Program Introduction
MBA curriculum that is comprehensive in learning content and versatile in pedagogical modality. Currency of knowledge, best practices and immersion of multiple perspectives are our forte. A flexible and supportive learning ecosystem enables you to balance work, life, and your MBA studies. Whether you are an executive, an aspiring leader, or an entrepreneur, our programs are tailored to meet your needs for growth.
The Global Executive Track (GET) program delivers residential every-other-weekend classes in Shanghai, mostly on the beautiful downtown campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. It is a year-long degree program with bilingual instruction. Upon completion of the program, GET students and alumni have the complimentary option to continue on with up to two years of our executive lecture series. SU Global MBA is a 13-month online-merge-offline (OMO) degree program. Both GET and SU Global MBA are open to Mandarin-speaking professionals worldwide.
Who We Serve ?
This program is designed for students already in an advanced leadership role. They are accomplished executives and entrepreneurs who have decided to return to the classroom to both grow and benefit from networking with other highly successful leaders from diverse industries. Students move through the program as a cohort, and they are encouraged to participate in enrichment and networking events provided throughout the program. Both peer learning and social activities help students to form deep connections and lifelong friendships that they can continue to tap throughout their careers.
What We Do ?
SU GET-MBA Curriculum
Begin With An Engaging Executive Bootcamp
Module Size: 6 Credits
EXECUTIVE BOOTCAMP – The curriculum starts with six credit hours of bootcamp to bridge the gap between practices and learning. We merge key fundamentals and business applications, creating knowledge that is relevant to your professional context. You will leave the bootcamp with a clear understanding of market systems, institutions, and key analytical methods essential for business decision-making. Bootcamp also kick starts networking and teamwork as you begin to build the skill set needed for leadership. You will meet fellow students from the same cohort and begin to form teams. Strong peer learning and lasting relationships can be developed.
Core Curriculum Built To Develop Expertise and Inspire Success
The epicenter of the curriculum — a business core and a functional core — builds your expertise in general management.
Business Core
Module Size: 9 Credits
The business core serves to provide tactical knowledge and applications in organizational leadership and marketing. You will learn the practical models and qualitative insights needed for managerial decision-making as well as effective ways to organize operations to better meet market demand. A group simulation game helps accentuate these issues and provides the class with realistic and comprehensive learning experiences. You’ll also learn to apply essential tools and theories to marketing decisions like branding, product development and promotion, communications, distribution, and pricing. Using a matrix of key factors, you will develop and assess effective management and strategy for marketing. An information management course with a focus in business analytics further equips you with powerful insights about a wide spectrum of managerial issues — operations, marketing, finance, healthcare and more.
Core Curriculum Built To Develop Expertise and Inspire Success
The epicenter of the curriculum — a business core and a functional core — builds your expertise in general management.
Functional Core
Module Size: 9 Credits
The functional core serves to strengthen the skill set in analytical and quantitative concepts that provides critical insight to decision-making in a variety of managerial functions. You will be empowered with the capability to assess accounting information and incorporate it into planning, decision-making and control. You will learn about discounted cash flow techniques, capital budgeting and valuation, investment decisions, capital asset pricing, and options. You’ll also analyze corporate financial policy, including capital structure and cost, financing, dividend policy, and M&As. In addition, you will acquire know-how on designing and operating productive systems as well as managing the flow of information, products, and services in a supply chain network. Our extensive use of case studies enhances your understanding by providing realistic examples for classroom discussion and analysis.
Explore Multiple Perspectives: The Making of a Sustainable Strategy
Module Size: 9 Credits
sustainable decision-making. You will become familiar with important legal and ethical challenges you may face as a business leader as well as issues like sustainability and social responsibility. You will also understand the strategic role played by HRBP in supporting business goals.
Successful management in today’s global business environment requires leaders to tap into additional insights drawn from economics, cultural literacy and political economy. You will study the workings of international macroeconomic markets, the impacts of government policies, and additional issues concerning the MNCs. You will also learn about different international regimes and cultures, starting with the United States, and understand how those factors help shape business practices and strategies. Aside from learning about business in the global economy, you will analyze the Chinese economy. Knowing China’s recent economic development, policy initiatives and business experiences will enable you to investigate and assess this market’s niche and outlook.
Become A Transformative Global Leader
This 3-credit integrative global management course is the program’s capstone. The objectives are twofold: i) to build expertise that transcends industries, generations, borders, and cultures, and ii) to incubate ideas and strategies that transform business practices. Harnessing a broad spectrum of knowledge acquired throughout the program, you are empowered with the complete skill set to assess a business entity’s competitive position, challenges and opportunities. Using an integrative approach, you will design and evaluate strategies that effectively address critical issues facing a company in the global marketplace.
