 full-time teachers, among whom 199 are professors, and 395 are associate professors or equivalent. There are 172 doctoral student advisers and 500 master student advisers. Among the current faculty, there are 24 recipients of the Beijing Distinguished Teacher awards, winners of Advanced Individuals in the National Education System, National Distinguished Educators, and National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Workers, members of Changjiang Distinguished Scholars, National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, National Special Support Plan for High-level Talents, National Cultural Celebrities and “Four Batches of Talents” Award as well as Ideological and Cultural Young Talents Programs Organized by Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, Programs for New Century Excellent Talents in University of Ministry of Education of China, Beijing Young Scholars and University Research Innovation Development Action Plan in Beijing. Teaching teams for human resource management courses and economics courses are rated as Excellent National Teaching Teams. The Auditing course is recognized as an ideological and political demonstration course, while its teaching team is accredited as a national famous team with famous teachers by the Ministry of Education. In addition, other teaching teams including brilliant personnel in Finance, high-quality rule-of-law personnel in the new era, excellent personnel in business administration, innovative personnel in economics and marketing won Excellent Undergraduate Education Teams among universities in Beijing. Teams from College of Business Administration and School of Statistics are accredited as high-level innovative education team during the 14th Five Year Plan period at Beijing Municipal level. In 2006, the university initiated a teacher career development program and established the CUEB Office of Teacher Advancement (OTA), one of few programs in this category in China. CUEB’s OTA is a teacher-governed organization dedicated to teacher career planning and advancement. In recent years, as CUEB has undertaken a greater number of national projects, the remarkable research achievements have kept emerging, and its capability to serve the national and capital development is growing. CUEB boasts 6 national and provincial research institutions, including the Collaborative Innovation Center for Economic and Social Development Research in Megacities, Innovation Center for Philosophy and Social Science among Beijing Universities: the Construction and Innovation Center for the ‘Two Zones’ (comprising an integrated demonstration zone for further opening up the national service sector and a pilot free trade zone ), Beijing Key Laboratory of Megaregions Sustainable Development Simulation, the Research Base of Central Business District Development, Beijing Urban Economic and Social Development Policy Research Center and National Tax Law Research Base. Among them, the Academy of Metropolis Economic and Social Development has been selected as the first batch of high-level think-tank construction pilot institutions. CUEB publishes 4 kinds of journals on a regular basis: Research on Economics and Management, Population and Economics, Journal of Capital University of Economics and Business, and Contemporary Manager, of which the first three are selected as CSSCI source journals, AMI Comprehensive Evaluation Report of Chinese Journals of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Core Journals of China. Research on Economics and Management is also selected as one of the Federation of Management Societies of China and the Highest International Impact Academic Journal of China. Population and Economics is one of the earliest demographic journals in China, and has been selected as one of the National High-quality Social Science Journals and the Excellent International Impact Academic Journal of China. CUEB has strong cooperative ties with 180 universities and research institutes in 38 countries and regions. It has been designated as an innovative training base for high-level international personnel and the Youth Global Competence Excelling Program. Furthermore, it has established a cooperative education program with the University of Arizona in the United States for Statistics (4+0), alongside establishing an innovation base for financial technology and financial econometrics. It has also formed a multi-level and multi-disciplinary education system catering to international students, focusing on Economics and Management as its key disciplines. Since 1986, it has trained over 20,000 international students from more than 90 countries and regions worldwide. Following the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, CUEB will continue to further implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress and the 13th CPC Beijing Municipal Congress. CUEB will fully implement the Party’s educational policy the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education and contribute to the Chinese modernization and the development of the Capital in the new era. CUEB is committed to pursuing high-quality development through reform and innovation, making great strides towards its vision of building a top-tier, globally recognized research university of finance and economics with distinctive features.

