Peking University Guanghua MBA "X Plan" 22 years of major reform, in-depth interpretation of the future MBA talent selection trend

2022 has just begun, and the Peking University Guanghua MBA has updated the enrollment publicity of the X plan project for the new year for the first time. This is arguably the most transformative year in recent years. Program X itself is geared towards a very, very niche group and enrollment is very small, and how it is reformed will not affect the normal MBA applications that are now available. However, the continuous attempts and reforms of Plan X in recent years are a test field for business schools to explore the direction of development, and through the changes in Plan X, we can explore and reason about the tendency of the future Peking University Guanghua MBA in admissions.

Let's first look at the comparison of eligibility in recent years:

Year 2019:

1. Senior and Graduate School Students (Full-time)

2. Excellent grades

3. Applicants with internship or entrepreneurial experience are preferred

Remarks: Grade rankings, foreign language proficiency, school awards, qualifications, social practice and internship experience will all become important references.

Interview in English, followed by a full-time MBA.

2020, 2021

1. Students in the last year of undergraduate graduation (full-time)

2. Academic performance of the top 10% of the major; with excellent internship experience, international/domestic competition award certificate, overseas study exchange background, student organization management experience or entrepreneurial experience, the learning ranking requirements can be appropriately relaxed.

Year 2022:

1. Full-time undergraduate, master's and doctoral students in the final year.

2. Outstanding performance during the school period, or entrepreneurial experience, or international/domestic competition award certificate (including cultural and sports events, various competitions, etc.), or student organization management experience.

If the interview format is not determined, the follow-up study of full-time or part-time MBA can be selected. (Estimated full-time interview in English, part-time may be combined in Chinese and English)

Valid applications are valid until 2028, with a 6-year interval and no distinction between full-time and part-time. It was all 4 years before.

Summary of changes:

1. Enrollment has expanded from undergraduate to unprecedented Ph.D. students. Master's, doctoral, most are not willing to go off-the-job to study full-time and then have an MBA. It is not excluded that this part-time entry is to consider the consideration of master's and doctoral talents.

2. Grades in school have become more blurred from a clearer threshold, while descriptions of having won various special events are richer, i.e. if there is a specialty during college, any academic achievement will no longer be a rigid threshold.

Personal judgment:

First of all, the career plan of many people who graduated from the generation after 2000 is to be an undergraduate school, a famous business management trainee/ consulting investment bank for 3-4 years, and then pursue an MBA master's degree from a famous university, and then usher in a new take-off in the workplace after graduation. With the 2015 years later, the domestic high-paying industry financial Internet fresh graduate threshold is getting higher and higher, graduate students have become the standard to find a job, that is, the so-called excellent top undergraduate students do not have too many reliable jobs, forcing more and more outstanding graduates in the market, are directly to study the master's degree, in order to find the top enterprise freshmanship, and this makes the standard career route that has been applicable for 20 years, more and more inapplicable to China's national conditions, That is, the future full-time MBA in China must be a very compressed state. In contrast, overseas undergraduates are more suitable for working overseas for several years after graduation, returning to China to study for a full-time MBA, solving domestic adaptation problems and expanding domestic circle contacts.

Secondly, the enrollment styles of Tsinghua Management and Peking University Guanghua are becoming more and more differentiated. From the perspective of student preferences, Tsinghua attaches great importance to the background of famous schools, achievements in school, and learning ability, and the background weight is greater, and from the perspective of training space, people with outstanding academic backgrounds are more assured of the relative upward space after the training of Tsinghua. Peking University reflects the characteristics of inclusiveness, Peking University's understanding may be that achievements are important, but in today's society, pure academic bullying may be no problem, but in the business field may not be equally outstanding, with special characteristics, than the same template of academic bullying is more likely to become a future business leader. It is often said in society that the first place in the class may not be the best in the workplace, but often the 10 or so in the middle and upper reaches have achieved greater achievements. Peking University's model may cultivate the top entrepreneurs, with a higher upper limit, such as the founder of Bubble Mart, who is a 2014 alumnus of Peking University, and in the case that the learning ability is not so tight compared to Tsinghua's requirements, the lower limit of the harvest may also be lower.

In addition, Peking University in the X plan enrollment brochure, a very rare large-scale expansion of self-marketing of the teacher force and training program, which has never been in the previous years of enrollment brochures, in previous years, the words such as gold give people a feeling that Peking University two words is enough. This year, I feel that I want to put down my body and really let people see the advantages of Peking University's project, and a picture of the joint course highlights the preference for financial and consulting management capabilities in this plan. I personally think this is not to say that the school recruits people with similar financial and consulting preferences, but that as a future entrepreneur or entrepreneur, the professional skills in the industry are not provided by the business school, and the use and understanding of financial tools and the use of management knowledge are the business schools that can help the talents to greatly empower and improve.

For Peking University's innovation in Plan X, we can see that Peking University pays regardless of results, and this pattern of exporting talents to the society is still very admirable. After successfully applying for the Peking University X Program, students can enjoy the cultivation and network resources of Peking University in the early stage of their career development in 5-7 years, but they may not necessarily pay tuition fees in the future to apply for Peking University Guanghua's MBA program. From the perspective of resource maximization, there will definitely be some people who will enjoy the resources of Peking University and then apply to other schools and obtain the alumni circle of two schools at a time. Knowing this possibility, Peking University can still insist on increasing investment, reflecting the sense of social responsibility of top schools.

Regarding the application, the problem of applying for short essays in the admissions system has not changed, the difference is that the full-time application is filled in English, and the part-time Chinese filled in. The topics are as follows:

Please briefly describe the experience and harvest of internships or practical activities at the undergraduate or postgraduate level, the study plan at the MBA level, the direction of employment after graduation, and the career plan for three to five years after graduation (candidates who choose a full-time MBA program should fill in English and no more than 4500 characters).

In the actual system, a word display is added by one byte, and 4500 Chinese words can be written. This word count can be said to be more than 3,000 words in the five MBA application questions combined, which is a very large essay question. For fresh graduates at the student level, it is not easy to write the highlights.