Global Immersion Seminar
A successful global executive is one who can effectively demonstrate expertise and execute decisions in a global setting — a task that requires a global perspective. To support our commitment to foster global perspectives, the program includes a week-long global immersion program that brings students from Shanghai to the U.S. You will take classes with classmates and faculty, engage in cross-cultural conversations, and share ideas with community stakeholders. Business site visits with executive seminars as well as cultural events are part of the immersion experience as well.
GET-MBA Class Schedule
GET-MBA Class Day
Below is a typical meeting day for the GET-MBA class. The day typically starts at 9am with several breaks in between, and ends around 5pm. Group discussion usually takes place during the working lunch hour.
About Shenandoah University
Established in 1875, Shenandoah University is a Virginia top-tier private national university in rankings included in U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 Best Colleges edition. Shenandoah, with a main campus located just 75 miles west of the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission to award baccalaureate, master’s and doctorate degrees. With approximately 4,000 students enrolled in more than 150 programs of study, seven schools, and six locations throughout Northern Virginia, the university educates and inspires individuals to be critical, reflective thinkers, lifelong learners and ethical compassionate citizens who are committed to making responsible contributions within a community, a nation and the world.
The university comprises the following schools and colleges:
- College of Arts and Sciences
- School of Business
- Eleanor Wade Custer School of Nursing
- Shenandoah Conservatory
- Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy
- School of Health Professions
About the School of Business
Shenandoah University’s School of Business is an AACSB International-accredited business school. The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation is the oldest and most recognized in the world, and it has been synonymous with the highest standards of excellence since 1916. Fewer than 5 % of universities in the world have obtained this accolade. The mission of the School of Business is to educate successful, principled leaders with a global perspective. Hallmarks of the business school include its caring and academically accomplished faculty and its wealth of real-world experiences. The School of Business offers the following programs: Bachelor’s in Business Administration (BBA); BBA to MBA fast track; MBA; Doctor of Pharmacy with MBA (PharmD/MBA); as well as the MBA Essentials Certificate and the Graduate Certificate in Health Care Management. The Byrd School also boasts an executive-in-residence and an entrepreneur in-residence, as well as the Leadership and Mentoring Program (LAMP), which creates platforms for students’ professional growth and merges theoretical constructs with business and industry.
Notable people who have graduated from or attended Shenandoah
Justin Wright
Global Head of Innovation, Novartis
Risa Imai Cox
Kaizen Institute
John Milleson,
President and CEO of Bank of Clarke County
Carl Tanner
Operatic tenor
Chris Collins
Virginia House of Delegates member (29th District)
Wendy Gooditis
Virginia House of Delegates member (10th District)
J. Robert Spencer, Kathy Voytko, Laura Woyasz, Peter J. Herber, Aaron Galligan-Stierle, Richard F. Costa, Garrett Elise Long, and Jessie Hooker Bailey
Broadway performers past and present
About Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) was founded in 1896. As one of the higher education institutions which enjoy a long history and a world-renowned reputation in China, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), is a key university directly under the administration of the Ministry of Education (MOE) of the People’s Republic of China and co-constructed by MOE and Shanghai Municipal Government.
It is among the first universities of the“211 project” and the “985 project”. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) was ever regarded as the “Oriental MIT” during 1940s, and now is ranked“ Top 4” in China since 2006. Through unremitting efforts for nearly 120 years, SJTU has become a comprehensive, research-oriented, and internationalized top university in China.
While there is no official agreement between the two institutions, Shenandoah University does hire outstanding professors from Shanghai Jiao Tong University to teach alongside its faculty in the GET-MBA program.
Realize Your Dreams at Shenandoah
GET Vs. SU Global MBA
SU Global Vs. GET MBA: Choose the right program to meet your needs
Program | Global Executive Track | SU Global |
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Total Credit Hours | 36 | 36 |
Degree Program Study Length | 12 Months | 13 Months |
Modality | Face-to-Face | OMO |
Location | Shanghai | Base in Shanghai |
Average Work Experience | 12.8 years | 5 years (minimum) |
Global Leadership Electives | Available and Complementary | Yes |
Global Leadership Certificate | Yes | No |
Networking Opportunities | Yes | Yes |
Experiential Learning & Site Visits | Yes | Yes |
Gland Executive Tour | Yes | Yes |
Seminar at SU (United States) | Yes | Yes |
Scholarship | Yes | No |
Financial Aid | Yes | No |
Graduation Commencement | Yes | Yes |
Tuition | Please Contact Our Office | Please Contact Our Office |
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SU Main Office 雪兰多官方办公室
项目总联络人: Ms. Yudi Chu(褚老师)
Program Specialist
Office of Global Initiatives
Shenandoah University
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Winchester, Virginia, USA 22601
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