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…

Guide for Chinese Students 如果你想留学美国《本科学习》

Here you can download the guide to studying in the USA.The guides will help you to apply for training and visas relating to 《本科学习》是美国国务院编撰的四册一套引介从书种的第一册。这套丛书是向希望到美国学习的国际学生和学者提供客观和实际的。本书介绍如何选择和申请美国本科学位和职业学校教育机会的信息。

美国有三千六百多所学院和大学提供本科学位。这本小册子将告诉你如何准备成功的大学申请材料（第八章和第九章）以及签证的申请过程（第十一章）。一旦获得录取，你一定想知道抵达美国的时候应该期望些什么，我们给你提供了这方面的提示（第十二章）。这本小册子最后的术语汇编向你解释你在申请到美国留学时会经常碰到的一些词和用语。

本册的内容还包括美国的本科教育，学院大学、学位日历、系统、课程、社区学院、大学生活方式、费用住宿、环境、学校规模、入学要求、奖学金，转学，签证申请等等。

详细信息，可以下载以下资料。

Download Here:

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……

Read on »

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….

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.

One of the many goals of the China Dreamblogue is to create a strong, pro-China internet presence in the blogosphere. To do this, we need your help. And as we create our pro-China network, we would also like to help the people who want to be part of this network by giving them a way to increase their SEO power and their ability to monetize their site. Sound complicated and difficult? The process is deceptively simple and powerful.

We’ve created an idea called link it forward. Similar to the internet memes and the Thinking Blog tag that recently moved through a number of English-language blogs about China, our idea will travel rapidly through pro-China blogs. In addition, this idea will help to create links–as many as four thousand–to your site through a trickle-down method.

There are five simple steps:

1. Take this list of 8 blogs and put them in a post on your blog. The first three blogs, Onemanbandwidth, The China Dreamblogue, and Sinotrading, remain on the list.
2. At the top of the moveable list, put a link to your blog.
3. Remove the link from the bottom of blog.
4. Send your updated list to at least five other people.
5. If you want, create a new moveable list of five blogs you think deserve some links. Be kind and include the permanent list as well.

Perma-List:

• Onemanbandwidth
• The China Dreamblogue
• Sinotrading

The Moveable list:

• The Hao Hao Report
• East South North West
• The Cal Poly MBA Trip
• China Law Blog
• The Opposite End of China

The numbers work out well for you. You will have approximately five rounds on the list. On the first round, you’ll get five links. On the second, you’ll get 25 (each of the five people you sent the list to will get five more people to put your link on their site). The third round nets you 125, the fourth 525, and the fifth 2,625. Your grand total (should everyone follow Link it Forward) will be 3,305 links. And if you get linked to again by another blog, you can start the process all over again to earn another 3,000 links.

To monetize your blog or site please click on the links found on the front page of this blog.

China Dreamblogue的其中一个目标是在因特网上创建一个强大的，支持中国的互联网。实现这个目标，我们需要你的帮助。在我们建造我们中国的友好互联网的同时，我们将会帮助那些支持我们的人，把他们的博客推到网络排名的最前列。这个过程既简单又有效。

我们已经有一个构想，称为“链接在一起”（Link it Forward），与“网络媒母”（internet memes）相类似。“Link it Forward”（ 链接在一起）会以很快的速度在支持中国的博客上移动。另外，这个构想可以使你的网站的链接数量增加几千个以上。

以下是六个简单的步骤：

1. 按照以下的说明列两组博客的目录然后放到您的博客上。第一组名单是三个固定的博客：Onemanbandwidth, The China Dreamblogue, 和Sinotrading。这三个博客的连接必须永远的保留和不可改变。
2. 在第二组上，把您自己的博客连接放在目录的第一位上。
3. 把所有在第二组目录上的连接排名依次向下移动一位。即排第一的移到第二位，排第二的移到第三位等等（第五位的移到第一位）。
4. 这就是说排第五的应该要完成一个循坏回到第五的位置上。
5. 将你的更新了的列表发给至少5个其他博客。您发的越多，您就能获得更多的链接。如果您有一百个人，那就快点去做吧。
6. 如果您想的话，还可以另外创建一个您认为有价值的列表。请也同样包括那个不变名单（即onemanbandwidth, china dreamblogue 和 sinotrading）

请记住，不要改动或者改变第一组名单和不要在第二组名单上加上第六个链接。同样，通过第一组名单所得到的广告收益将用作慈善用途。而从第二组“link it forward”上所得的收益将有您自己支配。我们会为您列举一些能够推算您自己网站价值的地方。

第一组（长期不变得目录）：

Onemanbandwidth

The China Dreamblogue

Sinotrading

第二组（可更新的目录）：

您的博客

您朋友的博客

如果理想的话，您大约会有比从前翻5倍的链接量。

第一个循环，您会得到5个链接。

第二个循环您会得到25个链接（跟您建立链接的那5个人每人会给您带来5个新的链接）

第三个循环您会有125个链接，第四个有625，第五个有3，125个。

如果每个人都按照Link it Forward的方法，您最后会得到3，905个链接。如果您同时又跟其他博客建立同种方法的链接，您将会得到另外3，000多个的链接。有了这上千个的 连接，您就能从Google Adwords（Google搜索引擎营销）那里得到相应的收益了。现在就请按本页底部的Google Adwords按钮来看一下您的网站的价值吧。

这是为了兴趣；这是为了提高中国博客在西方搜索引擎的排名；这更是为了中国的慈善事业出一分力（因为限定组中的3个博客将会把全部广告收益捐献给中国的慈善机构）；同样也能增加中国博客在互联网上的知名度。

让我们一起link it forward(链接在一起)吧！