China MBA: Cal Poly State University

MBA留学：Cal Poly

One of the dreams of many Chinese and International students is to study abroad. Part of the mission of the Dreamblogue is to help individuals realize their dreams through information and financial support when and where we can offer it. This is the first in a series of posts that will spotlight schools we believe to be the best in China, America, Canada, the UK and Australia for overseas learning.

Top boxers are always being sized up against others outside of their weight class and are referred to by sports pundits as, “pound-for-pound” the best puncher, or overall fighter in the game. The same metaphor can easily be applied to International MBA Programs and especially those with China as their primary focus.

Long before Cal Poly became partners with the Dreamblogue Dawei had a chance to interact with students and faculty from the Orfalea College of Business: the best pound-for-pound International MBA program based in America. Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, California via The Orfalea College of Business offers a 1-year program for qualified students from China and the world: The MBA program with a focus on international business in China, concludes with a 1-month tour of Chinese culture and business. Prospective graduates visit small and medium-sized”expatraneurs” and China manufacturers, educational institutions, and world renowned multi-nationals like Walmart, Lenovo, and The Sands/Venetian. This year they climbed the Great Wall, toured the water village of Zhouzhung, and visited the UNESCO sites in the former Portuguese colony of Macau.

The Dreamblogue Team and Cal Poly at Zhongkai University below. Visit their CAL POLY MBA blog for more:

And the entire Cal Poly MBA program, located in one of the safest and most scenic areas of California, costs less in total than does a semester at a school with more recognizable branding. For now, Cal Poly is a well-kept secret, but that is not likely to last long as their leadership continues to innovate with a world-class faculty and curriculum.

You can download information in Chinese or English about Cal Poly’s programs here, as well as information about how to prepare and study for admission:

• Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and the Orfalea College of Business
• Cal Poly China MBA Program
• Cal Poly MBA Admission Information, Cost Information and Deadlines
• GMAT Study Help

In addition to their MBA program the Orfalea College of Business also offers a Masters degree in Industrial Technology. This MS in IT program reflects the current realities in the global manufacturing sector. That is — rapidly changing partnerships and outsourcing relationships, a premium for those companies that can manage them well, and a need for entry level managers who can jump into the fray of value chain management. Integral to this environment and need is technical competence in the areas of packaging and logistics. All of these elements are key components in their MS in IT program. It is also the case that the environment of global outsourcing has created huge new opportunities for entrepreneurial ventures in technology areas. Since virtually everything can be outsourced, there are relatively fewer obstacles to building new technology ventures - or entrepreneurial ventures within larger companies. That said, a third important component of the MS in IT program is focused on technology entrepreneurship, a logical companion to value chain management and packaging.

• Cal Poly Masters in Industrial Technology
• Masters in Industrial Technology Admission Information, Cost Information and Deadlines

Pound-for-pound we think these Cal Poly Orfalea College of Business graduate programs are the best in the world….

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We extend a warm welcome to the our friends from Yo2.cn! We hope to enjoy a long relationship with Charles, the founder, and the 11,000 (and growing!!) Wordpress blogs he supports on the first free WP platform in China.

One of our dreams for the coming year is to host a Wordpress Camp in Guangzhou or Hong Kong to educate users about the infinite possibilities of blogging using WP.

The Dream Team heads to Baidu (百度)

We’ll write more about this on Monday, but the Dream Team headed to the Baidu offices this past week as we prepare for our journey. One of the ways we earn income for the journey is by doing SEO/SEM and keyword selections for sponsors on Google.cn, Yahoo.cn and Baidu, the top engines in China. Great Internet marketing in China requires the tri-lingual efforts of everyone on the Dream Team. Look soon for an update about the first leg of our journey.

The Dream team at Baidu: Jacky, Ann, Enrica, Kevin, and Dawei.

Photo by Guy.

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In a series of articles about our sponsors, we’ve decided to begin with The China Business Network, a website devoted to helping entrepreneurs in China make important business connections and create exciting opportunities here in China. Created by Christine Lu, The China Business Network has a large media, podcast and content network it uses to promote businesses seeking to operate in China. Now that network can help our sponsors, too.

The China Dreamblogue has partnered with The China Business Network, and now our sponsors will have the opportunity to enjoy an interview on their networks, and readers can look forward to regular updates about the Dreamblogue on CBN.

Interested in helping to sponsor the Dreamblogue? There are several things you can do.

First, WE DO NOT ACCEPT DONATIONS. If you are interested in donating money, please contact one of the charities we support, The Library Project (run through the 501(c)3 charity Nomadic Marketing) or The Reading Tub. The China Dreamblogue offers services-for-fee and service-for-service exchanges with sponsors. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, we are looking for the following things:

• Individuals and Businesses: Link to us and favorite is on Technorati by clicking on the tab in our sidebar!

• We badly need 2 laptop computers–One of the current computers running the Blog of Dreams, Yanzhi’s prized Macbook, suffered a cracked screen and our second laptop caught a fatal virus, SO we are searching for laptop computers that will help us continue to create the Dreamblogue and maintain its content and projects for you while we travel.