Central South University is a key university under the “Project 985,” one of the first batch of universities under the “Project 211,” and a leading institution in the first batch of the “2011 Plan.” In 2017, the university was selected as a World-Class University (Category A), and in 2022, it was included in the list of the second round of “Double First-Class” construction universities. The Business School is one of the 32 schools at Central South University. The School is originated from the Management Engineering Department of the Central South College of Mining and Metallurgy established in 1982. After several rounds of colleges and departments merging, it was renamed as Business School of Central South University in 2002. Throughout its four decades of history, the School has made significant development in terms of disciplinary construction, scientific research, talent cultivation and social service by adhering to the value of “Knowledge Serves the Society, Fortune Favors the Diligent”. Its discipline of Management Science and Engineering was selected as first-level national key discipline and disciplines of Economics & Business was ranked top 1% on 2022 ESI ranking list. With three first-level disciplines of “Management Science and Engineering”, “Business Administration” and “Applied Economics”, the School possesses post-doctoral research stations in “Management Science and Engineering” and “Business Administration”, and doctoral programs in each of the three disciplines and professional master’s programs of EMBA, MBA, MPAcc and MF. The School was also selected as national first-class major construction site for five undergraduate majors: “Information Management and Information System”, “Business Administration”, “Accounting”, “Finance” and “Economics and Trade”. Benchmarking against the world's top business schools, the School has obtained AACSB International Accreditation and AMBA International Accreditation. The School has over 150 full-time faculty, including 48 professors, 57 associate professors and 41 doctoral supervisors. Among them, there are 2 members of Chinese Academy of Engineering, 4 young talents at national level, 1 National candidate of the National Hundred and Thousand and Ten-Thousand Talent Project, 1 Innovation Team of National Talent Plan. The School employs nearly 30 overseas scholars as honorary professors or part-time professors, and nearly 100 part-time tutors from famous domestic enterprises for MBA. Driven by the mission of by integrating scientific essence and creating new business knowledge, the School are devoted to cultivating business elites with great virtue and innovative spirit. The School is focusing on the challenges of the new era, to do "significant research" and provide "future oriented business education" to serve local and national strategies. In 2020, under the leadership of Academician Chen Xiaohong, the academic leader of the School, the Basic Science Center Project “Theory and Application of Resource and Environment Management in the Digital Economy Era” funded by Natural Science Foundation of China was launched at the University, becoming the first national basic science center project in central China. The School has 6 provincial research centers and 18 discipline oriented research center teams. In the past five years, the School carries out scientific research in response to the major national key needs, and it has undertaken a total of 87 national-level research projects, including 61 National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC) projects (with 9 major/key projects), 15 National Social Science Foundation (NSSF) projects (with 4 major/key projects), as well as multiple projects under the Ministry of Science and Technology’s National Key Research and Development Plan. The total research funding brought into the university has reached $20,663,156, and the School has received 20 major national and provincial-level awards, contributing the wisdom of the Business School to economic and social development. With an enrollment of more than 4000 students, the School catches up with the needs of the times and aims at the frontiers of practice, has created a compound business talent training model featuring "Humanities and Science Integration, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Digital Intelligence Cultivation, Multi-practical Paths”. Since its establishment, the School has trained more than 30,000 senior management talents and around 600 alumni enterprises are founded. (Statistics as of September 2024)

Copenhagen Business School has the status of an independent university and has more than 20,000 students and app. 450 full-time professors (assistant/associate/full). CBS is thus one of the largest business schools in Northern Europe, covering a wide range of business-related academic fields. The Department of Strategy and Innovation (SI) is one of 11 departments within CBS. The department has about 50 faculty members, currently including 20 professors, 20 associate professors, 10 assistant professors, in addition to 8 postdocs and 15 PhD students. The department’s research is focused on strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship and international business. The department’s research is generally cross-disciplinary with a strong element of quantitative methods. Faculty members have published in top academic journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Management Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Research Policy, among others. 

Corvinus University of Budapest (CORVINUS/Corvinus or Corvinus University for short) is a medium-sized European institution with a focus on business, economics and social sciences. It is one of Hungary’s leading educational institutions in the field of economics and social sciences. And more than that, it is a community that is good and worth belonging to.Building on more than a century of tradition, we are constantly evolving. Together with our teachers, researchers and staff, we work to make Corvinus one of the best universities in the world, and to educate the social and economic elite of the region here in Hungary. Our aim is to ensure that talented students do not have to choose a foreign university in order to acquire internationally recognised, competitive and marketable knowledge. Social and financial status should not be a barrier to learning: our high-achieving students can study free of charge on the basis of excellence.Corvinus is about quality and opportunity: up-to-date and useful knowledge, a wide range of contacts, career opportunities and lifelong friendships. At our university, we strive to achieve more together.

