The MBA Program of SEM holds an opening ceremony after the collective ceremony of the school to welcome over 400 new MBA students.

MBA students on the ceremony

On the ceremony, Professor QIAN Yingyi, Dean of Tsinghua SEM, delivered a speech. He said, 2010 is the twentieth year of China’s MBA education. The School welcomes the 2010 MBA students with a long-prepared new MBA curriculum, which aims to “nurture future leaders with comprehensive management capabilities,” and expands the stress of “knowledge” in the old curriculum to “being” (personal integrity), “knowledge,” and “doing” (practical experience) as a whole.

Dean QIAN Yingyi welcoming MBA students at the ceremony

The new curriculum of Tsinghua MBA sets as its goals the balances between knowledge, moral integrity and capabilities; academic rigor and practical applicability; as well as China roots and global vision.

Alan F. White, Senior Associate Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, sent his congratulations via the internet to greet students in the IMBA program that is co-held by SEM and MIT Sloan.

Professor QIAN Xiaojun of the Department of Management Science and Engineering talked on behalf of the faculty of SEM. She encouraged students to learn from case studies, to actively build soft skills, to explore and improve the new MBA curriculum with the School, as well as to keep pursuing higher moral standards.

Professor QIAN Xiaojun delivering speech

REN Yue talking as a student representative

REN Yue, a 2010 MBA student, talked as the student representative.

At the end of the ceremony, an orientation session was formally initiated as a tradition of the MBA Program.

Faculty and staff initiating the orientation session