Click Here to Read More Alumni Stories 8 years ago, 52 business leaders, who were already very successful in their careers, made a big decision to come to CEIBS to start a reflective study journey. This decision would end up opening up a better career and a better life for the participants. Th…

I’m Paul Walprecht, I grew up in a small village outside of Frankfurt with less than 7000 people. Now I’m in Shanghai, a city of over 24 million people, doing my MBA at CEIBS. Here is my story, one that led me from playing football to working at Bayer and via the cities of the world to Shanghai.…

November 22, 2018. Shanghai -- The MBA Sports Industry Club has a central goal to connect CEIBS students with the sports industry through a series of events that are educational, fun and ideally physically stimulating. This month, we were lucky to have two unique events that met all of our standards…

By Lei Na Compared with New Oriental, another Chinese education giant, Tomorrow Advancing Life (TAL) has a less dramatic, less spectacular, but more interesting growth story. TAL’s origin dates back to 2002 when, as a way to help pay his tuition during his MD/PhD training at the School of Life Sci…

By William Yan “Study hard, make friends, keep your eyes open while keeping your minds focused. CEIBS is going to change your life, as it has changed mine.” On August 8, 2017, at the CEIBS MBA2019 Opening Ceremony, I extended on behalf of MBA2018 a warm welcome to the “future stars” of CEIBS and e…

In November 2017, US-born Carolyn Schneller was taking a well-earned rest away from the hustle and bustle of Shanghai on the golden beaches of Koh Phi Phi in Thailand. Having previously submitted her application to join the MBA class of 2020, Carolyn eagerly awaited news of an interview opportunit…

Investment banker turned import trader Ryan Tambis joined CEIBS annual Summer Pre-MBA Boot Camp for a taster of MBA life in 2017. One year on, he has just completed his first term as an MBA student in Shanghai. Ryan sat down with MBA Admissions to share his takeaways from the boot camp, how he is…

In 2006, high school student Shoko Ogasawara joined a school trip to Beijing. Her lasting memory of the city, which at that time was preparing to host the Olympic Games, was that of a city ‘under construction’. “Everywhere I looked there were cranes and traffic. I could feel the energy and knew Chin…

September 17, 2018. Shanghai – In 2010, three strangers from different parts of India enrolled at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) in southern India. Moving into the same floor of the same dormitory building, the three undergraduate students had zero knowledge that their lives from that day f…