Dalian University of Technology (DUT) is a national key university directly administrated by the Ministry of Education of China and sponsored by Project 211 and Project 985. In September 2017, after approval by the State Council, DUT was selected into the university of the “Double First-Class” Initiative, category A. It has formed a multi-disciplinary system that focuses on science and engineering and coordinates the disciplines of economics, management, humanities, law, philosophy, and arts. Internationalization is one of the important strategic goals of DUT. The university is actively involved in promoting the “One Belt, One Road” education initiative and building a community of shared future for mankind. DUT has established long-term stable collaborations with 311 universities and institutions in 42 countries and regions. At present, the university has established 3 Sino-foreign cooperative institutions with Ritsumeikan University, Leicester University, and Belarusian State University respectively, and 1 Sino-foreign cooperative program with University of California, Irvine. In order to enhance students’ international vision and academic capability, the university actively fosters over 150 overseas exchange programs, and in recent years, nearly 3,000 students study overseas for long and short-term exchanges each year; more than 600 overseas experts and scholars have been invited to DUT for long/short-term visiting programs each year; nearly 20 national foreign expert programs have been approved each year; more than teachers going overseas for long/short-term exchanges or visits each year; since 2022, the university has 1,315 international students. DUT has joined 21 international organizations and alliances in higher education, including Sino-EU Engineering Education Platform, Association of Sino-Russian Technical Universities, University Alliance of Belt & Road, Shanghai Cooperation Organization University, China-Central Eastern European Countries Higher Education Institutions Consortium, ASEAN-China Network for Cooperation and Exchange among Engineering and Technology Universities, etc. Among them, Excellence 9 and Sixers was initiated by DUT, which has built a rich network of international partners.

Core research areas of the Department of Business Humanities and Law at Copenhagen Business School are organized into different research Units: Entrepreneurship, Ethics and Leadership; Governance, Culture and Learning; and CBS Law. Faculty within these groups have research backgrounds in all areas of law, political science, sociology, philosophy, history, anthropology, literature, theology, aesthetics, design and innovation, tourism and leisure management, cultural economics, leadership and strategy, pedagogic study, and other areas. What unites faculty is an overriding concern for the organization of the human within its multiple environments: work, nature, economy, civil association, the state, and corporation. BHL also participates in numerous interdisciplinary cross-CBS activities. In line with this concern, the postdoc should demonstrate a capacity to bridge across several of these environments and place the human at the heart of the project.

Donghua University (DHU) is a university directly under the Ministry of Education (MOE), a national "211 Project" and a national "Double First Class" university. Its history can be traced back to the Textile Dyeing Institute founded by industrialist Zhang Jian in 1912, and was founded in 1951 as the East China Institute of Textile Engineering, which was recognized as a national key university by the Ministry of Education in 1960, and became one of the first universities in China with the right to confer doctoral, master's, and bachelor's degrees in 1981, and was renamed China Textile University in 1985, and was recognized as a key university under the national "211 Project" in 1998 and renamed China University of Textiles in 1999, and was renamed China University of Textiles in 1999. In 1998, it was recognized as one of the key institutions of higher education under the national "211 Project", and was renamed Donghua University in 1999, and was selected as one of the national "double first-class" construction universities in 2017. Adhering to the school motto of "Virtue and erudition, sharpness and practicality", the university has developed into a multidisciplinary and high-level university with distinctive features. As early as 1953, DHU had established the Teaching and Research Group on Business Organization and Planning in the Textile Industry, gathering China's first generation of experts in management including Professor Shiqiu Zhou, Doctor of Public Administration, Harvard University, Professor Qichun Zhang and Ying Tang, Doctor of former Soviet Union. In 1959 DHU set up the undergraduate program in industrial engineering and management and began to enroll postgraduates in 1979. In September 1983, it launched the first cohort of the master's degree program in industrial engineering and management. In December that year, it set up the Department of industrial Engineering and Management, which was expanded into School of Economics and Management in1993. One year later, the Glorious Sun School of Business and Management (GSSBM) came to birth after being sponsored by Glorious Sun Enterprise Limited (GSE) with HK$ 11 million. GSSBM has 101 faculties, among which 37 doctoral supervisors, 36 professors and 40 associate professors. There are 1785 undergraduates?1656 postgraduates and 128 PhD students.

The Department of Management at HKUST aims to continue as a leading intellectual center for management research and education. The university provides a supportive research and teaching environment with attractive research funding, strong teaching support staff and leading-edge facilities. The Department has a group of productive faculty members with great enthusiasm in conducting high quality research, which is regularly published in premier management journals. Please browse our department website (https://mgmt.hkust.edu.hk/) for information about the faculty, our teaching, current research programs, and our research centers.

