1. Introduction to colleges and universities
Anhui University of Finance and Economics is a university jointly built by the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives and the People's Government of Anhui Province. It is a characteristic high-level university under key construction in Anhui Province, a peak subject construction university in Anhui Province, and an industry-specific university in Anhui Province (cultivation). The school was founded in 1959. It was approved as a bachelor's degree-granting unit in 1981, a master's degree-granting unit in 1986, and a doctoral degree-granting unit in 2024, forming a talent training system that integrates undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees. The school currently has two campuses, Bengbu Longhu East and West Campuses, and the Hefei Institute of Advanced Studies, covering an area of more than 1,450 acres and a construction area of approximately 750,000 square meters.
The school's disciplines cover eight major categories, including economics, management, law, literature, science, engineering, art, and education. It has 1 first-level discipline for doctoral degree authorization, 10 first-level disciplines for master's degree authorization, and 19 professional master's degree authorization categories. There are currently 13 provincial and ministerial scientific research and innovation platforms, including the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives’ key think tanks, Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Anhui Provincial key think tanks, Anhui Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center, and Anhui Provincial Key Humanities and Social Sciences Research Bases for Universities, and 40 school-level characteristic scientific research and innovation platforms.
2. Project introduction
In 2007, with the approval of the Academic Degrees Office of the State Council, Anhui University of Finance and Economics obtained the qualification to offer a professional degree in business administration (MBA), becoming the seventh batch of MBA training institutions. Since its establishment, Anhui University of Finance and Economics' MBA education has adhered to the school motto of "Integrity and erudition, unity of knowledge and action", aiming to cultivate professional managers with entrepreneurial potential, and has embarked on a unique path of innovative development. In recent years, the MBA program of Anhui University of Finance and Economics has systematically integrated high-quality faculty across the school, comprehensively optimized the construction of the curriculum system and quality control system, strengthened the unique empowerment of finance and economics, and continued to improve the quality of talent training and school reputation. At the same time, the project focuses on leveraging the advantages of disciplines and expertise, deeply promotes industry-university-research cooperation, and comprehensively supports high-quality development of the local economy.
3. Project Features
Integration of industry, academia and research, and collaboration among tutor groups: This project has innovatively constructed a "three-dimensional collaboration, multi-structure" teaching system, and specially invited part-time expert professors to provide forward-looking guidance to ensure that talent training is in sync with cutting-edge trends; it relies on on-campus tutors to consolidate the theoretical foundation and supervise academic quality throughout the entire process; it also introduces industrial tutors to strengthen practical skills and connect the last mile from the classroom to the workplace. Through the complementary advantages of the three parties and collaborative education, the deep integration of industry, academia and research has been truly realized and the quality of talent training has been significantly improved.
Ancai New Business School, new direction of digital intelligence: In order to cope with the wave of digital intelligence economy, this project deeply integrates Anhui University of Finance and Economics’ profound accumulation in the fields of economics and management, and proactively sets five distinctive professional directions: digital intelligence business innovation, digital marketing, leadership and human resource development, AI strategy, and finance. With this as the core, a four-tier curriculum system consisting of professional basic courses, professional required courses, professional elective courses and direction elective courses has been systematically constructed, which not only ensures a solid disciplinary foundation, but also gives students the flexibility to independently explore cutting-edge fields, achieving the organic unity of "broad foundation" and "fine direction".
Integration of politics, industry and alumni, accurate value linkage: committed to building an ecosystem that empowers lifelong development. Relying on the school's rich alumni and platform resources, it has successfully broken down the barriers between government, industry and academia. Gather the resources of the three parties to form a strong synergy. Focusing on the three major areas of "industry information sharing, government-enterprise cooperation opportunities, and management consulting practice", we create high-quality exchange opportunities for students and alumni, accurately connect business needs and career development, and achieve overall resource optimization and value maximization.
Focus on the practice of Huizhou merchants and innovate case teaching: Deeply integrate the business practices of Huizhou merchants and innovatively build a five-in-one case education model of "acquisition and editing-writing-teaching-research-application" to promote industry-education collaboration and knowledge transformation. The case results developed in cooperation with enterprises have been repeatedly recognized by the industry. Many cases have been selected into authoritative domestic and foreign platforms such as Canada Ivey Case Library, China Management Case Sharing Center, and China Business Administration Case Library. They have also won the "National Top 100 Excellent Management Cases" award many times. Outstanding performance in the "Excellent Developer" case competition of Tsinghua University China Business Administration Case Center, continuing to empower the growth of Huizhou business enterprises with high-quality case studies, and achieving a win-win situation of academic and practical value.
