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New master’s 
program promotes 
global collaboration

Program connects 
business, engineering 

students through 
partnership with 

universities in China 

By ALEX JUNTTI

Daily Staff Reporter

The Stephen M. Ross School 

of Business has partnered with 
Shanghai Jiao Tong Universi-
ty, one of China’s leading uni-
versities, and the University’s 
SJTU Joint Institute to initi-
ate a Master of Management 
program. The program will be 
for Joint Institute engineer-
ing students, and will provide 
a basis for faculty research 
and collaboration between the 
Business School and the SJTU 
Antai College of Economics 
and Management.

The Joint Institute was 

founded in 2006 and repre-
sents a strategic global part-
nership between China and 
the United States. Its primary 
mission is to establish a highly 
reputable institute for innova-
tive global engineering educa-
tion and research.

The program currently sup-

ports more than 1,000 under-
graduates, most of whom are 
Chinese, 
studying 
comput-

er, mechanical and electri-
cal engineering in Shanghai. 
More than 20 full-time faculty 
members teach all of the avail-
able courses in English.

Launched in 2014, Master 

of Management Program at 
the Business School is meant 
to provide students who have 
little undergraduate business 
experience with a firm under-
standing of business strategy 
and concepts.

The Master of Management 

program for the Joint Insti-

tute’s 
engineering 
students 

will begin in July. Students 
will study business concepts 
in China before arriving in 
Ann Arbor in the fall for nine 
months of study at the Busi-
ness School.

In 
May, 
students 
will 

return to China, where they 
will conclude their program 
by completing a seven-week, 
action-based 
learning 
cap-

stone project led by Busi-
ness School faculty in which 
students work on real world 
projects with multinational 
corporation based in China.

Liz Muller, the director of 

global initiatives for the Ross 
School of Business, said the 
interdisciplinary 
nature 
of 

the program is perfect for stu-
dents looking to add relevant 
business experience to an 
already impressive degree.

“A lot of engineers go into 

strict engineering and as they 
progress through their career, 
they need management skills 
to really take that next step 
into business and industry,” 
Muller said. “We see one of 
our best opportunities for 
collaboration in China being 
not only cross-culturally but 
cross-disciplinary, so we’re 
really interested in the inter-
section of business and engi-
neering or business and health 
for example.”

M.S. Krishnan, associate 

dean for global initiatives at 
the Business School, said the 
partnership not only benefits 
students by providing them 
with a diverse, global educa-
tion, but is also advantageous 
to numerous faculty mem-
bers because it provides new 
opportunities for business col-
laboration and research.

“We are trying to open up 

a platform for our faculty to 
visit China and to these com-
panies so we can understand 

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