The School of Management was established in 1979. At present, it has 7 undergraduate majors, including Business Administration, Marketing, Accounting, Information Management and Information Systems, Computational Finance, Big Data Management and Application, and Supply Chain Management. It has 2 academic master's degree authorization points in Management Science and Engineering and Business Administration, and 3 professional master's degree authorization points such as Master of Business Administration (MBA/EMBA), Master of Accounting, and Engineering Management. It also has 2 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points in Management Science and Engineering and Business Administration, as well as post-doctoral research stations. The school has strong scientific research strength. It has undertaken more than 1,700 national, provincial (ministerial) and enterprise cooperation projects, and more than 300 National Natural Science Foundation of China and National Social Science Foundation of China projects. In the past five years, the School of Management has approved 28 national major and key projects, including 1 National Natural Science Foundation of China Innovation Research Group Project, 1 major project (cooperative), 2 sub-projects of major projects, 7 key projects and 1 key special project, 4 major projects of the National Social Science Foundation of China, 1 key project, 1 National Key R&D Program project, and 1 major project of the Ministry of Education's Social Sciences. The school has successively passed the international certifications of AMBA and AACSB. In October 2024, the school held the EQUIS on-site certification, and passed the AACSB re-certification in 2025, obtaining the highest certification period of six years.

Hult International Business School (including Hult Ashridge Executive Education) is a non-profit educational pioneer and the first triple-accredited (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA) US business school, with US and UK degree awarding powers. We have a range of highly ranked (including FT MBA #92) programs from BBA, Business Masters, MBA, and DBA programmes. Our global campuses are in Boston, London, and Dubai. The School’s philosophy is that business skills can only truly be learned by doing - therefore we believe in immersing students from all over the world in practical, hands-on experiences from day one, our approach to education is creating a global community of confident, entrepreneurially minded graduates, ready to tackle the challenges of tomorrow.

The National University of Singapore (NUS) is Singapore’s flagship university, which offers a global approach to education, research and entrepreneurship, with a focus on Asian perspectives and expertise. We have 16 colleges, faculties and schools with more than 40,000 students from 100 countries enriching our vibrant and diverse community. We have also established our NUS Overseas Colleges programme in more than 15 cities around the world. For more information on NUS, please visit www.nus.edu.sg.

Rhodes is a nationally ranked residential college committed to the liberal arts and sciences. Our highest priorities are intellectual engagement, community excellence, service to others, and honor among ourselves. Our students live and learn on one of the country’s most beautiful campuses, located in the heart of Memphis, an economic, medical, and culturally diverse center, making Rhodes one of a handful of prominent liberal arts colleges in a major metropolitan area.

Rollins College is a comprehensive liberal arts college located just north of Orlando, FL, a diverse metropolitan community with a thriving economic and cultural scene. Nearby Orlando International Airport provides easy access to U.S. and international destinations. The college emphasizes innovative and quality teaching in small classes and ranks number one among 121 Southern master's-level universities in the annual rankings of “America's Best Colleges,” released by U.S. News & World Report. Please visit the college website at www.rollins.edu.

About SWUFE Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE), a national key university directly administered by China's Ministry of Education, stands as a beacon of excellence in finance, economics, and business education. Strategically located in Chengdu - a UNESCO City of Gastronomy renowned for its rich history, vibrant culture, and exceptional quality of life - SWUFE nurtures over 25,000 full-time students across its world-class programs. With a century-old legacy of innovation, we continue to lead educational transformation in Western China. Explore more: https://www.swufe.edu.cn School of Business Administration (SBA) - Pioneering Excellence As SWUFE's flagship institution, SBA has consistently set benchmarks in management education: · First EQUIS-accredited business school (2014) and successful re-accreditation (2024) in Western China · Pioneer of MBA/EMBA programs in Southwestern China (1993/2002) · National leader with "Category A" Business Administration discipline (Top 5% nationally, 2nd in Western China) · 40% international faculty from top-tier global universities · First doctoral programs in Management (1993) and Industrial Economics (1987) Discover our community: https://gs.swufe.edu.cn

As one of the earliest Chinese higher institutions to establish majors of economics and management, HIT business majors were originated from 1928. In 1955, Department of Engineering Economics was established, which was the first department of engineering economics among all Chinese engineering colleges. In 1984, with the approval of Ministry of Education, SoM was officially established as one of the first schools of management in China. SoM became the first AMBA-accredited school in Northeast China in 2012, and passed CAMEA (Chinese Advanced Management Education Accreditation) and AMBA re-accreditation in 2017. In 2021, SoM passed AACSB accreditation.