Promoting learning through competition and diversified empowerment: The project attaches great importance to the cultivation of comprehensive quality of students and relies on multiple competition platforms to promote learning through competition and application of learning. For many years, the program has organized students to participate in authoritative national competitions such as the National Management Case Elite Competition, the China Graduate Enterprise Management Innovation Competition, and the "Internet+" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and has won numerous awards, demonstrating solid professionalism and excellent practical abilities. At the same time, it actively organizes students to participate in large-scale sports competitions such as the "Asian New Championships" and "Yangtze River Delta MBA Badminton League", effectively expanding the inter-school interaction and industry exchange network, and comprehensively assisting the growth and development of students.
Strengthen the integration of theory and practice: actively innovate the training model, deeply integrate classroom teaching and the second classroom through the dual-track "invite in" and "go out", and build an open and integrated practical teaching system. On the one hand, well-known entrepreneurs, industry experts and senior alumni are regularly invited into the classroom to conduct special lectures, case studies and workshops, bringing the most cutting-edge business practices and management wisdom to campus, helping students to perceive the real operations of enterprises at close range and broaden their business horizons. On the other hand, students are actively organized to conduct visits, research and practice in Huizhou business enterprises and cooperative units, covering multiple fields such as intelligent manufacturing, financial technology, and modern services. Through enterprise diagnosis, project consulting, internship training, etc., students deepen their theoretical understanding in practice and hone their ability to solve practical problems. It not only strengthens students' systematic mastery of management theory, but also cultivates their comprehensive application capabilities and innovative thinking in real business environments, fully achieving the training goal of "unity of knowledge and action".
Integrate China and foreign countries and link the future: actively carry out global cooperation projects and expand international horizons. Currently, more than 60 experts and professors have been sent to the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Malaysia and other countries and regions to conduct in-depth academic exchanges with more than 20 universities and colleges. On this basis, the project has reached important intentions for MBA education cooperation with a number of overseas institutions. The cooperation content includes sending outstanding MBA students to well-known foreign universities for degree studies, short-term study visits, and field trips to multinational companies. It aims to provide students with an international learning platform, cultivate their global operational capabilities and cross-cultural management vision, and comprehensively build an international training system.
Laying out strategic highlands and expanding the school-running pattern: The project actively relies on the strategic highland of the Hefei Institute for Advanced Study of Anhui University of Finance and Economics to open the MBA Hefei class, responding to the school's "new economics and management" development strategy, and striving to build a new development pattern of "one body, two wings". Since the opening of the first phase of the Hefei class in 2022, the project has been running smoothly, with excellent student quality and teaching feedback, forming a good development trend, further optimizing the geographical structure of the discipline, strengthening the linkage of school and local resources, and cultivating more high-level management talents for regional economic development.
4. Project settings
Training method: full-time (non-directed), part-time (directed)
Training location: Full-time at Bengbu campus, part-time at Bengbu/Hefei campus
Research directions: digital intelligence business innovation, digital marketing, leadership and human resource development, AI strategy, finance
5. Enrollment Number
The planned enrollment in 2027 is: 55 full-time students and 95 part-time students. The actual number of students enrolled is subject to the enrollment quota issued by the school.
6. Application conditions
Basic conditions: Citizens of the People's Republic of China, support the leadership of the Communist Party of China, have good moral character, abide by laws and regulations, and have good health that meets the physical examination requirements stipulated by the state and Anhui University of Finance and Economics.
Educational qualifications and work experience requirements: Candidates’ academic level and working experience must meet one of the following conditions:
Have more than 3 years of work experience after graduating from university (as of August 31, 2027);
Obtain a nationally recognized diploma from a higher vocational college or a bachelor's degree, reach the equivalent of a bachelor's degree and have more than 5 years of work experience (as of August 31, 2027);
Have more than 2 years of work experience after obtaining a master's or doctoral degree or degree (as of August 31, 2027).
The relevant examination and admission policies for MBA professional degree graduate students are also implemented in accordance with the relevant regulations of the "Opinions of the Ministry of Education on Further Standardizing the Education of MBA Professional Degree Graduate Students" (Jiaoyan [2016] No. 2).
Other requirements: Our school does not allow graduate students to hold two or more statuses at the same time. Postgraduate students (non-fresh graduates) must obtain the consent of their training unit before applying. If they pass the re-examination, they must withdraw from their training unit before they can obtain the qualifications for admission to our school. Applicants with academic degree certificates obtained abroad must obtain the "Overseas (Overseas) Academic Degree Certification" issued by the Study Abroad Service Center of the Ministry of Education. A certification report must be submitted during the qualification review, otherwise the admission qualification will be invalid.
