Recently, Liaoning University’s MBA program has been awarded a five-star certification in the globally authoritative higher education evaluation system QS STARS, relying on its excellent teaching quality, innovative training system and international presence. The certification is not only a high recognition of the educational achievements of Liaoning University’s MBA program, but also the first such award-winning program among comprehensive universities in Northeast China and universities under the “Double First-Class” initiatives or “Project 211” initiatives in Liaoning. It marks that Liaoning University’s MBA education has officially entered the ranks of international first-class business education and sets a new benchmark for the internationalization of business education in Northeast China.
Authoritative Certification Demonstrates International Standards
QS Stars is launched by QS (Quacquarelli Symonds), a world-renowned higher education analysis institution. It, together with US News and THE, is known as the world’s three major university ranking systems. Its evaluation dimensions cover multiple core indicators such as teaching, facilities, employability, research and innovation and global participation. Through strict data analysis and expert review, it comprehensively measures the comprehensive strength of colleges and universities. The certification shows that Liaoning University’s MBA program has excellent educational strengths and competitiveness worldwide, and fully demonstrates its outstanding achievements as a training base for middle and senior business management talents and a high-quality brand.
Liaoning University’s MBA program has always adhered to the original aspiration of education and made continuous breakthroughs on the road of pursuing excellence. Over the years, the quality of the program has continuously received authoritative recognition: it was awarded the B + certification in the fourth round of national discipline evaluation and successfully passed the periodic qualification evaluation of degree authorization points from 2020 to 2025. In 2022, the program won the Best Organization Award of the 11th National Top 100 Excellent Management Cases, and the discipline of Business Administration to which the program belongs was selected into the “Double First-Class” Class A disciplines in Liaoning Province. In 2024, it even won the A + rating in the Alumni Association of China University Professional Ranking (Research-oriented). From discipline evaluation to case teaching, from “Double First-Class” to breakthroughs in international certification, every progress forward confirms the adherence of the team of Liaoning University’s MBA program to the original aspiration of education. In the future, the program will continue to deepen in the field of business education and repay the trust and expectation of all sectors of society with better results.
Profound Heritage Builds a Business Benchmark
Liaoning University was founded in 1948. It is the first specialized business college founded by the Communist Party of China. Now it is a key university under the national “Project 211” initiative and “Double First-Class” initiative. Its Business School has the same origin as the university. In 1995, it integrated relevant departments to establish the School of Business Administration, which was renamed the Business School in 2010. Now it has seven teaching departments and MBA and EMBA Education Centers, forming a complete system covering multi - level business talent training.
In order to cultivate new business talents who meet the requirements of high-quality economic development, Liaoning University’s MBA program has gradually refined and formed a real issue-based theory-practice-frontier trinity new business teaching model on the basis of continuously promoting teaching reform:
Theoretical Foundation
Liaoning Universitys MBA program is based on classic management theories that have been tested in practice, integrates multi-disciplinary knowledge, and consolidates students’ professional literacy through diversified and personalized systematic education, thus laying a solid theoretical foundation for analyzing and solving problems.
Practice Empowerment
It deeply promotes the integration of industries and education as well as the integration of science and education, cooperates with well-known enterprises in the industries to develop courses and build practice platforms, integrates real cases and business processes into teaching, and allows students to exercise and grow in a real business environment to achieve the organic integration of theory and practice.
Frontier Leadership
On the basis of cultivating students’ study of classic theories and improving their practical abilities, Liaoning University’s MBA program also takes into account students’ needs for academic further study and innovative development. It focuses on the new trends of discipline development and strives to cultivate students’ innovative thinking and exploration spirit. The program has established cooperation with well-known universities in Britain, the United States, Japan and other countries as well as in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions to cultivate students’ innovative thinking and international vision and help them with academic further study and innovative development
Guided by real issue-based teaching approach and taking the integration of industries and education as well as the integration of science and education, it promotes the innovation of talent training through a progressive training model and helps students grow into high-quality new business talents with both theoretical depth, practical ability and innovative vision.
Deeply Engaged in Education to Serve Regional Development
Liaoning University’s MBA program has always adhered to the school motto of Virtue, Erudition, Practice and Strength. Relying on the university’s profound academic heritage and resource advantages, it is committed to cultivating high-level management talents with international vision, innovative spirit and social responsibility. Since the first enrollment in 1998, Liaoning University’s MBA program has trained more than 5,000 compound management talents. Graduates are widely employed in banks, securities, accounting firms, large enterprises, colleges and universities, government departments and other fields, providing important talent support for the revitalization of the old industrial base in Northeast China.
Based in Liaoning, Going Global to Build a New Highland for Business Education
The acquisition of the QS five-star certification is a new starting point for the development of Liaoning University’s MBA program. In the future, the program will continue to deepen the reform of education and teaching, strengthen international cooperation and exchanges, improve the industry-university-research-application collaborative education mechanism, and strengthen university-enterprise collaborative innovation. It will take multiple measures to strive to build a new highland for business education and make greater contributions to serving regional economic and social development!