As a national key university under the direct administration of the Ministry of Education of China, Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) is one of the oldest modern institutions of higher education in China. XJTU is one of the first batch of the key universities in Chia, was supported by the Central Government at the seventh and eighth five-year plans. As one of the first seven universities entering China’s “211 Project” and “985 Project”, XJTU is selected to be developed into a global first-class university. Originally constructed in 1928, and restored and reconstructed in Dec.1984, the XJTU School of Management is one of the earliest and top-ranked management schools in China with triple accreditation of AACSB International (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) Stars, and EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System). It is among the first batch of schools in China to offer the professional degree programs such as MBA and EMBA. It now has two state first-level key disciplines—Business Administration & Management Science and Engineering. Since 2002, the two disciplines ranked among the top places in the discipline appraisal by the Ministry of Education. In 2017, Business Administration and Management Science and Engineering were both selected as the national-level “Double First-Class” disciplines. Our mission is to develop innovative, principled and outstanding managerial talents and leaders with global perspective for China and the world. The School of Management consists of seven departments, currently staffed by 107 full-time faculty members. Our distinctive and diversified programmes – undergraduate, master, Ph.D, MBA, EMBA, MPAcc, MEM, and other senior management training programs - are intellectually rigorous and have contemporary and professional relevance. We are confident that the School of Management will always stand in the front of management research and be a good place longed for by management talents. We will continue to make great efforts to make our school more influential word-renowned in social services. Information about the School of Management can be obtained at http://som.xjtu.edu.cn

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The College of Business at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE) is among the top management schools in China. The Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Organizational Behavior faculty support three undergraduate option areas and several robust postgraduate and PhD programs within the College, including the MBA and EMBA programs geared toward working professionals. Through internal and external collaboration, our faculty members have published in leading international journals in management such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, and Organization Science.

Skidmore College is a highly selective, nationally ranked liberal arts college that fosters creative approaches to teaching and learning and values diversity. Our student population consists of approx. 2,650 undergraduates, of whom 26% are domestic students of color, 15% are first-generation college students, and 11% are international students. With its relatively small size and low student-faculty ratio (8:1), the College is a close-knit academic community. The Department of Mathematics and Statistics, which consists of approx. 12 full-time faculty members, is located in Skidmore’s Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences, a state-of-the-art teaching and learning space that fosters unique interdisciplinary connections across the sciences, arts, and humanities. Located in the vibrant community of Saratoga Springs, New York, the 1,200-acre Skidmore campus is adjacent to the Adirondack Mountains and is only a 30-minute drive from Albany and a 3-hour drive from New York City, Boston, and Montreal. Rail service from the Saratoga Amtrak station offers additional travel options, including a direct line to New York City. Travel & Leisure calls Saratoga Springs one of “America’s best college towns.”

The Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) is a top university specialized in finance, economics, and business. It is known for its entrepreurial character and unremitting endeavours to address the needs of the people and society through academics, research, and influence on alumni, drawn from the legacy of its founders and generations of excellent alumni. SWUFE is located in Chengdu, the engine-city for the development of Western China and the fourth-largest aviation hub in China.

About the Stockholm School of Economics The Stockholm School of Economics is ranked as the top business school in the Nordic and Baltic countries and enjoys a strong international reputation. World-class research forms the foundation of our educational offering, which includes Bachelor, Master, PhD, MBA, and Executive Education programs. Through creativity and collaboration, the Stockholm School of Economics provides an environment where ambitious students and accomplished researchers meet to address contemporary challenges within business and economics, particularly those concerning sustainability, diversity and innovation. Apart from delivering world class education within business and economics, SSE students are trained to be successful decision makers and leaders of the future. Our educational mission has over the years strengthened SSE students, and you can read more about it on our website www.hhs.se/en/. SSE is committed to a balanced gender distribution and values a variety of backgrounds and experiences among our employees. We therefore welcome all applicants regardless of their gender, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, disability, sexual orientation, age, or religion or other beliefs.

