CUHK MBA is the choice for leaders in Asia
- Fast track with Global Exposure: A 12-month MBA study course that equips you with Asian insight and expands your global perspective with business field trips. You can also gain fruitful experience by participating in exchange programmes or dual degree programmes with extended study period.
- Leading in the Digital Age: From fintech, AI, big data, digital marketing to digital transformation, develop your credentials as a future leader in the era of digital transformation
- Come to where East meets West: A range of exchange programmes, study tours and field trips blend international business learning with essential China business exposure
- Gain real-life exposure: Insights and hands-on experience all come with our Business Practicum projects and Entrepreneurship Training
- Work visa after graduation: Eligible non-local MBA graduates after completing full-time studies may apply for the ‘Immigration Arrangements for Non-local Graduates’ (IANG) visa to remain in Hong Kong for 24 months to seek and take up employment
Study Roadmap (12/16 months)
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* The above curriculum, activities and study sequence are for reference only and subject to change.
Six Optional Concentrations
To tailor your MBA education for career acceleration and building expertise in a specific area, CUHK MBA will offer 6 optional concentrations starting from academic year 2022-23.
Students may select either General MBA or up to two concentration options to complete the units of elective courses. Those choosing the concentration option(s) are required to complete 9 units of elective courses for each chosen concentration option(s).
Business Analytics
To help students strengthen data-driven decision making and prepare them for driving innovation, Business Analytics concentration aims to enable students to make extensive use of data for identifying business insights, predicting market changes, and ultimately improving strategic decision making for organisations.
Featured course examples under this concentration:
- Application of AI in Finance
- Database and Big Data Management
- FinTech Analytics
- Management Consulting
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Platform and Business Strategies
- Digital Marketing
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
In the modern business environment, entrepreneurial mindsets are critical whether students plan to work within an organisation or start their own business. CUHK MBA is the first MBA in Asia offering an Entrepreneurship and Innovation concentration, is determined to help you embrace intrapreneurship, innovation, and agility and design thinking. We strive to train you to be among the continent’s most visionary leaders.
Featured course examples under this concentration:
- Management Decision Making
- Managing Family Business
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Venture Capital & Private Equity
- Business Negotiation
- Current Fintech Trends
- Managing Innovation & Technology
- New Venture Business Project
- Platform and Business Strategies
- Applied Methods in Technology New Venturing
- Creating Self-efficacy and Impact on Communication
- Funding Technology Commercialization and Applied Entrepreneurship
- Design Thinking for Business Innovation
- Strategic Value of Innovation Technology
Information and Technology Management
In the digital era, advancement in information technology is fundamental to success. Information and Technology Management concentration allows students to learn how to leverage cutting-edge IT skills, data and business analytics to develop effective business strategies.
Featured course examples under this concentration:
- Database and Big Data Management
- Digital Marketing
- Managing Innovation & Technology
- Platform and Business Strategies
- FinTech Analytics
- Application of AI in Finance
Finance
The world is experiencing digital transformation, and nowhere is this clearer than within finance. CUHK MBA offers in-demand technological and financial skills with a focus on analytical and critical thinking, all of which is essential to help you thrive in the competitive workplace and to be an innovative leader in the digital age.
Featured course examples under this concentration:
- Business Valuation and Analysis
- Current Fintech Trends
- Venture Capital & Private Equity
- New Venture Financing in China and Emerging Markets
- Corporate Fund-Raising Initiatives in the Chinese Equity Markets
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management
- Money and Capital Markets
- FinTech Analytics
- Application of AI in Finance
- Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing
- Funding Technology Commercialization and Applied Entrepreneurship
China Business
China’s emergence into the world economy and the development of the Greater Bay Area offers a unique opportunity for prospective business leaders. Students in the China Business concentration can benefit from CUHK’s long-established role as a gateway between China and the rest of the world.
China Business concentration is designed to enable students to discover market opportunities in China by mastering China business knowledge and practical training about doing businesses in China.
Featured course examples under this concentration:
- China in Global Economy
- Corporate Fund-Raising Initiatives in the Chinese Equity Markets
- Managing Family Business
- New Venture Financing in China and Emerging Markets
- Digital Marketing
- Design Thinking for Business Innovation
- Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing
- Creating Self-efficacy and Impact on Communication
Marketing
To win in the age of the empowered consumer, Marketing concentration is primarily geared toward those students with an interest in managerial marketing and big data marketing by learning data-driven and strategic marketing knowledge.
Featured course examples under this concentration:
- Digital Marketing
- Behavioral Decision Making
- Database and Big Data Management
- Business Negotiation
- Creating Self-efficacy and Impact on Communication
- Design Thinking for Business Innovation
** The featured courses offered are subject to change in each term and academic year.
Business Practicum
You will have a chance to participate in one of the projects sponsored by diverse Hong Kong corporations and see how your business ideas, models, and hypotheses play out in the real world to solve a business challenge. A senior staff of the sponsoring company also joins the team as a supervisor to support the successful completion of the project. We offer a wide range of practicum topics like retail, transport, healthcare, hotel and tourism, and property.
This elective course is open for full-time and part-time Year 2 MBA students.
Field Studies
With business field study trips to Greater China, Asia, Europe and the United States, CUHK MBA students leave the school grounds for a short while to see beyond the business setting already familiar to them.
Expect to make new connections between your areas of study by experiencing them first-hand in a culturally different environment, and enhance your understanding through visits and interactions with local enterprises, lectures and seminars, business professionals, government officials and local alumni.