• 2 high quality cameras to help us document the beauty of the people and places in China we encounter.
• 1 high quality digital movie camera to help us record the stories of the dreamers we meet along the way
• audio and video editing software to help us present the dreamers’ stories to you
• Educational institutions in the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand interested in attracting talented Chinese students to their universities
• Travel insurance to help keep us and the dreams we carry safe as we travel
• Airplane flights and acomodations from a travel company willing to help us arrange the legs of our journey
• Quality English-language training centers to help students prepare for their journeys to study abroad
• Other businesses willing to help individual dreamers achieve their dreams

Please note that we will give away all of the equipment and extra supplies at the end of the China Dreamblogue travels to our supporters and dreamers.

Interested parties can read more about sponsorship details here: Travel China Blog Proposal. Contact [*dawei@blogofdreams.com *] or [*yanzhi@blogofdreams.com *] if you or your organization are interested.

Keep Dreaming.

Recently, I spoke with Coffee, a former student of Liu Yanzhi, about the scholarship she received and about the dreams she wants to achieve. As some of you know, Coffee is a university student in Guangzhou and lost her leg last year to cancer. Though she spent months out of school, she studied over summer to make sure she graduated on time, and has now received a $20,000 USD scholarship to study French and learn to how to become a UN translator. I wanted to share this conversation I had with Coffee.

Dawei: Tell us a little bit about the scholarship you received to study translation.

Coffee: Yeah，I should say‘ thank you’ to my French teacher, he is so kind. He has high expectation on us and so he is strict with us in class, but he is easy-going after classes. I know what it means the moment he decides to grant me this opportunity. I will not let him down. Of course I will grab this opportunity to improve my French proficiency.

Dawei: Will you tell us about your dreams for yourself and why you wanted to study translation?

Coffee: I am always ambitious, I want to learn more about the languages and the cultures about the world, and I want to be a bridge between China and other countries in the world, to be a translator. I am fond of French; Luckily, I got this chance, thanks to the kindness of one of my former teachers at my school. I am now taking French as a second foreign language, and I will keep improving it.

Dawei: What are your dreams for your family and community?

Coffee: Yeah, I’ve been dreaming of changing the condition of my family for a long time. Dad and Mum are now getting old, and they have been swinking all their lives, it’s high time I did something for them, I want to make their lives better, and enjoy their lives in their old ages. I am now living in a small village, it’s far away from Guangzhou, most of my peers receive a secondary school education, and then pour into the job world. I am the only one to get a college education in my village. I hope I can change all this, and to make more children get access to higher education.

Dawei: Dreams are often held back by fears. What is your biggest fear about your dreams, and how have you overcome it?

Coffee: I always tell myself not to put all the eggs in one basket. I am always trying different ways to do things better, to be frank，when striking for my dreams, I am not fear of anything. I have confidence on myself. And I wish I could get a job as a translator, that’s the first step of fulfilling my dreams.

Dawei: What do you encourage others to do in order to achieve their dreams?

Coffee: I want to do my best and to be excellent and to show people life is to be conquered however hard it is. As long as you have a will, nothing is difficult. It is important keeping optimistic while facing difficulties.

Dawei: What do you hope to do with your scholarship and after you complete your training?

Coffee: I will keep on learning , as the saying goes : It’s never to late to learn. It does not mean my French proficiency is good enough after attending the training, there are lots of things I need to learn about. I hope I can learn more during my work. And I know clearly that to be a good translator, I should keep renewing my knowledge.

Keep Dreaming:

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China Daily Photos: Tibet, Shanghai, Beijing

Today’s photos of the day come from Beijing, Shanghai and Tibet and were taken by one loyal reader, Elvina Trixie, and one newcomer, G.M.

The first two photos today come from Elvina Trixie. This photo was taken in Tibet:

The second photo is called “Zeile Geit” (美好时光) and was taken in the Shanghai Art Museum:

Finally, G.M., a native Canadian, sent us this photo of a lotus at the Beijing Summer Palace:

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Remember to keep sending photos to [*photos@blogofdreams.com *]!

To help our readers who aren’t as familiar with Chinese geography, we’ve decided to start including a daily Chinese map. Thanks to the University of Texas Library for helping to supply us with these maps. Maps will be both modern and ancient, and show famous geographic, travel, and historical locations in China. We will be sure to include maps of the 22 mainland provinces as well as the autonomous regions–Guanxi, [*Tibet*], and Inner Mongolia as well as the Special Administrative region for Hong Kong and Macau. We hope this series can be of use for China travelers, expats coming to China, for China business, and even for explaining to a new friend where you come from or where you’ll be teaching, whether it’s remote Gansu or downtown Chongqing.

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Readers are welcome to send their own maps in as well to be featured on the Dreamblogue. Send your favorite, most interesting, most curious, or most-useful maps to [*photos@blogofdreams.com *].

Keep Dreaming:

Today’s Photos come from Elvina Trixie and Barbara Octaviani were taken in Shanghai (上海). Two of the photos come from the Yu Gardens (豫园).

The first photo today from Elvina Trixie is called “Yu Gardens Shanghai:”

More photos after the jump.

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