Founded in 1855, TCNJ is a selective public primarily undergraduate institution that has earned national recognition for its commitment to excellence. TCNJ emphasizes the residential experience for our nearly 7,500 full-time students. Students benefit from a 13-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio and an average class size of 24 students, which has contributed to TCNJ attaining a first-year to sophomore retention rate of 94%, a 4-year graduation rate of 76% (4th highest among U.S. publics), and an 86% six-year graduation rate. TCNJ has received national recognition for its teacher-scholar faculty model and deep engagement of our undergraduates in research, scholarship, and creative activity. TCNJ also has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter—an honor shared by less than 10 percent of colleges nationally. A strong liberal arts core forms the foundation for programs offered through TCNJ’s seven schools—Arts and Communication; Business; Education; Engineering; Humanities and Social Sciences; Nursing, Health, and Exercise Science; and Science. TCNJ is located within an hour of New York City and Philadelphia. The College’s campus is set in suburban Ewing Township and is known for its natural beauty. For more information about the college, please visit: http://www.tcnj.edu/.

The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK) is a non-profit private liberal-arts-oriented university with six Schools (Business, Communication, Decision Sciences, Humanities and Social Science, Translation and Foreign Languages, and Transdisciplinary Studies) and closing to 7,000 full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students. Adopting the unique “Liberal + Professional” education model, HSUHK aims to nurture young talents with critical thinking, innovative minds, caring attitudes, moral values and social responsibility. Aspiring to be a leading private university in the region, HSUHK features a primary focus on undergraduate education, top-quality faculty members, award-winning green campus facilities, innovative degree programmes, unique residential college system combining living and learning, interactive small class teaching, very close student-teacher relationship, RGC-funded impactful research, and excellent student development/support services. HSUHK is listed the 7th (overall) in the ASEAN+ region, the 1st in the Greater China region, and the 1st in Employability as per the 2023 AppliedHE ASEAN+ private university assessment by the Singapore-based AppliedHE. It is also listed among the top 200 worldwide on “Quality Education” and “Decent Work and Economic Growth” in the Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2021.

Formally established in June 2022, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)(HKUST(GZ)) is a cooperatively-run higher education institution between the Chinese mainland and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. HKUST(GZ) has obtained approval from the Ministry of Education (MoE) and become the first legally-independent educational institution co-established by the Mainland and Hong Kong since the announcement and implementation of the “Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area” and the “Overall Plan for Deepening Globally Oriented Comprehensive Co-operation amongst Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao in Nansha of Guangzhou”. HKUST(GZ) is located at No.1 Duxue Road, Qingsheng Hub Cluster, Nansha District, Guangzhou. The campus covers an area of about 1,669 mu (111.3 hectares) and is divided into two construction phases. The first phase covers an area of about 716 mu (47.7 hectares) with a floorage of about 636,000 square meters (63.6 hectares), which has been officially put into use in September 2022. The intended areas of focus in the GZ Campus will be thematic and cross-disciplinary in nature, synergistic with HKUST without overlapping academic degrees or structures. HKUST(GZ) comprises four Hubs, namely Function Hub, Information Hub, Systems Hub, Society Hub and offers 15 postgraduate degrees. At steady state, the number of undergraduate and postgraduate students will reach a total of 10,000.

