On October 13, the Financial Times (FT) officially released the 2025 Global EMBA Top 100 rankings, with China Europe International Business School's (CEIBS) Global EMBA program securing second place globally. This achievement marks the program's sixth consecutive year in the global top two and fourth consecutive year as the world's number one independent EMBA program. Unlike many domestic institutions that adopt joint program models, CEIBS has achieved sustained leadership in global EMBA education through independent operation, demonstrating the school's profound accumulation over thirty years of operation and extraordinary strength on the international management education stage.
CEIBS Global EMBA, launched in 1995, was mainland China's first English-taught EMBA program. As the program celebrates its 30th anniversary, this outstanding achievement once again highlights its position as a global leader in executive education and pioneer in Chinese management education.
**Six Dimensions Showcasing Chinese Management Wisdom on the World Stage**
As an international business school jointly established by the Chinese government and the European Union, CEIBS continuously benchmarks against world-class standards and aligns with international criteria, constantly self-reflecting and improving. In 2001, CEIBS became the first business school in mainland China to participate in FT's global EMBA rankings. Over more than 20 years, the school's ranking has steadily climbed, with global influence and brand reputation continuously increasing. While successfully creating a prominent Chinese brand in the global management education community, it has also driven improvements in domestic management education standards, establishing a benchmark for Chinese management wisdom to reach the world stage.
Wang Hong, President of CEIBS, emphasized: "This outstanding performance fully demonstrates the foresight and vitality of CEIBS's strategic positioning of 'China Depth, Global Breadth,' and profoundly interprets the contemporary meaning and enduring value of our school motto 'Conscientiousness, Innovation, and Excellence.' Facing the complex evolution of the current global situation, rapid socio-economic changes, and the vigorous development of new technologies such as AI, CEIBS will continue to deepen and lead management education transformation, maintain integrity while innovating and pursuing excellence, cultivating more leaders who possess both China depth and global breadth while actively assuming social responsibility, and steadfastly building 'the world's most respected international business school,' contributing more CEIBS wisdom and strength to promoting the integration and mutual learning of Chinese and global business civilizations for common prosperity."
**Global Resources Drive Student Salary Growth and Satisfaction**
Currently, with persistent economic volatility, rapidly changing business environments, and surging technological waves bringing enormous impact to enterprises and entrepreneurs, higher expectations and requirements are placed on the creation and innovation of management knowledge. CEIBS Global EMBA consistently focuses closely on social development needs, closely follows global trend evolution, and based on international cutting-edge educational concepts and extending from China's local business practices, helps students systematically learn business cognition and logic while comprehensively enhancing strategic thinking and management capabilities. Through globalized, diversified student composition and overseas module settings, as well as leadership development throughout the program, enterprises and entrepreneurs can seize opportunities, navigate cycles, and become pillars driving business civilization progress and socio-economic prosperity.
This mission has translated into measurable outstanding results, serving as powerful evidence of the program's value: In the core indicator of "salary increase" related to students' career returns, CEIBS achieved a leap from seventh to third globally, confirming the program's tremendous boost to alumni career development. Meanwhile, the "overall satisfaction" score representing alumni's endorsement of the program jumped from 21st globally in 2024 to 2nd globally in 2025. Although this indicator is not included in the ranking calculation system, it powerfully supports the success of the program's strategy and design, reflecting global alumni's high recognition of CEIBS Global EMBA program quality and learning experience.
Dominique Turpin, President (European side) of CEIBS, stated: "CEIBS's international DNA and the Global EMBA's international operation model are important reasons for the program's success. CEIBS consistently adheres to the path of international education, building an international faculty team, cultivating international management talent, and creating a platform connecting China with Europe and the world. CEIBS Global EMBA cooperates extensively with top global business schools and dedicates effort to creating overseas modules spanning five continents, constructing a highly diversified student body and alumni network, enabling students to grow into global leaders who are well-versed in the Chinese market while possessing international vision and cross-cultural management capabilities. In this process, Global EMBA has also become one of the most internationally influential executive education programs globally."
CEIBS Global EMBA's positioning is "a bridge connecting China and the world." Through more than 20 overseas immersion programs spanning five continents and exchange cooperation with eight top business schools in 10 countries, the program enables students to enter real and complex global environments, honing the cross-cultural leadership necessary for Chinese enterprises going global. Meanwhile, the "China Depth" series of immersion programs focus on China's cutting-edge industries and benchmark enterprises, using a dual-scenario learning model of "classroom + enterprise" to enable global managers to more deeply feel the pulse of the Chinese market and establish localized wisdom. Through bidirectional empowerment, it helps promote economic and cultural exchanges between China and the world and global business ecosystem integration.
**Master Faculty: Gathering 120+ Global Renowned Teachers to Build Academic Heights**
Pu Fangke, Vice President and Provost of CEIBS, pointed out: "This achievement fully demonstrates the school's profound accumulation in faculty construction and academic research. A globalized, high-impact faculty team is an important reason many students choose CEIBS and the secret to CEIBS's ability to cultivate numerous outstanding management talents. They combine teaching and research, emphasizing both academics and practice, continuously expanding the boundaries of management knowledge through rigorous research while integrating profound theory with vibrant local practice, endowing students with wisdom that unifies knowledge and action, helping students grow into transformers and leaders who possess both business wisdom and social responsibility, injecting inexhaustible talent resources for high-quality socio-economic development."
