On the 16^th of October, after a whole day onsite visit and peer review, Tongji SEM officially becomes the 1^st member of EDAMBA（European Doctoral Programs Association in Management & Business Administration） in China. This is another great step for Tongji SEM’s internationalization of SEM’s business school education and its PhD student’s cultivation.

In July, SEM launched the application for EDAMBA. The application received unanimous approval by the Executive Committee of EDAMBA. In late August, Prof. RUAN Qingsong, Deputy Dean and Ms. WU Boning, Assistant Dean, attended the annual meeting of EDAMBA on behalf of Tongji SEM. Prof. RUAN briefed the development of SEM and its PhD programs. On 16^th of Oct, the chairman of EDAMBA, Prof. Dimitris Assimakopoulos, faculty of EMLYON Business School, France, and Prof. John Ulhøi, faculty of Universitas Arhusiensis, Denmark, visited Tongji SEM and did onsite visit and interview with its faculty and administrative staffs. Prof. JIN Fu-an, Senior Deputy Dean of SEM, met with the two guests on behalf of the school.

After communication with SEM’s management team, PhD supervisors, PhD candidates and graduates, and administrative staffs, the two guests gave a high appraisal to the development strategy of SEM’s PhD programs, teaching and research level of PhD supervisors, academic quality of PhD programs, and the internationalization. The two parties did an active discussion on the cultivating of Sino-Euro joint PhD program, co-coaching of PhD students, developing of young PhD supervisors and the application for financial supports of joint research from European Union.

Internationalization of PhD student cultivation is a significant trend of business school development. After acquiring several international accreditations, namely AACSB、EQUIS、AMBA and PMI-GAC, SEM has become the 1^st member of EDAMBA in China. SEM will fasten the internationalization development of PhD student cultivation by combining international accreditations’ and associations’ diversified channels and high-quality resources with our own strengths. PhD students’ research ability will be enhanced through inviting professors from top overseas universities to be our adjunct faculty or PhD supervisors. Joint research publication of papers will be realized by co-coaching PhD students to carry out scientific research. Career development channels will be expanded by PhD graduates recommendation channels. Young faculty team will be enhanced by employing excellent PhD graduates.

EDAMBA, ‘European Doctoral Programmes Association in Management and Business Administration’, is an international non-profit making association founded in 1991. It aims at promoting and facilitating cooperation among Doctoral Programmes in Management and Business Administration. Its members are from more than 30 countries in North America, South America and Asia Pacific, including top 10 business schools in European, such as London Business School in UK, Essec Business school in France, ESADE in Spain and Rotterdam School of Management in Holland.