Potential Collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University
On March 16th, Michael Trick, Professor, Senior Associate Dean for Education and Pierre Jinghong Liang, Associate Professor of Accounting from Tepper School of Business Carnegie Mellon University visited SYSBS, taking time to discuss the potential collaboration between the two schools.
The meeting in the morning 16th March began with introductions of both schools given by Dr. Trick from Tepper and Director LU from SYSBS, followed by a presentation delivered by SYSBS MBA Director WANG on the design of potential collaboration between the two schools on a 4-week China module MBA program. This preliminary program is designed to meet Tepper’s requirements based on its current German Model, covering issues of academic courses, lectures, activities, multi-point, multi-purpose tours, etc.
Dr. Trick holds a positive attitude towards the preliminary program proposed by SYSBS. MBA Education Center will follow up with the improvement of the proposal. Colleagues at SYSBS look forward to the collaboration between the two schools.
Carnegie Mellon University (simply CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. In 1967, the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to form Carnegie Mellon University.
CMU has seven colleges and independent schools: the Carnegie Institute of Technology (engineering), College of Fine Arts, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mellon College of Science, Tepper School of Business, School of Computer Science, and the H. John Heinz III College. CMU’s offerings in computer science, electrical engineering, business, economics, public policy, information systems, psychology, statistics, creative writing, entertainment technology, decision science, and the arts are considered among the best in their fields.
In 2012 CMU ranked 23rd among "national universities" in the US News and World Report and 21st by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
BusinessWeek's 2011 rankings of the best undergraduate business schools have also placed the Tepper School of Business's undergraduate business program at 3rd for starting salaries (competing with Wharton School of Business and the MIT Sloan School of Management) and 4th for academic quality.
Overall, CMU is affiliated with eighteen Nobel laureates: Robert Lucas, Merton Miller, Franco Modigliani, Herb Simon, Edward Prescott, Finn Kydland, Oliver Williamson and Dale Mortensen.
