Professor Micheal LUGER, Dean of Manchester Business School (MBS), visited Tongji University on October 15^th, with the accompany of Mr. Nigel BANISTER, CEO of MBS. Prof. CHEN Yiyi, Vice President of Tongji University, met with two guests and expressed on behalf of Tongji the support to the newly-launched dual degree MBA programme between MBS and SEM. Dean HUO Jiazhen, Vice Dean Wang Guangbin and the Programme Director Liz WU from SEM attended the meeting.

After a series of meetings since August 2008, SEM and MBS signed an MOU in July 2009. The first Tongji-Manchester MBA dual degree programme was officially launched in September this year.