In March 2015, China Scholarship Council (CSC) awarded SEM with sponsorships for its three excellent undergraduate non-degree programs with its partner schools, ESSEC Business School, King’s College London, and Arizona State University. So far, SEM has 12 undergraduate non-degree programs with 23 student slots to be sponsored by CSC for students’ overseas study.

Since 2013, SEM has sent 14 undergraduates for semester exchange obtaining CSC scholarship. Besides, in postgraduate level, 33 SEM postgraduates have been awarded CSC scholarship to pursue double degree in SEM’s partner schools.

In addition, SEM has set up its own scholarship to fund students’ study abroad in order to broaden their vision of internationalization. Around 1 million yuan has been spent to support more than 40 SEM students for the exchange programs since 2012.

CSC Excellent Undergraduate Non-degree Program was launched in 2013, with its target to encourage students from top Chinese universities in 985 Projects and 211 Projects to go abroad for further study. Round trip airfare tickets and monthly subsidies will be covered by CSC when the students are studying abroad.

At the moment, SEM has signed agreements with 70 more international partners, and the total exchange opportunities amount to over 300. Among those exchange programs, there are partnerships with top business schools like, IE Business School from Spain, Weatherhead School of Management from Case Western Reserve University from US, Carey School of Business of Arizona State University from US, St. Gallen University from Switzerland, TUM and Mannheim from Germany, ESSEC, ESCP Europe and EM Lyon from France, and Rotterdam School of Management of Erasmus University,.