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For Chinese Women, U.S. MBAs Are All the Rage
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For Chinese Women, U.S. MBAs Are All the Rage
Seeking an edge in the job market, Chinese women are flocking to U.S. B-
schools—enough to boost female enrollment overall
By Alison Damast
(Corrects name of company where Crystal Ma will be interning this summer.)
Gail Hu first considered an MBA degree in the U.S. while a student at Fudan
University in Shanghai. After three years as a bank trader, she entered the
Stanford Graduate School of Business to gain international exposure so that
she can help Chinese companies grow.
"I'll have an edge," Hu, 26, said in an interview.
Hu is part of a wave of women from China, Taiwan, and Vietnam pursuing U.S.
MBAs, and their numbers are driving up the overall number of women in such
programs, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council, the Reston
(Va.)-based group that administers the GMAT test for business school
applicants. Last year, a record 105,900 women took the exam, or 40 percent
of all test takers. Women now outnumber men in East Asia taking the test,
according to a council report.
"Countries are investing more intensively in women, and business schools are
making efforts to make it easier for women to think about their programs,"
said Michelle Sparkman-Renz, GMAC's director of research communications.
"That really continues to turn the spigot so that more and more women are
coming through the pipeline."
At Stanford University (Stanford Full-Time MBA Profile), near Palo Alto,
Calif., women made up 39 percent of this year's entering MBA class, said
Lisa Giannangeli, director of graduate business admissions. For the past few
years, the school has hosted a conference for female applicants to learn
about the program. This year's event attracted women from China, Japan,
Peru, Spain, and Russia, Giannangeli said.
CHINA, INDIA
Women from mainland China are helping boost female enrollment in U.S. MBA
programs, said Elissa Ellis-Sangster, director of the Forté Foundation, a
group of 36 business schools working to increase the number of women MBAs.
Members include Harvard Business School (Harvard Full-Time MBA Profile),
University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Booth Full-Time MBA
Profile), and University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School (Wharton Full-Time
MBA Profile).
In an April survey, 13 of 14 Forté member schools said China or India
accounted for the largest number of overseas women in their classes, Ellis-
Sangster said.
"The companies that we work with are very interested in seeing more of these
Chinese women in MBA programs because they want to ultimately have them
return to their home countries and work for the conglomerates and large
multinationals," Ellis-Sangster said.
China's gross domestic product expanded 9.7 percent in the first quarter
from a year earlier and the World Bank last week raised its forecast for
China, predicting full-year growth of 9.3 percent.
TOP JOBS
Many Chinese women considering business school aspire to top jobs, according
to The Battle for Female Talent in China, a study released in March by the
Center for Work-Life Policy, a New York nonprofit group. The report was
based on interviews with more than 1,000 college-educated women. Bloomberg
LP, which owns Bloomberg Businessweek, was a corporate sponsor of the study.
About 76 percent of Chinese women aspire to a top job, compared with 52
percent of American women, the study found. China's 1979 one-child policy
has led women to pursue education in greater numbers, with parents often
encouraging graduate degrees, said Ripa Rashid, an executive vice-president
at the center.
Helen Ma, 25, a first-year MBA student at the University of Chicago Booth
School of Business, wants to become a chief financial officer. She spent
five years as an accountant in Beijing before enrolling. She is one of 15
students from mainland China in her class, and more than half of them are
women, said Ma, who is considering working in the U.S. for a few years.
LEADERSHIP RISING
"Many Chinese companies are expanding their businesses and, in the long run,
they would like to hire people that have this overseas education background
and working experience," Ma said.
Women now hold 34 percent of senior management roles in China, excluding
Hong Kong, up from 31 percent in 2009, according to a 2011 Grant Thornton
International Business Report, a survey of global companies.
China makes up the second-largest citizen group of GMAT test takers, after
the U.S. Last year, about 63 percent of Chinese examinees were women, and of
that group, 70 percent were under the age of 25, GMAC's Sparkman-Renz said.
The majority of Chinese women, or 82 percent, send GMAT scores to U.S.
schools, with their top program choices being masters of finance or
accounting, followed by MBAs, she said.
Chinese women are flocking to the Boston University School of Management
(Boston Full-Time MBA Profile), where they represent more than a third of
applicants for the master's program in mathematical finance, said
Christopher Storer, director of admissions. Application volume for the
program from Chinese women more than tripled this year, compared with 2009,
he said.
At Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management (Owen Full-
Time MBA Profile) in Nashville, about two-thirds of this year's applications
from China for a master's of science in finance came from women. Many are
graduates of top schools such as Shanghai Jiao Tong University, said John
Roeder, Owen's admissions director, in an e-mail.
"This pipeline into U.S. programs is starting at the undergraduate level in
China, extending into master of science finance programs and will soon hit
the MBA programs in the next few years," Roeder said.
Crystal Ma, 23, headed straight to Owen's master's of science in finance
program after graduating from Shanghai Jiao Tong last year. China's job
market has tightened for undergraduate business majors, and a master's
degree is considered almost an "entry-level" requirement at many companies,
she said.
The degree will help her earn promotions more easily and gain access to
better jobs at large banks and security firms, said Ma, who will be an
investment banking intern this summer at the Hong Kong office of the Royal
Bank of Scotland (RBS).
"Having a degree from the U.S. will be a huge benefit during the interview
process because my English has greatly improved and I'll have a competitive
advantage when I go back to China," Ma said.
VIETNAMESE STUDENTS
More Chinese women are applying to the Thunderbird School of Global
Management (Thunderbird Full-Time MBA Profile) in Glendale, Ariz., said Jay
Bryant, the director of admissions. Last year, there was a 50 percent to 60
percent increase in applications from China, mostly from women, for the
master's of science in global management, he said.
Women in Vietnam, Taiwan, and Thailand are also looking to advanced business
degrees in the U.S., and outnumber men in taking the GMAT, GMAC said. Last
year, women made up 57 percent of all examinees in Taiwan, 59 percent in
Vietnam, and 58 percent in Thailand.
Some are trickling into U.S. business schools such as Thunderbird, which has
two female Vietnamese MBA students in its first-year class, Bryant said.
"A few years ago, we expected to see Vietnamese students every few years,"
Bryant said. "We are now bringing in three or four a year, and we are
beginning to see significant numbers."
An MBA from the U.S. can significantly boost opportunities and salary, said
Vu Dinh Hong Van, a Vietnamese student at Stanford's business school. She
will start work at a management consulting firm in San Francisco after
graduating this year, and plans to eventually return to Vietnam to work in
education.
"Having a degree from abroad automatically puts you into a much more
advanced role in Vietnam than a person who graduated from a local top
college," she said. "You can get a much higher position and salary faster.
It's a very big plus."
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: For Chinese Women, U.S. MBAs Are All the Rage
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: For Chinese Women, U.S. MBAs Are All the Rage
: Seeking an edge in the job market, Chinese women are flocking to U.S. B-
: schools—enough to boost female enrollment overall
: By Alison Damast
: (Corrects name of company where Crystal Ma will be interning this summer.)
: Gail Hu first considered an MBA degree in the U.S. while a student at Fudan
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