Application Category: Candidates who apply for the Business Administration (Code: 1251) major of our school and whose study mode is full-time must choose the application category as "Non-directed Employment", and their files must be transferred to the school after admission. The "Part-time" enrollment major only accepts applications from candidates whose application category is "Directed Employment".
7. Curriculum System
Core courses: Marxism and social science methodology, managerial economics, data models and decision-making, accounting, operations management, organizational behavior, corporate finance, marketing management, human resource development and management, strategic management, corporate diagnosis/corporate decision simulation
Public elective courses: Huizhou business culture, Chinese business gangs, corporate ethics and traditional Chinese culture, speech and eloquence, macroeconomic hot spots and trend analysis, finance and local economy, business etiquette, management communication, business law, econometric methods and applications, artificial intelligence and big data, e-commerce, entrepreneurship simulation, leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship management, management research methods
Professional courses:
Digital intelligence business innovation direction: intelligent finance and finance, digital management, big data analysis, blockchain and financial technology
Digital marketing direction: new media marketing, brand management, customer relationship management, international business management
Leadership and human resource development direction: compensation management, performance management, organizational theory and design, leadership development
AI strategic direction: artificial intelligence and business decision-making, machine learning applications, intelligent supply chain management
Finance direction: capital operation, corporate internal control, financial investment, financial statement analysis
Other training links: expansion training, industry cutting-edge lectures (entrepreneur lecture hall), innovative practice activities, social practice
8. Tuition fees
Full-time MBA: The full tuition fee is 50,000 yuan, which is paid in three annual installments: 20,000 yuan in the first and second years, and 10,000 yuan in the third year.
Part-time MBA: The full tuition fee is 80,000 yuan, which is paid in three annual installments: 32,000 yuan in the first and second years, and 16,000 yuan in the third year.
If the tuition fee standard is adjusted, it shall be subject to the filing of the Anhui Provincial Price Management Department.
9. Academic system
The duration of study is two and a half years, and the maximum length of study is no more than five years.
10. Application process
Online registration: It is expected to log in to the China Postgraduate Admissions Information Network (https://yz.chsi.com.cn) in October 2026 to register, and register according to the online announcement requirements of the provincial education admissions examination institutions, application points and application admissions units. During the registration period, candidates can modify the online registration information or re-fill the registration information, but each candidate can only retain one piece of valid registration information.
Online confirmation: Online confirmation is expected to be carried out in early November 2026. Candidates should check and confirm their registration information online within the specified time, submit supplementary materials according to the verification work requirements, and no re-application will be made after the deadline. Those who have not participated in the online confirmation or failed the online confirmation will not be able to take the exam.
Preliminary examination: Participate in the national management joint examination to be held in December 2026.
Re-examination: Those whose initial examination scores reach the national and school re-examination scores will participate in the re-examination organized by the school in March-April 2027.
Admission: Admission will be based on the enrollment plan, re-examination admission methods, candidates’ preliminary and re-examination scores, ideological and political performance, physical and mental health status, etc.
11. Preliminary test
The preliminary examination will be the National Management Examination in late December 2026.
Examination subjects: Comprehensive ability in management joint examination (full score is 200 points, including 75 points in mathematics, 60 points in logic, and 65 points in writing), English II (full score is 100 points).
Examination location: The examination center designated by the Provincial Degree Office, please refer to the admission ticket for details.
12. Re-examination
The re-examination is jointly organized by the Graduate School of Anhui University of Finance and Economics and the MBA/MTA Education Center, and will generally take place in March-April 2027.
Re-examination content: Ideological and political theory examination, English listening and speaking test, comprehensive interview (including professional experience introduction, management professional knowledge and ability interview).
Re-examination qualification review: During the re-examination, our school will conduct a unified qualification review of candidates. Applicants who do not meet the application requirements or provide false information will not be admitted, and the relevant consequences will be borne by the candidates themselves.
Additional examination for equivalent academic qualifications: Candidates with equivalent academic qualifications need to take additional examinations for professional courses. The additional examination subjects are "Principles of Management" and "Marketing".
13. Admission
Calculation of total admission score: Comprehensive score = (total score in preliminary examination ÷ 3) × 60% + re-examination score × 40%.
Admission principles: Adhere to the principles of fairness, impartiality, and openness, and select candidates based on their comprehensive evaluation of preliminary and re-examination scores, ideological and political performance, professional qualities, and physical health. Those who fail the ideological and political quality and moral assessment will not be admitted.
14. Certificate Awarding
Students must complete the credits specified in the training plan within the specified period of time, complete the dissertation and pass the defense. After review and approval by the school's degree evaluation committee, Anhui University of Finance and Economics will be awarded a master's degree diploma and a master's degree in business administration certificate (double certificate).
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