Beijing, CN · 24 months
Peking Guanghua MBA: cost, salary and payback
The English-taught Global MBA at Peking University's Guanghua School costs CN¥188,000 in tuition for 24 months, one of the lowest fees in our data, and publishes no current employment report.
Paid back after graduation in
salary not published
Total cost $208,086
| Tuition and fees, whole program | $28,086 |
| Living budget | $0 |
| Salary given up, 24 months | $180,000 |
| Total cost | $208,086 |
| Salary after: salary | not published |
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: latest report (school standard) · Built by Radif Partners · Method
- Tuition and fees
- CN¥188,000
- Total cost, salary given up included
- n/a
- Salary
- not published
- Payback, reference person
- not computable
Guanghua School of Management at Peking University charges CN¥188,000 for the whole of its full-time Global MBA, the English-taught track for the 2026 fall intake, about $28,086 at the ECB rate. Only 2 of the 73 schools in our data with a published fee charge less. No other mandatory fee is listed beyond the application fee, and no living budget or housing cost appears on the pages we read. The school's career office links only to employment reports several years old, too old to describe today's market, so there is no salary, no placement rate and no split by industry. Without them our model cannot compute a total cost or a payback for the reference person earning $90,000. The figure that matters most is not on the fee page: 24 months away from work cost that person about $180,000 in salary, roughly 6 times the tuition.
When tuition is the small line
At $28,086, tuition is a minor part of what a Guanghua degree costs anyone with a professional salary. The 24-month format is what drives the bill: for the reference person on $90,000, the salary given up is about $180,000, so a candidate earning half as much would still give up about 3 times the fee. The calculator above takes your own salary and any living estimate you type, and the mini below isolates the salary line.
The salary you give up while you study
Salary given up, net of the internship
$157,500
| Gross salary not earned | $157,500 |
| Per month away | $7,500 |
Pension contributions and raises you would have had are not counted here.
An English track inside a Chinese school
The Global MBA is a small program taught in English, separate from the larger Chinese-taught MBA. The class statistics the school publishes are brief: an average age of 29, about 6 years of work experience, and a group in which the largest share came from finance and banking before the program. There is no class size, no share of women and no share of international students on the pages we read.
Scholarships are generous relative to the fee. The top award waives the whole tuition, and the school lists need-based, women's leadership and municipal government awards with published ranges; it does not say how many students receive one. For comparison, SJTU Antai in Shanghai charges $54,976 for its own 24-month English-taught MBA, more than Guanghua.
What is missing, and where to look
A payback needs a recent salary and a living budget, and Guanghua's open pages give neither. None of the Chinese schools in our data publishes both, so no Chinese program can be compared on the same model. Ask admissions for the most recent placement figures of the English-taught class specifically, since a report on the Chinese-taught MBA describes a different group. For the salary field of the calculator, the honest input is what the role you want pays in the city where you plan to work; a salary from another market converted into dollars says little about pay in Beijing. The fee is set in renminbi, so the cost in your own currency moves with the exchange rate.
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.
Where Peking Guanghua stands in our rankings
Not ranked: Peking Guanghua does not publish a living budget for students or a graduate salary, which our ranking needs. Its cost is complete above.
Our fit score, reference person earning $90,000 before the MBA (method). Third-party rankings play no part in it. For reference, Peking Guanghua was ranked 14 in the FT Global MBA 2026.
What the Peking Guanghua MBA costs
| Item | CNY, and US dollars |
|---|---|
| Tuition, whole program | CN¥188,000 $28,086 |
| Living budget | not published |
The Peking Guanghua class
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Average age | 29 |
| Average years of work experience | 6 |
Not published by Peking Guanghua in the documents we read: a living budget for students; a graduate salary; the split of the class by industry; where graduates went to work; the split by job function. We leave these blank rather than fill them with an estimate.