Introduction

Lingnan College of Sun Yat-sen University was named after Lingnan University, which was first founded in Guangzhou in 1888. By 1930s, Lingnan University had enjoyed prestigious reputation both at home and abroad, with academic links with many famous universities worldwide. In 1952, as a result of the reorganization of all the universities in China, departments of Lingnan University were incorporated into Sun Yat-sen University and other universities. In December 1987, Lingnan College of Sun Yat-sen University was established with the approval of the Ministry of Education of China.

To be a leading business school with international recognition, Lingnan College has constantly dedicated to developing higher education in Theoretical Economics, Applied Economics and Business Management. In business management education, Lingnan College has developed extensive cooperation with prestigious business schools all around the world-with MIT Sloan School of Management on International MBA Program in 1999, with Carlson School of Management of University of Minnesota on Chinese EMBA (CHEMBA) Program in 2001, with University of California at Berkeley on Healthcare EMBA (h-EMBA) Program in 2003 and with EM-LYON and Lyon 3 on a French diploma of international commerce (DESS) program. These partnerships provide enormous education resources for Lingnan College's business education.

Lingnan MBA program believes in "Education for Service" and our mission is to develop international business leaders for tomorrow. Lingnan MBA students, faculty and staff all value and advocate the values of "Ethical, Pragmatic, Enterprising, Tolerant and Strategically-Minded". Our vision is "to become one of the foremost business schools in China and participate effectively with first-tire of business schools in the Asia Pacific regions".

We currently offer two MBA options, the International MBA program (IMBA) and the Bilingual MBA program (BMBA). Lingnan IMBA program was launched in 1999 and jointly developed with MIT Sloan School of Management. It is one of MIT Sloan's three China Management Education Projects and the other two are the distinguished Chinese educational institutions - Tsinghua University and Fudan University. In the IMBA program, all courses are instructed in English and MIT Sloan MBA curriculum and teaching methods are adopted in the program, together with textbooks, cases, and other teaching materials. The IMBA students will be awarded the Master of Business Administration degree of Sun Yat-sen University together with MIT Sloan certificate upon graduation. Lingnan BMBA program was launched in 2006 to meet the strong need of MBA applicants. In the BMBA program, some courses will be taught in Chinese by senior Chinese professors while others in English, depending on the difficulty in understanding the course in English by students. We aim to provide all courses in English at the latter period as the students enhance their English proficiency. The BMBA students will be awarded the Master of Business Administration degree of Sun Yat-sen University upon graduation.

We are committed to providing rich international learning experience to our MBA students, both IMBAs and BMBAs. In additional to the curriculum, students are encouraged to participate in wide range of activities beyond class to develop their leadership, courage and personality to take the challenges of 21st century. And these activities include the exciting Orientation week, Lingnan MBA business plan competition, Diary Farm Seminars, international competition, overseas internships, international exchange study, field trips and etc.

(Source: Sun Yat-sen University Lingnan College)

Admission Requirements

1) Those who have a bachelor's degree and recommendations by two professors or associate professors and have passed the examinations, aged 40 or under.