University Information UNC Greensboro, located in the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina, is 1 of only 57 doctoral institutions recognized by the Carnegie Foundation for both higher research activity and community engagement. Founded in 1891 and one of the original three UNC System institutions, UNC Greensboro is one of the most diverse universities in the state with approximately 18,000 students, and 2,800+ faculty and staff members representing 90+ nationalities. With 17 Division I athletic teams, 85 undergraduate degrees in over 125 areas of study, as well as 74 master’s and 32 doctoral programs, UNC Greensboro is consistently recognized nationally among the top universities for academic excellence and value, with noted strengths in health and wellness, visual and performing arts, nursing, education, and more. For additional information, please visit uncg.edu and follow UNCG on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Department and Bryan School Information The Department of Management offers two undergraduate majors, in International Business, and Business Administration with concentrations in Business Studies (face-to-face and online), Human Resources, and Management; an online Master of Science in International Business; an online PhD in Business Administration (with concentrations in International Business, Organizational Behavior, and Strategy); and contributes to delivering the undergraduate business core and the MBA program. Our faculty members are very active in research and have published in such journals as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Harvard Business Review, Human Relations, Industrial & Organizational Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Leadership Quarterly, Management Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Strategic Management Journal, to name a few. The Bryan School of Business and Economics has 4,160 undergraduate and graduate students and more than 120 full- and part-time faculty members housed in six departments and programs. Approximately 43 percent of the school’s faculty are women, and 27.3 percent are from underrepresented ethnic groups (UREG); the School is striving to improve both percentages. The Bryan School graduates more Black/African American undergraduate business students, and the combination of Black/African American and Hispanic undergraduate business students, more than ANY university in North Carolina and has a strong placement rate and salary. Accredited in both business and accounting by AACSB, the Bryan School is the recipient of many rankings, honors, and accolades and the faculty are active in research. For example, in 2022 its tenure-stream faculty members averaged 2.3 peer-reviewed journal articles each (16 in FT50 journals), plus 10 others in widely acknowledged A-level journals, in addition to nine books, 23 grants and contracts, and 118 editorial positions with peer reviewed journals. The Bryan School has two dedicated recording studios and two dedicated HyFlex (studio) classrooms to support its extensive asynchronous online offerings, and the growing opportunity for synchronous online offerings. More information about the Bryan School may be found at https://bryan.uncg.edu/.

The University of Texas at Tyler is part of the prestigious University of Texas System that includes 13 institutions located throughout the state. Founded in 1971, UT Tyler today enrolls 10,000 students and consists of six colleges. Our beautiful Tyler campus features more than 200 acres nestled along a lake and surrounded by thick pine and oak forests, providing a picturesque location for study and recreation. We also offer instructional sites at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler and in Palestine, Longview, and Houston. With more than 80 bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs offered, UT Tyler provides a wealth of learning opportunities and dynamic programs. For more information, please visit https://www.uttyler.edu/about/. Tyler is located in the beautiful East Texas lake country on the I-20 corridor, about 100 miles east of Dallas and 200 miles north of Houston. Tyler is an economically strong and rapidly growing community with a population of 100,000+. The Soules College of Business is AACSB-accredited and houses five academic departments, with a student population of 2,100 students and more than 60 full-time faculty and staff members.

Originally under the name “Tsinghua Xuetang”, Tsinghua University was founded in 1911 and is one of the most prestigious universities in China. Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (Tsinghua SEM) was established in 1984, with Mr. ZHU Rongji as the founding dean. After 40 years of development, Tsinghua SEM has achieved remarkable results in talent cultivation, scientific research, social services, cultural heritage innovation and international exchanges and cooperation. It has taken the lead in obtaining the top two certifications of global management education (AACSB and EQUIS) and becomes a leading economics and management school in China. The school has about 6000 students in the undergraduate, doctoral, master’s, MBA and EMBA programs. Tsinghua SEM has a strong faculty team with about 150 full-time faculty members.

Located in the Technopolis of Rabat, the capital city of the Kingdom of Morocco with executive training also in Casablanca or at clients’ headquarters and offices, ABS (Africa Business School) aims to be the inclusive hub of lifelong learners and mindful doers, shaping the business and societal landscape in Africa & beyond. Pioneered by OCP (as it is also the case for UM6P), the global leader of the phosphate industry and one the largest Moroccan firm, ABS's legitimate ambition is to become the leading school in Africa in the field of business and management sciences. The school benefits from an exceptional learning and research ethos in Africa and has signed several partnerships with world class universities and schools (Columbia BS, Ecole Polytechnique, HEC Paris, Ecole des Ponts Paritech…) ABS mission is to: - Train next generation leaders to be critical thinkers, creative entrepreneurs, and socially responsible actors. - Develop multi-disciplinary research and groundbreaking education methods to enhance students’ holistic and analytical competencies and allow them to embrace paradox and lead in fast moving and complex environments. - Stimulate collaborative innovation that reaches beyond the classroom and connects students with stakeholders across a wide range of sectors. - Build an ever-evolving thriving network of change makers: students, alumni, researchers, faculty, staff, organizations, academic institutions, and public sector players. - Act as both an engine and a bridge for the diffusion and expansion of a world-class and impactful business & management knowledge grounded in Africa’s contexts. The school is growing rapidly both in Executive Education (Open & Custom programs), in degree programs (MBA, executive Masters) and in Doctoral programs (PhD, DBA, postdocs). ABS aims for quality and the highest standards in degree and continuing professional development programs.

