At the Beginning of October 21st, 2013, Financial Times (FT) announced its 2013 Global EMBA ranking. Though it was the first time for ACEM to have participated in, ACEM edged into top 100 with its local Chinese EMBA program together with Fudan University and Renmin University of China, ranking 32, 38 and 61 respectively. The Joint program of ACEM and DEDGE Business School (Euromed Marseille Ecole de Management, formerly) leaped to 43rd from 48th of last year.

FT have released annual world EMBA ranking since 2001. With 20 strict evaluation criteria of 3 aspects consisting of management innovation, internationalization and students’ career, FT has built up its authority in evaluation of business schools and their EMBA programs. FT ranking is the ideal guide for people to analyze the comprehensive strength of and apply for their desired business schools.EMBA programs first landed on China in the form joint programs by CEIBS. It was not until 2002 that the Ministry of Education approved 30 domestic universities to establish their local EMBA programs. Despite our late start, local EMBA programs have developed rapidly. While learning from the best practice of top international business schools, we build up the feature of serving for China’s corporates and entrepreneurs. With ten years of perseverance, we have achieved the success of 3 programs edging into the global top 100. We believe that, in time, more local business schools will be listed on FT top 100 with ACEM of SJTU, Fudan, and Renmin University.

The success of Antai EMBA programs come from all the endeavors of ACEM. Firstly, the high level of scientific research of ACEM provides solid academic support. Professors of ACEM have leaded the number of papers in top management journals among China’s universities in recent years. Finance, Accounting, and Economics of ACEM edged into top 100 of QS Discipline Ranking. Operations Research ranked 18th especially. Secondly, the internationalized course arrangement, international high-level faculty, and popular curriculum modules from North America and Europe maximize the internationalization of EMBA. ACEM was China’s first business school to be certificated by 3 international authorities (AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS). Thirdly, aiming to cultivate students’ leadership, Antai EMBA programs arrange courses on recognizing, developing, expanding, consolidating, introspecting, and applying leadership. Especially, we have developed 3 distinctive integrated modules, brightening students’ career future. We have continuously held well-known “Business Model Competition” for 20 times, giving birth to and fostering numbers of promising corporates like China’s first digital organic farm “Yimutian” and petro-sewage treatment company “Aegis”.

For 11 years, we have cultivated more than 3000 industry talents and senior management talent, with alumni all over industries in China. To keep leading, we continuously update and develop, conforming to the global economic trend. This year, under the context of the transformation and upgrading of China's economy, we firstly started EMBA program in entrepreneurship. Welcome young prominents aspired to innovation and entrepreneurship to join ACEM, we will together heading for a prosperous innovative society of China.