The Top Business Schools in the US for Chinese Students

After two year of interviews and research we have compiled our lists of top business schools and Executive MBA (E-MBA) programs for Chinese students looking for study opportunities in America, Australia, Canada, UK, Singapore and New Zealand.

We will be listing the top five schools in each country in no particular order. The criteria used to evaluate schools differs greatly from that used by US News and World Report and others. We queried parents and prospective students during our travels about those issues that most concerned them and most affected their choices before and after admission. The rankings displayed are unbiased and were not affected by our affinity for any program despite one of the schools being a strong supporter of the Blog of Dreams.

Criteria:

• Openness Toward Foreign Students/Ethnic Diversity
• Financial Assistance
• Post Graduation Placement Assistance
• Faculty to Student Ratio
• Overall Reputation of Graduate School
• Campus Safety
• Ease of Application/Admission Office Attitude
• Affordability: Living Costs, Tuition
• Curriculum
• Student Life
• Internship Options
• Salary After Graduation
• Alumni Network

Top Five Business Schools in no particular order for the second year in a row:

• Purdue: Scored highest in Ethic diversity (Chinese students make up 2nd largest population), Alumni Network, Graduate School Reputation, and Curriculum. Downside: “Too many foreign students”

• Ohio State: Scored highest in Student Life, Ease of Application and Financial Assistance. Downside:”Community off-campus lacks resources”

• Cal Poly: Scored highest in Affordability, Campus Safety, Faculty to Student Ratio, Graduate School Reputation (Top Overall Masters Degree Granting Institution in the West) and Post Graduate Placement and salary (for state run schools). Downside: “Application procedure daunting and deadlines are not in line with desirable schools”

• Harvard: Scored Highest in Reputation, Alumni Network, Salary After Graduation, Faculty to Student Ratio, Ethnic Diversity, and Internship Options. Downside: “Impersonal admissions personnel and application procedures”

• University of Minnesota: Scored highest in Ethnic Diversity, Curriculum, Campus Safety, Ease of Application. Downside: “Off-campus life lacks diversity and weather is difficult for some”

Other schools close to making the cut: University of Arizona, Columbia University, UCLA, University of California at Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania and the University of Iowa…

In this round of dreaming, we have voices from all over the world. Where does your voice fit in?

Abbas, from Kurdistan/Iraq:

“My dream is how to study in a foreign country, especially in USA or UK or Canada or Australia, because i am looking for an opportunity to get my master degree in LLM or MBA. I hope I can find someone who can help me.”

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Happy Cookies, from the UK:

“Going abroad is my dream, to have a wider horizon, to know the world more, to have a objective personal judgment, to learn more, experience more…Before I knew any foreigners, I lived under the illusion of the domestic government. Initially, I find their vision ridiculous, but after knowing a bit about their view, I discovered my vision of our world is not the true one. So I rejected the persuasion of my parents to attending the silly civil servant position. And I decided to get out of here and give myself a wider world.”

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Sarah, from the United States:

“To practice medicine internationally”

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BB, from China:

“I hope I have no language barrier with Foreigners.”

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mark331527573, also from China:

“I want to be a multimillionaire.”

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Elvina Trixie, from Indonesia:

“My dream is that people want to learn to listen and to understand each other better.”

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nguyentrain, from Toronto:

“My parents grew up in a place where they were hated for being different from everyone around them, and they came to Canada to give me a chance to grow up without that hate in my life. I want to live in a world where that kind of hate doesn’t exist, where people do not have to leave their homes because of other people’s fear of people who are different.”

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R. Camhino, from Brazil:

“I want to send my children to study in the USA and come home and make our home country a better place.”

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Jiao Wang, from Thailand:

“I want to make friends from very many places in the world!”

Keep dreaming…

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详细信息，可以下载以下资料。

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Study in the USA

留学美国： Jacky 的留学梦

看中文内容，请点击更多。（This article is in English. To read it in Chinese, click on the more tag.)

A major goal of the China Dreamblogue is to create educational opportunities for students who may not otherwise have the chance, and as a part of this, we are creating possibilities for students to study abroad at US and UK Schools as well as other places. As a part of our journey, we will be giving away approximately $24,000 USD (￥186,000) in scholarships from America to qualified applicants looking to make their educational dreams come true.

Living in a foreign country is difficult, and often students need guides. Here, you will find guides written in Chinese about preparing for study abroad, learning about the US and UK foreign culture, and preparing for the strange and interesting experience of studying abroad and living in a foreign country.