Exchange Programme
With distinguished universities worldwide as exchange partnering schools, students are provided with a truly global perspective and benefit from a significant expansion of their global networks and far greater opportunities to demonstrate their ability to be a global leader.
United States / Canada
- University of Michigan
- University of British Columbia
- The University of Chicago
- The University of Toronto
Europe
- Bocconi University
- HEC Paris
- London Business School
- Warwick Business School
- IE Business School
Asia
- CEIBS
- National University of Singapore, NUS Business School
- Seoul National University
- Peking University
- Waseda University
Full Course List
Course offerings are subject to change. All MBA courses will be taught in English, with the exception of elective courses of a unique nature in which teaching in Chinese is preferable.
The world of global financial services is changing rapidly with the emergence of financial technologies, commonly referred as fintech. This course will cover key fintech concepts such as virtual banking, blockchain, digital currencies, tokenization, and others.
Examining a variety of case studies drawn from the industry, students will learn about recent developments in fintech from the perspectives of entrepreneurs, consumers and regulators. While Asian cases will be emphasized, some American and European examples will also be discussed so that students will acquire a global view of the subject. A few industry practitioners will be invited as guest speakers to share their entrepreneurial experience in fintech with students.
This is an introductory course where computer programming is not required. However, basic knowledge in financial valuation analysis and statistics will be useful. The objective is to learn about the use of new technologies in solving business problems, and appreciate how current fintech trends will impact and shape the financial industry in the future.
This course focuses on both business data and contemporary big data modeling and management. We will examine the different natures of data and big data, selection and representation as well as use of suitable methods and tools for storing and accessing them. Topics such as data integrity, DBMS, data warehousing, NoSQL and MapReduce are covered.
The purpose of this course is to help students understand what design thinking is all about— its relationship to creativity and innovation and how it can be applied to foster experience and business model innovation.
This class concentrates in the adoption of ethnographic, visualization and brainstorming techniques and modeling frameworks to complement conventional market research, decision tree, and SWOT analysis. Gamification of customer experience, co-creation with customers, and the design of an experience network will be the main emphasis of our study.
This course aims to discuss some new topics in digital marketing. It covers the interaction between online and offline marketing; the challenge of social media marketing to traditional marketing theories; models and problems of sharing economy; a discussion of different pricing models of internet companies; and the development and the influence of artificial intelligence (AI).
Digital transformation and innovation has become an integral part of every corporate’s business strategy, if they are to remain competitive even as industry incumbents now. However, complications surface when executives have to align where to invest – digital transformation to drive operational efficiencies, customer experience, or new products and services, as well as incremental innovation, or disruptive innovation.
This course introduces practical frameworks and key elements to guide the thought process behind assessment and formation of a digital transformation and innovation strategy. Strong emphasis would be on digital customers and their implications to different consumer-facing industries, from the lens of incumbent corporations.
This offering provides an overview and analysis of financial decision-making within the corporate setting. Various facets of financial management are tackled from both theoretical and applied perspectives. Key topic areas include capital budgeting, the concept of risk and expected returns, valuation of stocks and bonds, capital structure theory and its applications, cost of capital, corporate dividend policy, working capital management and equity fund-raising methods.
Most of the technology ventures fail within the first three years of their establishments with lacks of financial resources being one of key failure factors. As only limited financial resources are available to start-ups, a good financing strategy will optimize the survival of techventures. This course will consider particularly the Asian investment community as it operates differently from the West, and will concentrate on the views of Asian investors in terms of the development and investment viability of ventures.
After taking this course, students are expected to have a thorough understanding on several key issues such as sources of financing, execution path and hurdles, investment teaser/proposal, due diligence, and other issues that are directly related to the financing of technology ventures. By closely examined the financing strategies of some existing ventures, students are expected to obtain first-hand technology commercialization knowledge from business angels and venture capitalists.
This course targets to train up students to derive and develop financial and managerial insights from technology, design innovative solutions to meet financial service needs, optimize financial decisions in complex business environment, and understand and analyze the social, economic, security, and legal impacts from their solutions.
Total number and value of global fintech investments increased from the 3,764 and US$125 billion in 2020, to an astonishing 5,684 and US$210 billion in 2021, according to KPMG. While growth of this sector is clouded by a potential slow-down of global economy, the more expensive financing costs from interest rate hikes, and more stringent regulations around digital assets, the trend of digitalization and digitization of the financial services will continue to grow at non-linear pace globally. The open innovation between non-financial industries and fintech innovators are generating exponential opportunities for those with an entrepreneurial passion.
What are the latest fintech trends and how do innovators, entrepreneurs, incumbents, investors, and other stakeholders see the space developing? What are the technologies that will reshape the industry in the next decade and how to monetize them? Beyond the general trends, how do fintech intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs identify the opportunities and build successful fintech products? By orchestrating cutting-edge research, endto- end industry knowledge, and global expertise in fintech and entrepreneurship execution, this course will provide a strong foundation for those who are interested in innovating, starting, or investing in financial technologies.
The purpose of this course is to provide a comprehensive introduction to fundamental analysis of securities. The materials covered will help students to become familiar with a variety of financial instruments traded in the equity and fixed-income markets, to understand the theoretical foundation for, and practical implementation of, widely used asset pricing theories, and to develop essential skills needed to succeed as an investment professional.
Application Deadlines for the 2025 Intake
- 31 October 2024 (1st round)
- 15 December 2024 (2nd round)
- 31 January 2025 (3rd round)
- 15 March 2025 (4th round)
- 30 April 2025 (5th round)
*Applications submitted after 30 April 2025 will be processed on a rolling basis until all places have been filled.
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