The grand ceremony of Tsinghua-MIT Management Education Project 10th Anniversary was held in Tsinghua SEM from July 14 to 15. As one of China's earliest international management education collaborations, this decade-long project between MIT Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan) and Tsinghua School of Economics and Management (Tsinghua SEM) has changed the course of management education in China as well as defined its future development.

Professor Cheng Siwei, Deputy Director of National People’s Congress Standing Committee, was invited to give a keynote speech in the opening ceremony. Professor Richard Schmalensee, Dean of MIT Sloan, Professor He Jiankun, Dean of Tsinghua SEM and several other deans from both parties attended the ceremony. Other distinguished guests included deans from 43 domestic management schools and advisory board members who have constantly supported the collaborative project in the last decade.

Business administration education, as a highly market-oriented discipline closely linked with the nation's economic development, has been influenced by the wave of globalization in the most fundamental and deep manner during the last decade. As the main theme of this anniversary "Defining Decade” implies, this 10th anniversary does not only serve as a milestone for the decade-long collaboration between Tsinghua SEM and MIT Sloan but also witnesses the remarkable accomplishment that China's management education has achieved at the frontier of the nation’s educational globalization.

Professor He, Dean of Tsinghua SEM addressed in his speech that the decade when Tsinghua SEM achieved its rapid development was the very decade when Tsinghua kept an effective and sustainable cooperation with every of his world-class counterparts; it was also the very decade when Tsinghua SEM was brave enough to draw on any experiences from any advanced management education institutions all around the world. International collaboration has become the driving force as well as precious resource for Tsinghua SEM's rapid development. And particularly, the cooperation with MIT Sloan has helped Tsinghua SEM achieve its most tremendous and fundamental improvement in faculty construction and student development

The two-day-long celebration consists of three parts: Commencement of Tsinghua SEM's Class 2006 International MBA， Dean's Forum and Alumni Day. Dean Schmalensee and Dean He will issue diplomas to 120 International MBA graduates this year. 500 International MBA alumni will return to campus on July 15, to participate two forums titled "China’s Development in a Changing World" and "Global Manufacturing - China Dreams for Global Firms and Global Dreams of China Firms".

Among all the collaborative projects with MIT Sloan, The Tsinghua IMBA Program, launched in 1997, aims to turn out high-level management talents for international business administration. Students from different culture backgrounds gathering in the same class with opportunity to participate in the MBA Student Exchange Program to study in top-notch business schools overseas, to better understand political, economic and cultural issues of different countries and to gain access to real international business practices. After ten years’ development, it has become China and even Asia’s most prestigious international MBA program, as commented by former Dean Zhao Chunjun “the role model for collaboration between domestic and foreign higher education institutions.”