Jacky, one of the loyal dreamers of this blog, has made a decision to prepare for studying abroad in the US in hopes of earning an MBA from Calpoly’s MBA program. I’ve asked him a few questions about his dreams with us and why he has chosen to study abroad.

David: Why do you dream about studying abroad?

Jacky: I want better education opportunities, and I think universities in UK and USA can give me this.

David: Why do you want a MBA?

Jacky: My father has a factory that is neither big nor small. And my dream is to help him to develop it into a big, international company. I hope that I will learn how to do that from the MBA program.

David: What is your dream for your family?

Jacky: I hope my father and my mother has a good and relaxing life after I come back from abroad. I hope that what I do will support all the spending in my family’s daily life. What’s more, I really just want them have a happy life.

David: What about your community?

Jacky: I’m from Foshan, a city near Guangzhou. I think my city now is a wealthy city and full of opportunities. People living in this city are happy. Foshan City is now the third biggest city in Canton province, behind Guangzhou and Shenzhen. I think it will become more and more popular all over the world in the future. This is a good chance for me.

David: If you wanted to give advice to other people about following their dreams, what would you say?

Jacky: In my opinion, study abroad requires a brave heart. You have to adapt to life in a whole different environment, culture and people. You have to study in a totally different educational system. You have to deal with your homesickness. You have to overcome disconnection from your friends and family.

David: How do you feel about living in foreign country?

Jacky: I think living in a foreign country is exciting at the beginning and is terrible after the first few weeks. When you first arrive, I think you will feel like you are traveling. But when you keep doing the same thing week after week, and there is no one you can talk to, that’s the most dangerous and terrible time for a international student. But during this time you explore your surroundings, and when you get used to it, it will become your second hometown, and you will feel you don’t want to leave.

Blog your Dream/把梦想写在博客上:

To continue in Chinese, read on…

中文待续……

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In preparing for the dreamblogue project David and I applied for a grant from Global Voices Online via their new Rising Voices initiative. Rising Voices is the outreach arm of Global Voices.

The recipients have already been chosen (no, I don’t know) and will be announced on Monday. Over 140 applications from 40 countries came in from what appears to be a true “Who’s Who in Global Citizen Journalism.”

According to their website, “Global Voices aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online – shining light on places and people other media often ignore. Global Voices Online is a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society.”

Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca McKinnon were the driving forces at Harvard behind the formation of Global Voices. It has become one of the most respected news and reporting endeavors on the net and recently won the Knight-Batten Grand Prize for Innovations in Journalism.

Soon after applying for the grant we were informed by David Sasaki, GVOL’s Outreach Director, that there would be a online group created for all applicants to share their wishes, resources and dreams. In combing the bios of the members thus far I am awed by the creativity, courage and commitment of everyone I have read about: Nasim Fekrat, one of the winners of the Freedom of Expression Blog Awards from Reporters without Borders; Kathleen Gerahty, who co-created Picure Us, a photo exchange program for kids 8-12 aimed at increasing self esteem through photography, storytelling and art; Marnie Gustavson, who now lives in Kabul, Afghanistan and is the executive director of PARSA, (Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Services for Afghanistan); Yuanzhou Qu with the imaginative and much needed China based 1 KG program that brings inspiration and supplies to rural villages; Our own China-sphere’s Tenement Palm with a Blogger Watch group proposal (I am all for this one!) and more….

The list of participants is long and inspiring. David and I are truly grateful to Global Voices for the chance to meet Internet Chance-takers and the Good Samaritans of many faiths and background. Only 4-6 of the projects will initially be funded and I do not envy Mr. Sasaki. I would like to see everyone able to further global connections via this group….We hope to bring you stories on the dreamblogue and here at OMBW about some of these programs. Caution: It could positively change your world-view….

Update on the China Dreamblogue: more than 100 people have visited one of the intended beneficiaries of our group, The Library Project, and have offered services and financing. California Polytechnic will be weighing in with scholarship/educational support for the students we meet along the way and we are firming up a few more such relationships we hope to announce to you by early next week.

I am still nearly bedridden with a fractured ankle, but in high spirits….Regular blogging resumes tomorrow….

If you could save lives and provide needed educational opportunities to rural and orphaned children for a few minutes of your time and for free, would you do it?

