MBA Leadership and Management: Lead from Shanghai, China
Build your next chapter without leaving the city where you are building your career. The MBA Leadership and Management, offered online in an exclusive partnership between York St John University and Robert Kennedy College, gives you the opportunity to develop your leadership and management knowledge while living in Shanghai, China. Its ideas and frameworks can be applied across international business settings.
Earn a British Degree with International Recognition
A British degree can be a valuable credential when your ambitions extend beyond one city or country. This MBA is awarded by York St John University, allowing you to pursue a British qualification while continuing your life and work in Shanghai.
For professionals who collaborate across borders, an internationally recognised degree can help communicate the level and focus of their studies to colleagues and employers around the world. You can bring that learning into conversations about leadership, strategy and organisational change wherever your career takes you.
Study 100% Online in as Little as One Year
You do not need to relocate or put your career on hold to pursue this MBA. The programme can be completed entirely online, with a route to completion in as little as one year.
That possibility makes it easier to connect your studies with your current ambitions. As you explore new concepts, you can reflect on the leadership challenges and opportunities you encounter in your working life.
Learn Without Fixed Online Attendance Times
Your schedule may change from week to week. The programme does not require you to be online at specific times or dates, giving you room to plan your studies around work, family and other commitments.
Whether your most productive hours are early mornings or late evenings in Shanghai, you can establish a study routine that works for you. Flexible access helps you keep moving towards your goal without depending on a fixed class timetable.
Take Your Learning Wherever You Go
Study from Shanghai, elsewhere in China or another part of the world. Because the programme is online, your learning can travel with you when business or personal plans take you away from home.
The mobile app lets you download study materials and watch lectures offline. A journey or a quiet moment while travelling can become an opportunity to revisit an idea and keep your studies moving forward.
Show Your Thinking Through Open-Book Assessments
The programme uses open-book assessments instead of classical question-and-answer exams. You can draw on learning materials as you develop your responses, with an emphasis on engaging with ideas rather than recalling them under traditional exam conditions.
This approach gives you an opportunity to practise organising information, weighing perspectives and presenting a reasoned argument—habits that matter when navigating complex management decisions.
Learn with Faculty Educated at Renowned Universities
Tutors and faculty include graduates of world-renowned universities such as Oxford, Harvard, EPFL, the University of Basel and Washington University in St. Louis. Their varied academic backgrounds can introduce you to different perspectives on leadership and management.
As you work through the programme, you can test your assumptions and deepen your understanding of ideas with international relevance. That breadth of perspective is especially valuable when your aspirations reach across teams, sectors and borders.
Join a Truly International Learning Community
Students come from over 130 countries, creating opportunities to encounter viewpoints shaped by different industries, cultures and professional experiences. Studying alongside this international community can help you think more broadly about how leadership works in different settings.
Alumni work for international organisations including ICBC Bank, CITIC, HSBC, Bosch, Nestlé, Unilever, Daimler, BMW, Audi, GM, Louis Vuitton, Bayer, Tencent, JKFZ Cambridge International School, RYB Education, CNOOC, Sinopec, PetroChina, AIA, ICBC Standard Bank, SAIC, the United Nations, Google, the ICRC, the World Bank, Microsoft, Intel, Samsung, Siemens and Sony. These examples illustrate the wide range of organisations represented by the alumni community, not a guarantee of employment.
Plan Your Investment with Monthly Instalments
The programme’s fees can be paid in up to 18 monthly interest-free instalments. This option can help you spread the cost over time as you plan your studies.
With a payment schedule you can consider alongside your other commitments, you can focus on what you want to gain from the MBA: stronger management knowledge, broader perspective and the confidence to pursue your next step.
Bring a Global Leadership Perspective to Shanghai
Shanghai’s financial services sector brings together organisations operating in fast-moving, interconnected markets. For graduates working in banking, insurance or related services, the programme’s leadership and management frameworks can offer ways to think through change, coordinate teams and approach complex decisions.
The city is also a major centre for trade, logistics and advanced manufacturing, including the automotive industry. If your work involves suppliers, operations or cross-border partnerships, you may find opportunities to apply what you have learned to collaboration, organisational priorities and the management of change.
Shanghai’s technology and professional services communities offer further possibilities for graduates who want to lead people and projects in evolving organisations. Wherever your path leads, an MBA grounded in internationally applicable theory can help you bring a wider perspective to the opportunities in front of you.
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