China is one of the largest markets in the world and one of the fastest growing economies
there are huge opportunities in china there are projections that in 2028 the chinese
economy will overtake the us but how do we access these opportunities as a foreigner
we have a lot of disadvantages there is so much competition from local chinese people and chinese
companies who are so fast and they understand the local culture much better than afar and i can
they also speak amazing english and chinese it is so competitive in china so how can a
foreigner succeed in this environment foreigners have weaknesses but they also have strengths
and there are definite ways that foreigners can succeed in china now most of the successful
foreigners in china that i know have studied at a chinese university and i did the same thing
myself i studied at peking university beijing language and culture university and more recently
i did the mba boot camp program at china europe international business school i didn't do an mba
but i wish i did do an mba it would have helped me to learn so much in a much shorter period of time
also it's very helpful instead of making mistakes you can learn everything in advance there are
three reasons why studying at chinese university can help to fast track your success in china the
first is it's an environment where you can spend your time to learn chinese secondly you can make
connections with alumni and thirdly it's also very good to understand china much more deeply
and spend some time to understand china it can also help you if you've studied at the university
to get a job in china guanxi in china is the way of relationships and building connections with
other people and it's very important in business in china when you're studying in university
you will be able to get access to this huge network of alumni and fellow students and you
can learn from them build connections that will be very helpful for your future i studied at peking
university and this was so helpful for me to build the connections and i'm still in contact
with many people who have studied with it's also very helpful when you meet new people who may have
studied at that university and they can it can really help the relationship it's very helpful if
you want to find a job if you want any advice or any help it's such a good way to make connections
and build that relationship network in china which is very hard and most foreigners do not have that
before they come it also gives you a time where you can find opportunities within this network
if you want to understand china there's basically two ways you can do it one is you can learn from
your own experience the second is you can learn from other people's experience the second one is
much faster if you are on an mba program you will be able to learn so much information in such a
short period of time it will give you basically the toolkit that you need to succeed in china
and it does it in a very good way which is using case studies and theory and putting it
into practice now i knew what a case study was but before i was actually on the mba bootcamp program
i didn't really understand it for myself and i saw how useful this could be in learning how to
succeed in a business environment in a case study you will look at a specific scenario in a business
where you will be in a group with your peers and you will discuss this scenario for example
hiring someone or in a strategy situation in a business school you will go through all of
these different scenarios and it means you can learn so much faster than if you're doing it
yourself so when you go out into the real world you'll look at all of these different problems
and you have this huge arsenal of different scenarios that you've discussed refined with other
people and you can use this skill set to apply to business and that's why it can be so powerful
it's not just learning theory it's applying it in practice and that's why it's so valuable
learning chinese is so important in china because it can help you to communicate with chinese people
and it's also a way that you can understand the culture much more deeply it's very smart if you
can spend some time to learn chinese at the start of your career or if you want to engage
in business in china it would be so helpful when you're communicating with chinese people
they will feel flattered that you can speak the language and it shows that you're serious about
china and communicating with china and they really like that in china they really appreciate that
they will also give you a lot of encouragement many people will say wow your chinese is so good
after you just say nihao or some basic comment and actually there's a saying that when you stop
receiving these comments saying wow you're chinese is really good and people start just
replying normally that's when your chinese is really really good many of the opportunities in
china will come from random discussions that you will have in chinese that's why it's so helpful to
be able to speak chinese and it can give you huge opportunities in jobs or business deals if you can
speak some chinese and there's many companies who will look at your chinese level before hiring you
if you can also speak hsk5 it will definitely help you to get a work visa when you apply
for a work visa some companies also have this requirement for a certain hsk level
what programs and what universities can you study that will give you this huge advantage there are
so many programs in china in english and you can also study chinese programs i'm going to introduce
some of the mba programs but before you think ah an mba is really expensive i don't know if
i want to spend my money to do an mba the cost of studying an mba is much cheaper than in the west
and there are also a lot of scholarships so what are the best mba programs in china
i'm going to start with beijing there are four different mba programs that are really high ranked
peking university has two guanghua school of management and bimba programme by the national
school of development which also has a part-time mba program and a full-time mba program tsinghua
university has the mit global mba ckgsb cheung kong graduate school of business
and in shanghai we have full fudan university mba they also have a fmba program you don't need
to have finance background to apply shanghai jiaotong university has antai mba programme
and china europe international business school in shanghai you can also look at zhejiang university
international business school these are all of top ranked universities and i'll give you the
link in the description below we also have a video with more information about these mba programs and
i'll share the link here so if you want to study a chinese program you can look at the top ranked
universities in china and those are going to be great for you to build the network and have
the most talented people in china so you can look at peking university tsinghua zhejiang
shanghai jiaotong full down as examples of some of the top ranked universities but if you have a
very clear idea about what industry you want to go into what job or what career you want to go into
you can consider a specialized university for that career for example if you want to go into
law you can study at one of the law universities that way you will be surrounded by people in that
industry it's going to definitely help you with connections you're also going to have
connections with the professors if you want to go into media you can look at communications
university of china or beijing film academy which is going to be surrounded by future film stars and
people working in the film industry there's going to be a lot of connections there if you
want to go into finance you can look at zhejiang university international business school which is
very specialized in finance or fudan fanhai international school of finance as examples
if you want to be a diplomat you can consider beijing foreign studies university which is
where many of the diplomats have studied and you also have great connections of people who work
in the foreign office in the future and there are many different examples of different programs and
different universities that specialize in these areas so you can have a look there if you'd like
more help or more information about the programs check out china admissions which is a free online
platform for international students to search all of the programs in china and apply online for free
you can also join events and get free advice and join wechat groups where you can ask more
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