The Comparative Study On The EMBA Education In China And America

EMBA Education was created by the Business School of Chicago University in 1943, it is a model of management education whose goal is cultivating senior managers for enterprises. As the economic development, the higher management education has a great drive, after decades of years of searching, it becomes a need for the economic development as well as the need for a great deal of talents of senior business managers in enterprises, making a great development for the social economic development. EMBA educational goal, criteria of enrollment, design of curriculum, methods of teaching and learning, etc, are quite different from those of the traditional theoretical model of postgraduate education.The EMBA education in China is borrowed from the abroad, meanwhile it was developed in the base of our MBA education, comparing with education of other forms and EMBA education abroad ,it has some distance. The senior managers are eager to learn the new management knowledge to improve their administration ability. Therefore the EMBA education in China meets a good environment, taking on a hard mission as well. So not only does the postgraduate education need to pay attention to development the quantity of EMBA education but also have to take effective measures to enhance our characteristic of EMBA education and cultivate high quality talents of EMBA.This study firstly makes some definitions of several concepts relevant to EMBA education, then reviews the history of EMBA education of the origin, development and the recent trend of EMBA education to understand the cause and effects of EMBA education. Owing to the EMBA education is from the foreign ,the author selects three excellent business schools in America and analyzes their successful experience of running the EMBA/MBA education, explores the characteristics of each school, summarizes the features of mode of EMBA or EDP of the upper business schools in the world.Following by the introduction of the concept of EMBA education and its background in China. The author discusses the importance of developing EMB to China. Because of the importance of the curriculum in the cultivating of EMBA education, the author use one whole chapter to explore the curriculum design in some famous business school in America, summarizes the regularity and parallels to the curriculum design in China. Finally the author puts forward some problems and countermeasures to the EMBA education in China which will do some benefit to the EMBA education development in the future, and draws the conclusion that the EDP program will be a great trend in the future of EMBA education , which is the bridge covers from the theories in university and the social practice and one of the branch in the life-long learning in the future.