I'm planning to do an exchange program and am interested in these 3 schools. My main goal is to build my network in China. I'm not sure the what differentiate these schools from one another. Can anyone provide me with some insights?
Just as the comment of shely2010, For an exchange program, PKU and Tsinghua would be better choice. You may meet a lot of friends from other departments besides business school,so you may know China deeper. The network would be more abroad.
He just wants to do an exchange program in a busines school in China. So the difference and Chinese features are very important to him.
But if he goes to CEIBS, it's more like business schools in western countries. It's not necessary for him to come to China. He can obtain all the things from his current business school, which may be better than CEIBS if we make use of the so called international standard to appraize a business school.
And it's no doubt that most of the countries' elites graduate from PKU, Tsinghua, even Renmin, Fudan, while CEIBS' gradudates mostly work for foreign companies' branches, which are encountering a declining infulence in Mainland China in fact.
So the best choice for him is going to Guanghua or SEM.
Some local saying about beida and Tsinghua is that they have the first class undergraduate, second class Master student, third class PhD and fourth class faculty.
In my opinion,it's kind of wasting very good resources that you just want to build your local network in the business school. You can also gain a lot besides the local network.
Some local saying about beida and Tsinghua is that they have the first class undergraduate, second class Master student, third class PhD and fourth class faculty.
Another problem with Tsinghua and Beida is that they dont have good faculties with the exception of economics. Many scholars with good research records decided to join CKGSB or CEIBS instead. For example, from Beida, Zhou Chunsheng in Finance went to CKGSB, Dean Xu and Jian Han of Management went to CEIBS. At Tsinghua, Wang Gao joined CEIBS.
The salaries at Tsinghua and beida are regulated by the government and they are paid at about one third of CEIBS. One faculty was paid 50K USD in the public school but immediately got a 150K USD after moving to CEIBS.
If you look at the research records of faculties at Tsinghua and Beida, they are not comparable with those at CEIBS, SAIF or CKGSB in terms of top international journals, especially in areas other than economics. One reason is that due to regulation, Tsinghua/Beida have to pay faculties in all areas the same. For example, in top US business schools faculties are paid twice than the economics faculties. Thus these two schools are having great trouble to attract top business school faculties. They ended up hiring mostly economics faculties or less qualified business faculties
Salary should not be the only tool to appraise a business school in China as China's labor market isn't an integrated one at the current stage. Some of Peking or Tsinghua's MBA graduates choose to work for state-own companies or central goverment insitutions like CSRC, CBRC, the Central Bank, whose salaries are strictly regulated by china goverment. And it's hard to say exactly how the package of their salary is.
Almost all of CEIBS‘ MBA graduates start to work for branches of multinational companies in China. Their salaries are very transparent.
I have to say CEIBS is providing the most prestigious MBA program in China and its graduates mostly work for multinational companies or organizations in Shanghai and Beijing.
But if your goal is to expand your local networking in China, I think the best choice is Guanghua at PKU and SEM in Tsinghua. They are the two business schools with highest reputation over all the mainland China, rather than Shanghai and Beijing. Their alumni are very strong in top state-own companies, top private firms and financial institutions, as well as multinational companies.
If you want to build newtwork in multinational companies, it's not necessary for you to come to China, right? If you go to Guanghua and SEM, you may also build strong relations with those undergraduate, doctors, faculties in China's top 2 universities ,which may be the country's future's elites.