Pre-MBA Program

Program Features:

This preparatory program is designed to provide students with an efficient pathway to the MBA master’s degree and offers targeted academic training for business professionals.

Designed For
  1. Students who wish to take business courses in advance at the undergraduate level to accommodate graduate programs
  2. Working professionals with certain management experience who do not meet the undergraduate degree requirement for MBA admission.
  3. Students who want to learn more about our MBA program, as well as business professionals who want to improve their comprehensive vocational skills or obtain professional academic training in specific fields

School Accreditation

The Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China Education Foreign-related Supervision Information Network is a special website of the Ministry of Education to release information on the supervision and management of various educational foreign-related activities.

SACSCOC is the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). It is one of the six regional university accreditations in the United States, which represents the highest level of accreditation in the United States, and has the most stringent academic and management requirements for universities.

CHEA is the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) of the U.S. Department of Education. It is the national organization for higher education accreditation and quality assurance by the U.S. Department of Education, and is authorized by the Department of Education to recognize other similar institutions and organizations.

Authoritative U.S. Media Ratings

CIU’s lifelong learning philosophy and online course research and development have enjoyed a century-old reputation in North America, and it has ranked first in South Carolina in the development of online courses for many years.

Forbes ADVISOR ranks No. 1 in Best Online Colleges in South Carolina in 2024

South Carolina’s online course development has been ranked #1 year after year by BEST COLLEGES

According to U.S. News & World Report’s Southern Regional University Rankings, it is ranked in the top 50 comprehensive university rankings. Ranked as one of the best value universities in the southern region for many years in a row.

Learning style

There are two live interactive Q&A sessions taught personally by professors, where students can communicate with professors in Chinese without any language barriers.

Online Recorded Video Course: The course lasts 8 weeks with 8 sessions, taught in Chinese by the professor. Students can log into the learning platform for self-study during the course period. There are three exams, each with 20–25 multiple-choice questions, and students have two attempts per exam.

Start Date

Spring 2025 Semester — Second Course Study Period: March 10 to May 2

Foundation Course: “Business Management Economics”
Professor: He Jianwei
Study Period: March 10 – May 2

Participation in the Foundation Year will benefit you in the following ways

Professional business education

Carefully selected business foundation courses provide students with a solid foundation in business theory and applied practice

Bridging academic gaps

To provide the necessary academic preparation for students whose academic qualifications or background do not yet fully meet the admission criteria for an MBA master’s degree program

Enhance competitiveness in the workplace

Through the study of professional business courses, working people can consolidate their basic professional abilities and achieve greater breakthroughs and improvements

Meet a group of mentors and friends

Teachers and alumni of the century-old school who share the same mission and values can experience the holistic education culture of “influencing life with life” of the professors who serve humbly based on the mission

Q&A

Does the Kepha MBA preparatory program offer credits? Will there be a transcript?

There are no credits for this program, but transcripts are available. Students who score above 75 points in all three examinations will receive non-credit MBA Preparatory Courses Transcripts, which can be used as a reference for further admission to our MBA program.

Can I be admitted directly to an MBA program after studying a foundation program? Can I transfer credits to MBA programs?

The Foundation Program may not be directly admitted to the MBA program, and the credits cannot be transferred to the MBA’s formal degree program, but it can provide preparatory training and priority under the same application conditions for applicants for the Kepha MBA degree.

Tuition

\$200 per course, supports online payment in RMB.

How to Apply

  1. Fill out the application form
  2. Configure a learning account
  3. Pay for the lesson

Contact email: kepha@ciu.edu
Please add the admissions counselor on WeChat to apply. WeChat ID: kepha3

MBA Preparatory Course Overview

Financial and Management Accounting for Decision Making

Kun Wang

Adjunct Professor of Accounting
  • He is currently a professor of accounting at Texas Southern University
  • Doctor of Accounting, Texas A&M University, USA
  • Master of Accounting, Beijing Technology and Business University
  • He used to be a teacher at the University of International Business and Economics, a Chinese certified public accountant, and a certified trainer for accounting qualifications, with more than 20 years of experience in scientific research and teaching

Course Description:

A successful business manager needs to understand how to properly interpret and use accounting information in the process of planning, controlling, evaluating and making decisions.