The University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), founded in 1951, is a multi-disciplinary and national key university with economics, management, law, literature and science as its core academic areas of expertise. UIBE consists of 18 academic schools, 16 research institutes, one Graduate School and one Department of Physical Education. UIBE offers over 1465 undergraduate courses, 1638 postgraduate courses and 311 doctoral courses. Furthermore, UIBE has 2300 international students from over 150 countries that account for 15% of the university’s total number of students. In 1989, UIBE became the first university in China to have a Board of Trustees, with its members from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (predecessor of the Ministry of Commerce), state-owned international trading companies, Chinese Customs, the Bank of China, the People's Insurance Company of China, and the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Li Lanqing and Ms. WU Yi, the former Vice–Premiers of the State Council, China chaired the Board for its first and second session relatively.

USTB SEM is a multidisciplinary school dedicated to advancing knowledge and cultivating innovative capabilities in the fields of management and economics for the betterment of industry and society. It holds a triple accreditation (AMBA, AACSB, and EQUIS) and offers a full-range of degree programs including undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs. Our faculty, numbering over 126, are trained in diverse disciplines and share a commitment to addressing issues of public importance in both teaching and research, among which more than 95% have a Ph.D. and 80% have overseas education and research experience. SEM has forged strategic partnerships with top-tier business schools and academic institutions worldwide, including those in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Germany, and beyond. SEM also attracts a diverse student body from over 50 countries, fostering a dynamic and inclusive learning environment enriched by cultural exchange and global perspectives.

The Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University is a vibrant environment for research and teaching with approximately 130 staff members and a complete graduate program.

VinUniversity (VinUni: https://vinuni.edu.vn/) is the first private, not-for-profit Vietnamese university established based on international standards. The university integrates the models of excellent international universities with the unique cultural and economic characteristics of Vietnam, to make a breakthrough in Vietnamese higher education and to become a world-class university. VinUni has strategic collaborations with the world’s leading universities, including Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania. These universities have become close advisors and crucial enablers in establishing the three colleges at VinUni: College of Business and Management, College of Engineering and Computer Science, and College of Health Sciences. Every aspect of the University: its curricula, research, faculty, student body, facilities, and campus life, is being developed to meet the highest standards set by the world’s leading accrediting and ranking organizations, such as ABET, AACSB, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and Times Higher Education (THE). VinUni’s founding benefactor Vingroup is one of the biggest private conglomerates in Asia with the largest market capitalization value in Vietnam. As a multisector corporation, Vingroup focuses on three main areas: Technology; Industrials; and Property Services. VinUni is proud to be a part of the Vingroup ecosystem, giving its students opportunities to connect with several high quality research institutes (such as VinAI, VinBrain, and Vin BigData), pioneering industrial enterprises (such as VinSmart and VinFast), and leading Vietnamese companies (such as Vinpearl, Vincom Retail, Vinmec, and Vinhomes).

Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics currently has three campuses, Xiasha, Wenhua, and Chang'an, covering an area of nearly 2,000 mu. It has 22 colleges (research institutes), one independent college, and five affiliated schools (kindergartens, primary schools, and middle schools). There are more than 22,000 full-time undergraduate students (excluding the independent college) and over 1,800 faculty members. Currently, it has one provincial top - tier discipline, seven provincial first - class disciplines, four first - level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, ten first - level discipline master's degree authorization points, and twenty professional master's degree authorization points. Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics fully implements the fundamental task of cultivating people with moral integrity, deeply promotes the reform of talent cultivation models such as "finance and economics × digital intelligence", "finance and economics × science and technology", and "finance and economics + industry", accelerates the construction of a new cultivation system featuring "disciplinary integration, industry - education integration, and science - education integration", and focuses on cultivating MAQ - type "Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics Talents" with high sentiment, high ability, and high quality. Since its establishment, Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics has provided more than 200,000 outstanding talents for national economic construction and social development. These talents have made remarkable achievements in their respective fields.

School of Management at Zhejiang University (ZJU-SOM) is a leading business school and a pioneer in management education in Chinese mainland. Hangzhou, where our School resides, is one of the foremost entrepreneurship hubs in China and the world. Underpinned by the region’s thriving private economy, ZJU-SOM boasts unrivaled connectivity with industry and has sealed our differentiating excellence in innovation and entrepreneurship.