On the afternoon of December 17th, Mr. Shi Donghui, Development Director in China District of Audencia Business School came to visit the School of Business of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies(GDUFS). Zhu Wenzhong, Executive Dean of the School of Business, and Liang Jie, the Associate Dean, welcomed Director Shi at the office of MBA education center.

Director Shi introduced the development profile and major setting of Audencia Business School as well as its cooperative progress with other Chinese colleges and universities at present. Professor Zhu Wenzhong, the Executive Dean, introduced the overall development level and project futures of our school, such as international innovation class for undergraduates and full English teaching in MBA education center. During the talk, both sides reached the consensus on Corporation Social Responsibility(CSR), and exchanged ideas about China-Foreign cooperative projects developed by the two universities. At the same time, the possibility of cooperation is deeply discussed on exchange visit of teachers and students between two universities, “3+2” undergraduates plus postgraduates program, “1+1” MBA double degree program and doctor program.

Background Information:

Established in 1900, Audencia Business School has become one of the top-level business schools through more than 100 years of development. Audencia was accredited successively by the Association of MBAs(AMBA), the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business(AACSB) and European Quality Improvement System(EQUIS), the three global authoritative business school accreditations (only 1% management schools in the world has passed the three accreditations simultaneously) and as an elite university, Audencia is the first to accredited by AACSB.

Its MSC in management-engineering is rated 28th in the world and among top 5 in the field of CSR by the Financial Times. Its MBA in Responsible Management has been classed in the top 100 in the world for 8 years in a row by the Economist and even listed as the 52nd by CNN. Audencia has kept good cooperative relationships with almost 130 well-known universities over the world; it has sent a large number of excellent management talents to top enterprises in the world and Europe every year.