The dream is to travel in 2007 to every mainland province in China. During this journey, the China Dreamblogue will chronicle the everyday lives of ordinary Chinese citizens. The motivation for this trip came from a group of women known as the League of Extraordinary Chinese Women. The LOECW was comprised of 5 women from various walks of Chinese life—wives, semi-professional women, a bookkeeper, and a student. The one thing they had in common was advanced-stage cancer. These women, with little access to formal education and less information from outside sources about the disease they had contracted, naturally and courageously combated their disease with friendship, enthusiasm, meditation, and the medical care they could afford.

Around this time, Yanzhi and Dawei also met Thomas Stader, an expat who has devoted his time, talents, and treasures to Chinese people educationally and economically left behind by giving them access to life-changing education. The Dreamblogue is an attempt to unite the strength, courage, and stories of people around China and channel it into a force that will help realize the dreams everyone carries.

All of the money generated from the advertising on this site will go directly from Feedburner and Blogads to the charities we support, The Library Project and The Reading Tub. No one at the Dreamblogue will never directly handle the money.

The Blog of Dreams will have videocasts, podcasts, a China picture contest (to be turned into a coffee table book) , a weekly Chinese horoscope, weekly Chinese recipes (also to be a book), and most importantly, the daily dreams of people from around the world. The Dreamblogue has been created to be a tool of understanding and a place where dreams can be spoken into reality.

To help:

1. Use the logo here or on the blog’s sidebar and click on the little green box that says “favorite this blog.”



2. Follow the instructions on Technorati. This will take you less than one minute.
3. The Technorati favoriting website may send you back to the blog of dreams. Click the “favorite this blog” button one more time to finish.
4. Link to us on your blog.
5. Let us know that you helped by e-mailing me or sending a comment. We’ll return the favor by favoriting your blog. Invite your friends to favorite and link to this blog. We will be creating a Dreamblogue blogroll in the future and will include you.

The other part of the journey is about creating a space on The Dreamblogue where people can blog their dream—they can write about a dream they have for themselves, a dream they have for someone else, or an educational dream they want to fill. There is a Chinese superstition that if you talk about bad things, they will come true. Instead, the Dreamblogue’s vision says that if you share your dream with others, you are willing it into being. Send your dreams to the blog of dreams, and we will post dreams other people want to share with the world.

Help change lives. As Yanzhi and Dawei travel throughout the year, the blog will able to give away a variety of products from different corporate sponsors as well as scholarships to study in China.

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The Dream:

Our dream is to travel in 2007 to every mainland province in China. During this journey, it is our intention to chronicle the everyday lives of ordinary Chinese citizens. Our motivation for the trip came from a group of women known as the League of Extraordinary Chinese Women. The LOECW was comprised of 5 women from various walks of Chinese life—wives, semi-professional women, a bookkeeper, and a student. The one thing they had in common was advanced-stage HER2 breast cancer. These women, with little access to formal education and less information from outside sources about the disease they had contracted, naturally and courageously combated their disease with friendship, enthusiasm, meditation, and what medical care they could afford.

One member of the original group has survived, and a newer, younger member has been added recently—a 22-year-old student who lost her leg to bone cancer. Both of the survivors lack the financial wherewithal to apply standard medical treatment to their illness. We devoted time and energy from our blogs and lives to raise money for members of the league. As a result of our initial efforts, we were able to extend the life of some members, and we enabled the student to purchase a prosthetic leg.

During this first effort, we began to think about other Chinese people left behind in the wake of this huge industrial growth. Around this time, we also met Thomas Stader and Laurie Mackenzie, two expats who have devoted their time, talents, and treasures to Chinese, educationally and economically left behind, by giving them access to life-changing education. Our meetings sparked Yanzhi Liu’s interest, as he was (and still is) a board member for the US-based group The Reading Tub. Because we are educators and bloggers actively involved in search engine marketing optimization and education, we sought to find a way to organize the entrepreneurial energy of the people we met and turn it into a force that would help us, and other people, realize the dreams we now hold dear.

We decided to experiment, via the Blog of Dreams, by asking students in our global internet marketing class to take a hands-on approach to global marketing by contributing to a positive world awareness of China while aiding worthy causes. Students immediately drove a brand new blog to the number 23 position (out of 75 million) in the Favorites section of Technorati, the premiere blog aggregator in the world. Students ensured that one of our blogs was nominated for and eventually won Best Asian Blog in the Annual Weblog Awards. This blog already held dozens of top ten slots in search engine slots for keywords related to China business. So, with this kind of early momentum, student commitment and huge volunteer support, we knew we could create a project that would make a difference in other people’s lives via the Internet.