CEIBS's world-class faculty team provides important support for the outstanding performance of the CEIBS Global EMBA program. Currently, the school has built a faculty team of 120 internationally renowned scholars from more than 20 countries and regions. In FT business school rankings, CEIBS faculty's internationalization level has ranked at the forefront for consecutive years. In the "China Highly Cited Researchers" list, CEIBS professors have topped domestic business schools in the "Business Administration" field for consecutive years. In the "2025 Global Top 2% Scientists" list, seven CEIBS professors are also listed. The school continuously gathers renowned teachers from global cutting-edge fields, creating a thriving diversified curriculum system, providing solid talent support for socio-economic development and business civilization progress.
**Alumni Network: 33,000 Elite Alumni Forming a Development Community**
Zhu Tian, Vice President and Chinese Provost of CEIBS, stated: "This achievement belongs to all CEIBS alumni and stems from the powerful strength of the alumni network. Every alumnus is a 'spokesperson' for the CEIBS spirit globally. It is precisely the continuous improvement and outstanding achievements of CEIBS alumni on their career paths that provide the most vivid footnote to the program's global reputation; and it is precisely the alumni's deep recognition and support for the school that builds the most solid foundation of the CEIBS community. More than 33,000 alumni from 91 countries and regions worldwide have woven a tight alumni network, becoming the backbone driving the integrated development of China and the world, using actual actions to interpret the profound meaning of the 'school-alumni development community.'"
As Asia's largest international EMBA program, CEIBS Global EMBA annually brings together approximately 100 executives and entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds, with over 40% being international students and nearly one-third residing overseas, forming a truly active global learning community. Classmates share resources and co-create opportunities, truly achieving the network effect of "connecting globally, empowering each other." The value of this network is powerfully confirmed in the rankings: the "alumni network" indicator jumped from 18th to 8th position, indicating that the CEIBS alumni network is a global community with high cohesion and mutual value; the "work experience" indicator also improved from 9th to 5th position, reflecting the program's strong attraction to the world's most senior managers. CEIBS's mission is not limited to providing a transformative learning journey but lies in building a lifelong platform supporting career development and personal growth.
Rui Bolan, Associate Provost of CEIBS and Director of CEIBS Global EMBA Program, stated: "This is not only an honor but also high recognition of our continuous mission practice. Facing the complex and changing business environment, CEIBS Global EMBA consistently systematically integrates academic frontiers with business practice, comprehensively enhances student leadership, and advocates sustainable development and responsible management concepts. We believe that future managers need not only leadership but also responsibility, empathy, and agility, courageously facing unprecedented formidable challenges to lead enterprises to flourish. CEIBS Global EMBA will continue to forge ahead and innovate, cultivating more outstanding leaders who can lead the future and contribute to society."
This ranking not only highlights CEIBS Global EMBA's leading position in the global management education community but also establishes a milestone for the program's 30 years of inheritance and breakthrough. This serves as both a perfect footnote to the program's 30-year educational journey and a new starting point toward the future. Looking ahead, the CEIBS Global EMBA program will continue to create value for global leaders, continuously deepen dialogue and exchange between China and the world, consolidate its leading position in the first tier of global management education, and steadfastly advance toward CEIBS's vision of becoming the world's most respected international business school.
**About CEIBS Global EMBA**
The CEIBS Global EMBA program was established in 1995. As mainland China's first English-taught EMBA program, CEIBS Global EMBA is based on international cutting-edge educational concepts and extends from China's local business practices, helping students systematically learn business cognition and logic while comprehensively enhancing their strategic thinking and management capabilities. Through diversified student composition and overseas module settings, as well as leadership experience and acquisition throughout the program, the Global EMBA program is committed to cultivating global leaders who are well-versed in the Chinese market while possessing international vision and cross-cultural management capabilities. To date, CEIBS Global EMBA program graduates total over 2,400, with many students developing into outstanding senior management talent, making excellent contributions to China's reform and opening-up and economic development. Notably, in recent years, with the globalization development of Chinese enterprises, the CEIBS Global EMBA program has continuously supplied high-end talent with global management capabilities to Chinese private enterprises.
**About China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)**
China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) was jointly established by the Chinese government and the European Union in 1994, with Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) as the founding institutions from both sides. The school has campuses in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Zurich, Switzerland, and Accra, Ghana. The school is committed to cultivating business leaders who possess both China depth and global breadth while actively assuming social responsibility, and has become an important platform for exchange and cooperation between China, Europe, and the world. CEIBS offers full-time English MBA, part-time MBA, Finance MBA (FMBA), Global Master in Management (Global MiM), EMBA, Global EMBA (GEMBA), HEMBA, Doctor of Business Administration (DBA), PhD, and Executive Education (EE) programs. CEIBS MBA program has ranked first in Asia for nine consecutive years in rankings, while the Global EMBA program has maintained the global top two for six consecutive years in rankings.
Currently, CEIBS has more than 33,000 alumni from 91 countries and regions worldwide and has provided management training to over 270,000 executives globally.