About Admission Qualifications
1. What sort of qualifications must I hold to successfully apply to the Cheung Kong EMBA program?
A: You must hold a bachelor's degree or above and have had a minimum of eight years' working experience, including a minimum of five years' experience in general management and leadership positions.
2. I hold a diploma from a three-year college (or equivalent) as well as a Master's degree, but I don't have a certificate of the education for Master's degree. Can I still apply for the Cheung Kong EMBA program?
A: Yes, you can. But you are required to have passed the state-level unified examination for Master's degree and your Master's degree must be one recognized by the PRC Ministry of Education.
3. Do the admission qualifications for international applicants vary from those for domestic applicants?
A: They are the same.
About the Procedures
4. I am interested in the Cheung Kong EMBA program. How should I apply?
A: You need to go through both the preliminary application and formal application process.
Preliminary Application
- Log on our website, choose EMBA/Admission/Fill out a Preliminary Application Form, and complete online.(Fill out a Preliminary Application Form)
- Log on our website, choose EMBA / Admission / Download a Preliminary Application Form, fill it out and mail or fax it to the Cheung Kong EMBA Admissions Office.(Download a Preliminary Application Form)
- Contact the Admissions Office and get the Form via mail or fax, fill it out and mail or fax it to the Cheung Kong EMBA Admissions Office. The office will keep all the information submitted confidential.
Formal Application
- After the Cheung Kong EMBA Admissions Office receives and reviews the preliminary application, it will send a Formal Application Form to those qualified applicants according to their choices, or it will inform the qualified applicants of the password to download the Formal Application Form.
- A Formal Application form must be completed honestly and returned to the Cheung Kong GSB Admissions Office.
- The Cheung Kong EMBA program will keep all the information submitted confidential. The information in the application forms will be used only for the review process and the forms of the admitted students will be collected as the permanent student profile.
5. Why can't I view the downloaded file?
A: Please Download Acrobat Reader6.0 software.
6.How will I be informed whether you have received my application?
A: After receiving your on-line application, the Cheung Kong EMBA Admissions Office will inform you via the contact information you gave in your application materials.
7. Apart from the Formal Application Form, do I need to send in photocopies of my certificates of education and degrees? What if I have misplaced them?
A: We require all applicants to furnish these certificates. If you have lost any of them, please ask the original issuing school to produce a certificate with a formal stamp on it.
8. Do I need to furnish my academic record at college? What if I don't have it?
A: We require all applicants to furnish the academic record at college. If you don't have it, you must ask the administration office of your alma mater, work unit, or the responsible authority of the HR Exchange Center that preserves your personnel file to produce a certificate with a formal stamp on it.
9. Must I provide two recommendation letters? I myself am the highest officer of my company and thus have no superior officer. Do I still have to provide the first letter?
A: We require all applicants to furnish two recommendation letters. If you have no immediate supervisor, you may ask a person who has had a strong impact on your career in the past to write the first letter. Please download the template for this person to write the letter.
About Admission Examination
10. What kind of Admission Examination does the Cheung Kong EMBA program require?
A: Cheung Kong EMBA examines applicants through a panel interview. The purpose is to observe each applicant's understanding of the topics and his or her viewpoints during the discussion on issues related to business and management so that we can decide if the applicant meets our admission qualifications. The interview consists of a 25 to 30 minute self-introduction for each applicant and a subsequent group discussion among the applicants within the same panel on a specific business topic. We will notify the applicants eligible for the interview of the time and venue of the interview in an Interview Notice.
About Curriculum & Faculty
11. How long is the curriculum? How will the curriculum be arranged?
A: Our 20-month Cheung Kong EMBA program schedule consists of 23 courses. Students spend four days each month (from Thursday through Sunday, inclusive of two weekends) on the courses.
12. If I attend the Cheung Kong EMBA program, what kind of classmates will I have?
A: The first session of the program began in November 2002 with an enrollment of 105 students. 90% of the first cohort were high-level decision-makers in state-owned and private companies as well as MNCs, while the rest were high-profile government officials. They came from various regions and industries, having diverse career paths. Please refer to Typical students for Cheung Kong EMBA. This diversity has led to the enrichment of Cheung Kong EMBA students' learning experience. Moreover, Cheung Kong EMBA attaches great importance to sharing experience and ideas among students, and has facilitated such sharing via effective curriculum schedule and program administration in addition to some ad hoc platforms designed for students to conduct interactive communications.
13. I have left the school for years. Will I be able to adjust to intensive 4-day study?
A: Returning to the campus will require a period of readjustment. However, this is also an opportunity for rejuvenation and networking. Your time in the program will be an experience full of changes and opportunities.
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