The Dreamblogue is a simple concept. We will contact people through PR Web, Blogger News Network (BNN, for whom we write), Google News, Social Networks like Facebook and our volunteer network. We will also promote an Internet MEME that asks people be to share real dreams for themselves or someone else. After a specified period of time (maybe once a month or once a quarter), we’ll select a contributor who will win a prize donated by one of our charitable sponsors. We hope to give away vacations to China, scholarships for study abroad, equipment, Software and cutting edge gadgets that will appeal to our broad demographic. We want to attract a Postsecret-type (http://postsecret.blogspot.com) interest in our blog that will drive enough traffic that we can generate advertising revenue to give to educational and medical concerns.

The blog will use Feedburner and Blogads as its primary advertising revenue resources. The number of ads that we allow will be limited: no more than 1 ad in our feed, 1 ad in our posts, and 1 ad in our blog ads. All of the money generated from these sources will go directly from Feedburner and Blogads to the charities we support—we will never directly handle the money.

The other advertising that we will be present on the site will be for other corporations and institutions that sponsor our adventure, and those ads will be top listed display ads in the sidebar of the blog of dreams.

Any educational concerns that join us as sponsors for the trip will have direct links on our site to translated pages or individual websites that will advertise to Chinese students and more importantly, their parents. We will do all of the search engine optimization and translation and ongoing support for these.

The Blog of Dreams will have videocasts, podcasts, a China picture contest (to be turned into a coffee table book) , a weekly Chinese horoscope, weekly Chinese recipes (also to be a book), and most importantly, the daily dreams of people from around the world. In all, the Dreamblogue has been created to be a tool of understanding and a place where dreams can be spoken into reality.

We will be telling you more in the next few days. Right now? head for the siebar and please favorite us in Technorati and add us to your blogrolls!

ABOUT US: Read on »

One thing I do miss about America is the grand amount of community and continuing education available to virtually anyone and much of it for free. I was stumbling through Illustratrator’s newest release on MAC yesterday and bemoaning the fact that even a book on the subject would be hard to come by or too expensive to ship or pick up in Hong Kong.

Coincidentally, two colleges contacted me about the possibility of low-residency Masters and Doctoral programs and Continuing Education. One school is based in the UK and one is in the US. Both have good reputations and a comprehensive offering of courses. Both asked me if I thought they could be successful in China with the expat community. I answered honestly that I hadn’t a clue, but that I would ask you.

Let me know your thoughts and please feel free to add a response or two to the poll.

This is the China Dreamblogue, a home for the wandering adventures of Yanzhi and Dawei. For the next year, we will make our way across China and speak with people from every ethnic group and every province in China about their life, customs, and traditions. Our goal is to create an understanding of China in full and to create a life on the internet for China that matches the diversity and beauty of China’s people, customs, culture, and tradition. We will include photos, cartoons, maps, stories, recipes, interviews, and heartsongs on topics as varied as Chinese astrology, Chinese cooking, humor, and other inter-cultural issues.

As we travel, we also have other missions to complete. We will create blog posts about our journey, but we also want people from all over the world to participate in this blog by sending us photos, maps, information, captions, cartoons, comments, and anything else you want to add. In addition, you will have a chance to vote on where we go next.

A slogan we have at the Blog of Dreams is “One Dream, One Web.” This slogan reflects one of the goals of the Dreamblog: to create space for fair, open, and honest exchange about China. Too much of the Western world focuses on the negative about China. We want to support net neutrality–making space on the Internet for positive news about China.

We also want to use this blog to generate money…for charity. As this blog grows in internet power, it will generate more and more advertising revenue. We want to make sure this money goes towards people in China who need it most. We’ve created a system where we won’t touch the money–it will go directly to the people doing the work to make life in China a better place for deserving people who cannot afford items we take for granted—like books. We will include profiles of groups we give to, like Volunteer English Teachers, The Library Project, and The League of Extraordinary Chinese Women. We will also have a system where you can send money through our site to different charities that do work in China.

One of our goals is to create a dream list: we will ask people to submit their dreams and if ad revenues support it, we will grant their wish.

Finally, we want to create a better and stronger internet presence for China. We can do this and help you out with Link It Forward, a unique way we’ve created to build a stronger internet presence and network throughout China.

Join us on our journey to give China and its people an electronic introduction to the global internet community.

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