EMBA Program

The Executive MBA program of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST-EMBA) gained approval from the Chinese Academic Degrees Office of the State Council in 2002. Over two decades of development, HUST-EMBA has steadfastly upheld its educational philosophy, emphasizing "transcending cognitive boundaries, sharing management wisdom, aligning with value ecosystems, and fostering societal development."

Facing significant national demands and the main economic battlefield, HUST-EMBA relies on the abundant scientific and educational resources of HUST, such as mechanical engineering, optical engineering, biomedical engineering, public health, preventive medicine, etc. It combines the solid interdisciplinary advantages of the School of Management with the integration of high-quality domestic and foreign intellectual resources.

The program is dedicated to cultivating scientific and technological industrial leaders with Linking, Lightening and Leading abilities for China. To achieve this, it has established a talent cultivation system that integrates science and business, unifies theory with practice, connects east and west, and balances individual growth with societal contributions.

HUST-EMBA constantly explores new business models generated by the development of science and technology to help enterprises achieve scientific and technological development. It explores the new awareness and practice of enterprise management generated by new business models to enable enterprises to develop at high quality. And it also promotes the progress of the new commercial civilization, leading to social development with the entrepreneurial spirit of the new era. Over the past two decades, HUST-EMBA has cultivated over 3000 EMBA alumni for the society. At present, there are more than 500 EMBA students in school. And the quantity of enrollment ranks No.1 in central China and also in the whole China.

Adhering to the university spirit of "Learning at HUST" and insisting on strengthening the quality of construction of talent cultivation, HUST-EMBA took the lead in proposing the concept of "New people, New era, New value system" in 2019, opened the reform of talent cultivation system, and completed its construction in 2023.

The program adheres to the concept of "Better makes the better". It actively integrates resources inside and outside the university, and strengthens the construction of faculty. At present, HUST-EMBA has a team of teachers with a solid theoretical foundation and rich practical experience, of which 94.3% are professors. Meanwhile, it has engaged a social instructor group of renowned entrepreneurs such as Song Zhiping, Liu Shunda, Zhou Yunjie, Li Junqi, etc.

The program persists in open-door education, and has set up a series of practical teaching bases with outstanding enterprises such as Huawei, HIKVISION, CICT, Jintian Copper, China Merchants Bank, etc. It keeps organizing students to visit outstanding enterprises.

Based in the Optics Valley of China, HUST-EMBA has established long-term strategic cooperative relations with internationally renowned business schools and multinational enterprises. It also enriched its curriculum by inviting world-class scholars and globally renowned entrepreneurs to the EMBA courses.

Aiming to enable Chinese enterprises to step on the international stage, the program often organizes students to visit overseas, sharing global wisdom, building a platform for international cooperation and exchange, and expanding students' global vision. The HUST-EMBA students visited Harvard Business School in 2011 and the University of Melbourne in 2015. In December of 2019, HUST-EMBA Education Center successfully held the first Science and Business Integration Forum, signed Establishing a “Sino-Swiss Strategic Cooperation for Trade and Investment in Yangtze River Economic Zone with Trade and Investment Office of Embassy of Switzerland in China, under Mr. Luo Zhiyi’s (ambassador of Switzerland to PRC) witness. In July 2023, the EMBA Education Center led students on a 9-day study trip of hidden champions in Germany.

Facing the future, HUST-EMBA will anchor the vision of "strengthening the nation, advancing science and technology, integrating science with business, and developing industry for the country." It is committed to providing students with modern business education featuring "science and business integration", and building a lifelong learning platform and alumni service platform for alumni to achieve "academic success, career progress, and a better life." Together with 700,000 alumni of HUST, the program is fostering social development all the way.

Curriculum

The curriculum of HUST-EMBA contains required and elective courses. The required courses are mainly related to basic economic theory and management skills. For the elective courses, there are modules on Frontier Technology & Business Energization, Enterprise Strategy Formulation & Implementation, Business Management & Decision-Making, and Entrepreneurship. These modules conform to the future development trend of science and technology, further break through the knowledge boundaries, which are conducive to stimulating innovation. These modules also highly emphasize the cultivation of leadership, international vision, and entrepreneurship.

Contact us

Tel: +86 27-87543354/+86 27-87556473

E-mail: emba@hust.edu.cn

Address: Room 216, SOM, HUST, No.1037 Luoyu Road, Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei, P. R. China.