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Academic Cooperation

International/Chinese Academic Cooperation

(with Overseas/Chinese Universities)

The Beginning

Since its founding, Shue Yan has established affiliations and relations with North Amer-
ican universities. With a view to promoting cultural exchange, Shue Yan and Northeast
Louisiana University jointly conducted credit-bearing summer courses in Business Manage-
ment, Accountancy, and Sociology at Shue Yan during 1972-78. Courses in Sociology were
also conducted jointly with the Palm Beach Atlantic College in 1974.
The first trans-Pacific summer course in 1972 was described by the South China Morn-
ing Post as “a great success”, and elicited favourable comments from other leading newspa-
pers for its contribution to the understanding of some of the problems facing the U.S. and
Hong Kong. Over the years these courses have undoubtedly made their academic and
cultural contributions and enriched the experience of the student participants as well as the
visiting professors. In view of these achievements, Shue Yan has spared no effort in devel-
oping programmes of academic cooperation accordingly.

The MBA Degree Programme

The cooperative Master of Business Administration Programme with the University of
Louisiana at Monroe (formerly known as Northeast Louisiana University) was started in the
summer of 1979.
The particulars of MBA Programme are as follows:

I. Prerequisites for the MBA Programme
The necessary academic background for the MBA degree programme involves the study
of foundation courses in basic accounting, principles of economics, statistics, business data
processing, finance, marketing and management.
An applicant for the Programme must satisfy the following admission requirements:
(a) S/he should hold a Bachelor’s degree. They should submit a complete official
transcript issued by the institution they attended.
(b) An applicant should submit his/her results of the Graduate Management Admission
Test (GMAT) or the Graduate Record Examination (GRE). The minimum
GMAT/GRE equivalent score required is 450.
(c) The prospective student should earn a score of 1000 or more points based on the
formula:
200 times the overall undergraduate grade-point average (on a 4.0 scale) + the
GMAT score;
The GMAT scale is from 200 to 800.

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