Hong        Zhang      
     
Phoenix Chair Professor of Finance      
PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University

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In fact, students of full-time postgraduate education and MBA education differ significantly in purpose and teaching methods.

Featuring the so-called “professional school”.

MBA education is focused on applying existing teaching experience and lessons in practice.

But full-time postgraduate education emphasizes academic trainings and guidance.

That is, they differ in purpose.

And, they differ a lot in curriculum, assignments and discussions.

For example, in MBA education, we lay more stress on case teaching.

So we will introduce many cases and encourage the students to discuss and complete cases in groups.

The case discussions have different emphases.

On the one hand, cases are linked to the basic theory frame of finance the students have learned.

On the other hand, we hope that cases can act as media.

By studying cases, students could directly understand how these financial logics are implied in practice.

I hope when students are discussing cases,they could apply the logics of cases into their work experiences.