Shanghai, CN · 16 months · class of 104
CEIBS MBA: cost, salary and payback
A 16-month MBA in Shanghai at CN¥488,000, with a class that is mostly Chinese and stays almost entirely in Asia.
Paid back after graduation in
over 30 years
Total cost $192,904 · 10-year NPV -$379,397
| Tuition and fees, whole program | $72,904 |
| Living budget | $0 |
| Salary given up, 16 months | $120,000 |
| Total cost | $192,904 |
| Salary after: median base salary | $62,745 |
| 10-year net present value | -$379,397 |
| Return on the cost (present values) | -198% |
US dollars at the ECB rate of the last update. Raises of 5% a year with the MBA and 3% without, discounted at 5%, before tax. The school publishes no living budget: the figure above is yours. How this is calculated.
Fees and budget read on October 13, 2026 · employment: Class of 2025 (MBA2025) (school standard) · Built by Radif Partners · Method
- Tuition and fees
- CN¥488,000
- Total cost, salary given up included
- n/a
- median base salary
- CN¥420,000
- Payback, reference person
- not computable
CEIBS charges CN¥488,000 for its 16-month English-taught MBA, about $72,904 at the ECB rate, for the MBA 2029 (2027 intake) class, the highest tuition of the 4 Chinese schools on this site. The fee covers teaching materials and campus databases; the school publishes no full living budget, only the rent of a room in the campus dormitory, so this page cannot give a total cost for the reference person earning $90,000 or a payback date. You can still run the calculator above by typing your own living costs in Shanghai. The class of 2025 reported a median base salary of CN¥420,000, about $62,745, from a survey that every graduate answered. What sets CEIBS apart is the market it serves: 94.4% of graduates who took a job stayed in Asia, mostly in mainland China, and manufacturing hired 20.8% of the class, a share only one other school in our data exceeds.
Healthcare and manufacturing next to tech
Technology is the largest sector, 31.9% of graduates, and the next two are industrial: manufacturing took 20.8% and healthcare 15.3%. Consulting took 9.7% and finance 9.7%. On the school's measure, the best-paid sector was healthcare, at CN¥600,000, against CN¥443,000 in technology.
Those sector figures are not base salaries. CEIBS reports pay by sector, function and location as median annual guaranteed cash, which adds other guaranteed pay to the base, so they run above the school-wide median base salary of CN¥420,000. Compare sector with sector, not a sector figure with the base salary. The school also publishes ranges, and they are wide: a median tells you little about a single offer.
CEIBS: where the class went
Share of the class
9.7%
| Salary reported | $89,187 |
| Graduates, about | 10 |
| Payback with that salary | n/a |
Reference person earning $90,000 before the MBA.
A China career, priced in yuan
94.4% of graduates who took a job stayed in Asia, which places CEIBS number 3 of 18 in our Asia ranking, and only 5.6% went to Europe, at a median guaranteed cash of CN¥300,000. The report splits destinations by nationality: international students went to mainland China less often than Chinese students, but a majority of them still started there. The class is 17.3% international, 51% women, with an average of 5.5 years of experience.
In dollars the base median is $62,745, below the lowest school-wide figure of any American program on this site, while tuition converts to $72,904. The comparison only makes sense for someone who plans to earn in yuan; the converter below shows how much the exchange rate moves both lines.
A fee or a salary in US dollars
In US dollars
$111,880
| 1 EUR | $1.119 |
ECB reference rate of October 13, 2026. Prices on the ground do not follow exchange rates one for one.
What is missing before you can compute a payback
The school lists the dormitory rent but no budget for food, transport, health cover or travel home, so we leave the living line blank rather than guess. For a rough total, add 16 months of your own Shanghai costs to the tuition in the calculator above. The Asia pages also cover Fudan, SJTU Antai and Peking Guanghua, the other schools in China on this site.
Where CEIBS stands in our rankings
- #16 of 16 · Working in Europe, UK included
- #3 of 18 · Working in Asia
Our fit score, reference person earning $90,000 before the MBA (method). Third-party rankings play no part in it. For reference, CEIBS was ranked 8 in the FT Global MBA 2026.
What the CEIBS MBA costs
| Item | CNY, and US dollars |
|---|---|
| Tuition, whole program | CN¥488,000 $72,904 |
| Living budget | not published |
CEIBS employment report: Class of 2025 (MBA2025)
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Median base salary | CN¥420,000 $62,745 |
| Graduates who accepted an offer within three months | 90% |
| Response rate to the survey | 100% |
CEIBS graduates by industry
| Industry, as the school names it | Share | Salary |
|---|---|---|
| Technology | 31.9% | CN¥443,000 |
| Manufacturing | 20.8% | CN¥495,000 |
| Healthcare | 15.3% | CN¥600,000 |
| Education + Others | 12.6% | not published |
| Consulting | 9.7% | CN¥597,000 |
| Financial Services | 9.7% | CN¥390,000 |
Where CEIBS graduates went to work
| Region | Share | Salary |
|---|---|---|
| Europe | 5.6% | CN¥300,000 |
| Asia | 94.4% | not published |
CEIBS graduates by job function
| Function | Share | Salary |
|---|---|---|
| Marketing / Sales | 32.4% | CN¥500,000 |
| General Management | 26.8% | CN¥569,000 |
| Finance / Accounting | 18.3% | CN¥475,000 |
| Consulting | 9.9% | CN¥610,000 |
| Information Technology | 4.2% | CN¥420,000 |
| Operations / Logistics | 4.2% | CN¥450,000 |
| Others | 4.2% | CN¥550,000 |
Employers named by CEIBS
McKinsey & Company · Roland Berger · Accenture · Deloitte · Tencent · ByteDance · Amazon · Apple · Google · Xiaomi · Meituan · AstraZeneca · Roche · Eli Lilly · L'Oréal · LVMH · PepsiCo · Bosch · BASF · Michelin
Names only: the school gives no hire counts.
The CEIBS class
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| International students | 17.3% |
| Women | 51% |
| Average age | 29.3 |
| Average years of work experience | 5.5 |
| Class size | 104 |
Not published by CEIBS in the documents we read: a living budget for students. We leave these blank rather than fill them with an estimate.