How the Partnerships Works

Through partnerships, Benedictine University faculty partner with their Chinese counterparts in preparing Chinese students for the 21st century and model how faculty from different parts of the world can partner to make each institution better. Chicago-based Benedictine students can also visit China while pursuing their degree. Benedictine students in China learn from American faculty acutely versed in training future managers to meet the needs of an increasingly sophisticated and complex society, and from Chinese faculty intimately familiar with their country’s exploding economic environment.

The courses are taught using Benedictine’s curriculum. Students progress through the curriculum in groups of 20-30 students, or "learning teams," and attend class on the weekend. They are also expected to spend an additional four-to-six hours per day studying the material. Each team completes the entire course of study in 18-24 months.

In just over two years, more than 100 students have graduated from the Benedictine University Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) and Master of Science in Management Information Systems (M.S.M.I.S.) programs in China.

Partnership Opportunities

After the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, restrictions on U.S. visas forced educational institutions in the United States to find new ways to make their programs available to overseas students. Foreign educational institutions were prompted to seek partners to meet their students’ demands for American business programs.

Benedictine University, Shenyang University of Technology and Shenyang Jianzhu University formed a partnership in late 2004 to meet this need and that would create an environment of sharing, cooperation, and personal and professional growth among a new generation of learners and professors.

Benedictine University has also established partnerships with the Copenhagen Business School in Copenhagen, Denmark; the Universidad de Monterrey in Monterrey and the Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico City, Mexico; Chuo University outside Tokyo, Japan; the Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria in Madrid and Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain; Le Groupe Sup de CO Montpellier, France; and Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Suwon and Kwangnung, Korea.