This course introduces the importance of accounting information in modern business management from the perspective of financial accounting and management accounting, and helps students master and flexibly use the main management accounting methods to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of business operations. For example: the selection of cost accounting system under different business modes, cost-benefit analysis, short-term decision-making analysis and budget formulation, etc.

At the same time, the course will also include a discussion of accounting ethics, as well as the challenges and development opportunities brought by artificial intelligence and informatization to the accounting industry.

Course Outline

Week 1: Introduction to the course, presentation of financial statements and preparation methodology

Week 2: Accounting Equations and Accounting Cycles

Week 3: Cost Classification and Cost Concepts

Week 4: Costing, Batch Costing

Week 5: Cost Behavior and Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis

Week 6: Overall budget development and management

Week 7: Departmental performance review

Week 8: Capital Budgeting Decisions

Textbook Information

Management Accounting (16th Edition)

Authors: Ray Garrison, Eric Noreen, Peter Brewer

Translator: Man Wang

Publisher: Machinery Industry Press

Student Reviews:

Ethan Yang

Spring 2023 student

This course taught me how to look at a company's annual report to understand the health of the company, and how to use some tools to value the business. There are some methods that can be used to evaluate the future value of your investment in a project, such as whether it is more cost-effective to rent or buy a house in your current economic situation, etc., which is a course that can be immediately put into practice!

Ethan Yang

Spring 2023 student

In 2021, I started my own entrepreneurial path, and when I heard that the school had launched an MBA program, I signed up to participate in the study, hoping to avoid detours on my entrepreneurial path. In the first semester of the "Financial and Management Accounting for Decision-making" course, I learned that there are too many uncontrollable factors affecting us in the real business environment. Through the study of the course, it helps me to make more rational and scientific judgments and trade-offs.

Ethan Yang

Student in the Fall 2022 class

My company does training, how do I price a course product when it's launched? I used to pat my head and think, everyone thought it was about the same, so I set a price.
The cost-benefit analysis in the course "Financial and Management Accounting for Decision-making" has brought me new ideas, and I have learned to analyze the cost structure, judge the pricing strategy and other key operations. In the past, we relied on intuition to make decisions, but now with scientific tools and methods, we will get practical help and achieve better benefits when we operate!
MBA Preparatory Course Overview

Human Resource Management

Guohua Huang

Adjunct Professor of Human Resource Management
  • He is currently an Associate Professor and Programme Director of Human Resource Management at Hong Kong Baptist University, teaching in the Department of Management, Marketing and Consulting Systems
    Ph.D. in Management, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • His research interests are organizational behavior and human resource management

Course Description

Human resource management is a core course of business administration, which has a certain degree of theory and policy, and has a strong practical nature.

The course covers topics such as an overview of human resource management, human resource planning, job analysis and competency modeling, recruitment and selection, training and development, career management, performance management, new compensation management, and employee relations and labor relations management.

The purpose of the course is to enable students to have a comprehensive grasp of the nature, methods and skills of human resource management, and to improve their management ability to better achieve the purpose of promoting employee well-being and organizational competitiveness.

The teaching methods of the course are mainly online real-time and non-real-time forms of theoretical explanations, class discussions, case studies, and after-class group discussions and exercises.

Course Outline

Week 1: Overview of Human Resource Management

Week 2: Human Resource Planning

Week 3: Fundamentals of Human Resource Management

Week 4: Talent Recruitment, Talent Selection

Week 5: Talent Training & Development, Career Management

Week 6: Performance Management, Compensation Management

Week 7: Employee Relations Management, Labor Relations Management

Week 8: Global Human Resource Management, Trends and Challenges of Human Resource Management

Textbook Information

Introduction to Human Resource Management (3rd Edition)

Author: Jianfeng Peng

Publisher: Fudan University Press

Student Reviews

Joe Wu

Student in the Fall 2022 class

I am currently responsible for HSBC's Private Wealth Planning Guangdong Dongguan Branch, and as a key city, I need to recruit 60 private wealth planners in the next year. As a new first-tier city, Dongguan is still relatively short of talents, which brings great challenges to recruitment.
In Prof. Guohua Huang's Human Resource Management course, our group discussed and explored my solutions to my recruitment challenges. Drawing on theories such as competency model, "personnel-position" matching, and "personnel-organization" matching, the candidates' professional competency, work experience and company culture fit are comprehensively examined through online assessments, interviews and other links. With the help of third-party professional channels such as headhunting agencies, the number and quality of recruitment have increased.
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