Curriculum Structure

New specialized tracks offered in 2025: Technology and Leadership

Starting with the Class of 2025, the FMBA Programme will introduce two new specializations: Technology and Leadership. Each track combines compulsory and elective courses, allowing students to tailor their learning to their career aspirations.

Technology Specialization

This track cultivates a tech-driven mindset, helping students understand and apply emerging technologies—including fintech, AI, big data, and blockchain—across industries. Students will identify tech-driven business opportunities and explore innovative, tech-enabled business models.

Leadership Specialization

Building on our Leadership Journey, this track enhances students’ leadership capabilities. Through structured self-assessment, students will identify their strengths and weaknesses while developing execution, inspiration, and motivational skills. These competencies prepare them to lead teams, drive change, address challenges, and achieve organizational goals.

This two-year programme shapes students into well-rounded leaders with a strong foundation in finance, strategic management expertise, and the ability to embrace technological innovation.

Compulsory Courses

Core Module

Finance / Accounting
   Financial Accounting
   Corporate Finance
   Investments
   Managerial Accounting
Management / Marketing
   Organizational Behavior
   Strategy Management
   Marketing
   Leadership and Change
Economics / Decision Science
   Economics
   Information Technology and Decision Analysis
   China and the Global Economy
Residential Module
   Opening Module
   Graduation Module

Group Project

The Group Project is an integral part of the curriculum. In Group Project you will apply management theories and framework learned in the classroom to real-world business issues. You will work in a small group to complete a project over a one-year period. This project will include attending an introductory lecture, topic selection, outlining your proposal, writing and revising your report, and giving an oral defence.

Elective Courses

Finance-oriented Electives

Corporate Finance
   Financial Statement Analysis
   Mergers and Acquisitions
   Internal Control and Risk Management
Quantitative Finance
   Quantitative Investment
   Derivatives
   Analytics of Finance
Investments
   Wealth Management in China
   Basic Principle of Machine Learning and Investment Case Analysis
Others
   Fintech and Digital Transformation
   Analysis of Trending Economic and Financial Issues
   The Major Tension and Steady Development of China's Financial System
   Supply Chain Financing
   ESG Finance

Leadership Excellence

   Public Opinion Orientation in the Omni-media Era
   Negotiation Skills
   Selected Topics on the Art of War
   Performance Management: Design and leadership of high performing organizations
   Leadership: From "I" to "We"
   Selected Topics on the Confucian School

Frontier Thinking

   Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
   Corporate Strategy in Digital Revolution: from Web2 to Web3
   Blockchain Technology, Digital Assets and Financial Services
   Digital Intelligence in Marketing and Growth
   Market Design and Application in the Digital Age
   Decision Psychology
   The Competitiveness of Enterprises under Globalization
   Real-world Political Economy
   Customer Insights and Product Design: From an Evolutionary Perspective

Overseas Module

About One week. The CEIBS FMBA Program Department offers several overseas study tours to build bridges for students across national borders.

Europe module

London module

Silicon Valley module

Wall Street module

 

Cross course elective courses


Gobi Leadership
Three Wave Strategy: How to Achieve Sustainable and Profitable Growth
Efficient Leadership: from Chinese Cultural Perspectives
Contradiction Management and Integrated Thinking
Marketing in the Digital Age: New Thinking on Consumer Transformation and Customer Operations
Industrial Internet Platformization Strategy - Methodology of Industry Rework
Industrial Development and Competition Analysis
Brand Strategy in the Digital Age

We actively promote integrated learning across programs. While priority for finance-related electives is given to FMBA students, these courses are also open to students from other CEIBS degree programs. Conversely, FMBA students may select electives offered by other programs, subject to availability.

 

Leadership Journey


Leadership cultivation is a deep and continuous process that requires transcending theoretical learning and gradually building through daily practice and reflection. The leadership journey of  FMBA progresses gradually, using techniques to guide students on a path of self-awareness, practical skills, reflection, and unleashing potential in leadership cultivation. It encourages students to continuously improve and form a spiral upward trajectory of leadership growth.

The above courses are for reference only, please refer to the actual schedule.