NYIT Celebrates 16th M.B.A. Graduation at JUFE

Nearly 130 students from NYIT programs in China were honored at NYIT’s 16th graduation ceremony in cooperation with partner Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics (JUFE), in the southern city of Nanchang.

Joining other senior-level personnel in attendance, NYIT Interim President Rahmat Shoureshi, Ph.D., issued a challenge to the graduates: “Apply the perspective, knowledge, and skills that you have acquired with us to a global landscape … to solving through technology, using intelligence and compassion, problems that exist on a global scale.”

In addition to Interim President Shoureshi, graduates received congratulations from JUFE officials including Vice President Wang Xiaoping; Dean Zhou Mei; and Professor and Associate Dean Scott Liu, Ph.D. Associate Director of Employer and Alumni Relations Tony Lei Tong (M.S. ’09) also greeted the new NYIT alumni.

Desong Wang from Beijing and Xinrong Xie from Shenzhen classes represented the graduating class and addressed the audience in both English and Chinese. “In the time that we studied in the M.B.A. program, we broadened our horizons and improved problem solving abilities,” they said. “Wherever we go, we will remember that we are committed to the interests of society and expected to make contributions to our communities and [our alma mater].”

In 1997, NYIT became one of the first foreign universities to receive approval from China’s Ministry of Education to operate an M.B.A., through an agreement with its partner JUFE, which is based in Nanchang.