Curriculum Structure
The CEIBS Finance MBA (FMBA) Programme is CEIBS' first Shanghai-based part-time Finance MBA programme with a finance focus. Featuring financial depth, managerial breadth and technological acumen, the programme develops future leaders with a broad global vision, systematic business knowledge, exceptional strategic decision-making and leadership capabilities, and the ability to apply technology to financial and management practice.
The CEIBS FMBA "Finance × Management × Technology" curriculum treats the three dimensions as an organic whole — both the starting point and the ultimate destination of learning — and integrates them so that they reinforce one another. The two specialised tracks help students further develop a technology-driven mindset and systematically strengthen their leadership, enabling them to drive change and innovation in the integration of finance and industry. An integrative way of thinking runs through the entire curriculum, which is designed to cultivate versatile leaders truly prepared for the competition of the future.
New specialized tracks: Technology and Leadership
Starting with the Class of 2025, the FMBA Programme will introduce two new specializations: Technology and Leadership. Each track combines compulsory and elective courses, allowing students to tailor their learning to their career aspirations.
Technology Specialization
This track cultivates a tech-driven mindset, helping students understand and apply emerging technologies—including fintech, AI, big data, and blockchain—across industries. Students will identify tech-driven business opportunities and explore innovative, tech-enabled business models.
Leadership Specialization
Building on our Leadership Journey, this track enhances students’ leadership capabilities. Through structured self-assessment, students will identify their strengths and weaknesses while developing execution, inspiration, and motivational skills. These competencies prepare them to lead teams, drive change, address challenges, and achieve organizational goals.
This two-year programme shapes students into well-rounded leaders with a strong foundation in finance, strategic management expertise, and the ability to embrace technological innovation.
Compulsory Courses
Core Module
Group Project
The Group Project is an integral part of the curriculum. In Group Project you will apply management theories and framework learned in the classroom to real-world business issues. You will work in a small group to complete a project over a one-year period. This project will include attending an introductory lecture, topic selection, outlining your proposal, writing and revising your report, and giving an oral defence.
Elective Courses
Finance-oriented Electives
Leadership Excellence
Frontier Thinking
Overseas Module
CEIBS FMBA overseas elective courses range from 3 to 5 days depending on the destination's distance. Each program is built around a theme tailored to the host location's industry strengths, blending lectures at top business schools, visits to representative companies, and sharing sessions with senior industry executives — taking students straight to the front lines of global business.
USA · New York Module
Hong Kong, China Module
Africa · Kenya Module
*Overseas electives require separate registration; fees are not included in tuition.
*A limited number of seats are open to CEIBS FMBA alumni.
Cross course elective courses
Gobi Leadership
Three Wave Strategy: How to Achieve Sustainable and Profitable Growth
Efficient Leadership: from Chinese Cultural Perspectives
Contradiction Management and Integrated Thinking
Marketing in the Digital Age: New Thinking on Consumer Transformation and Customer Operations
Industrial Internet Platformization Strategy - Methodology of Industry Rework
Industrial Development and Competition Analysis
Brand Strategy in the Digital Age
We actively promote integrated learning across programs. While priority for finance-related electives is given to FMBA students, these courses are also open to students from other CEIBS degree programs. Conversely, FMBA students may select electives offered by other programs, subject to availability.
Leadership Journey
Leadership cultivation is a deep and continuous process that requires transcending theoretical learning and gradually building through daily practice and reflection. The leadership journey of FMBA progresses gradually, using techniques to guide students on a path of self-awareness, practical skills, reflection, and unleashing potential in leadership cultivation. It encourages students to continuously improve and form a spiral upward trajectory of leadership growth.
The above courses are for reference only, please refer to the actual schedule.
