The application for Fall 2025 enrollment to the doctoral programmes in the School of Management and Economics (SME) will be open on 1st November 2024.

Programmes open for application for 2025 are namely:

●   MPhil-PhD in Finance

Research focuses: asset pricing, corporate finance, financial intermediaries, market microstructure, behavioural finance, FinTech, and related domains.

●   MPhil-PhD in Economics

Research focuses: microeconomic theory, applied microeconomics, financial economics, macroeconomics, international economics, industrial organization, market design, econometrics, economic data science, and related domains.

●   MPhil-PhD in Accounting 

Research focuses: financial accounting, auditing, managerial accounting, and related domains.

●   MPhil-PhD in Marketing 

Research focuses: consumer behavior, consumer judgment and decision making, quantitative modelling, behavioral marketing, and related domains.

●   MPhil-PhD in Information Management and Business Analytics (IMBA) 

Research focuses: information systems (IS) and operations management (OM).

Candidates from diverse disciplinary backgrounds are welcome. Most programmes take rolling admission, so early application is strongly recommended.

Fees and Funding

Various types of financial support may be offered to selected applicants, including tuition waivers and teaching/research assistantships (up to RMB10,000 before-tax per month during the normative period of study).

How to apply 

1． Application deadline

From 1st November, 2024 to 1st March, 2025

2． Admission requirements

The applicant should have:

- Attained a bachelor’s degree from a recognized university, achieving an average grade of no lower than “B” (Please refer to the home page of each programme for more details on the specific requirements);

- Meet the English language proficiency requirements stipulated by the Graduate School of CUHK-Shenzhen;

- Taken the GRE general test or GMAT.

3． Application materials

- Copies of bachelor’s and/or master’s degree certificate(s), graduation certificate(s), verification report(s) or Certificate of Enrollment

- Official transcripts

- TOEFL, IELTS or GMAT score report as evidence of English language proficiency

- GRE or GMAT score report

- Contact details of at least two referees

- Personal Statement (in English)

- Curriculum Vitae (in English)

- A writing sample (in English) is encouraged but not required

- Other supporting documents as deemed appropriate 

4． How to apply

Applicants must submit their applications through the Graduate School's online application system (https://pgapply.cuhk.edu.cn). The non-refundable application fee is RMB 600.

About Us

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), a research-intensive university, was established through a Mainland - Hong Kong collaboration with staunch support from the Shenzhen Municipal Government. It inherits the fine academic traditions of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and links together the educational and research resources of China and Hong Kong and the world. 

The School of Management and Economics (SME) at CUHK-Shenzhen was established as the first school of the university. It spearheads a globally orientated environment for business education and research in China. SME and CUHK Business School have jointly accepted AACSB accreditation to signify the international standards of our world-class teaching quality. The PhD programmes gather strong faculty, with leading scholars in the world being supervisors. The programmes adopt English teaching and learning. The curriculum design and training mode are in line with top business schools in the world, while integrating with Chinese characteristics, aiming to cultivate leading scholars and researchers for Chinese universities and research institutions. Students who satisfy the graduation requirements will receive degrees of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

According to the latest UTD Top 100 World Rankings of Business Schools Based on Research Contribution 2022-2024, the School of Management and Economics (SME), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen) is ranked No. 81 worldwide and No.3 among Chinese Mainland business schools.

At present, the students of the PhD programmes mainly include outstanding undergraduate and postgraduates from Tsinghua University, Peking University, Renmin University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Zhejiang University, Wuhan University, Sun Yat-sen University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing University, University of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, London School of Economics and Political Science, National University of Singapore, University of Hong Kong and other well-known universities at home and abroad.

Programme Directors

SHEN Rui

Assistant Dean (Research) of SME

Director of Doctoral Studies

Research Interests: Capital Market, Corporate Finance, Financial Analyst, Information Disclosure

YE Lixin

Director of the MPhil-PhD Programme in Economics

Research Interests: Microeconomic Theory, Market Design, Industrial Organization, Contract Theory

HUANG Zongbo

Director of the MPhil-PhD Programme in Finance

Research Interests: Corporate Finance, Banking, Macro-finance

MIAO Bin

Director of the MPhil-PhD Programme in Accounting

Research Interests: Corporate Disclosure, Market Microstructure, Empirical Asset Pricing, Accounting Information and Stock Prices

HUNG, Iris W.

Director of the MPhil-PhD Programme in Marketing

Research Interests: Consumer Judgment and Decision, Prosocial Behavior

JIANG Zhengrui

Director of the MPhil-PhD Programme in Information Management and Business Analytics (Information Systems Concentration)

Research Interests: Business Intelligence and Analytics, Optimization/Decision-making under Uncertainty, Diffusion of Technological Innovations, and Economics of Information Technology

WANG Jingqi

Director of the MPhil-PhD Programme in Information Management and Business Analytics (Operations Management Concentration)

Research Interests: Supply Chain Management, Innovation and Technology Management in Supply Chains, Business Analysis, Empirical Studies in Operations Management

Contact Us

Telephone: (86) 0755 - 2351 8570

Email: rpg_sme@cuhk.edu.cn

Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30-12:00 & 13:00-17:30

Address: Room 532-534, 5/F, Teaching A, 2001 Longxiang Boulevard, Longgang District, Shenzhen, China

New address from 4 November 2024: 3/F, Teaching Complex D, 2001 Longxiang Boulevard, Longgang District, Shenzhen, China

For more information please Click here for the programmes’ homepage.