Peking University
Study away in Beijing, where PKU is a leading business school in China that celebrates its heritage of innovation and social responsibility.
Program Overview
About Peking University
Just as China is in a dynamic state of change, Peking University (PKU) finds itself in the position of meeting the evolving challenges facing the world economies. Through its educational initiatives, PKU’s Guanghua School of Management seeks to become a world-class business school and advance the local community with its intellectual resources and far-reaching alumni network. PKU has more than 32,000 students and over 4,000 faculty members, and the Guanghua School of Management has more than 3,000 students and over 100 faculty members. As a leading business school in China, PKU Guanghua is committed to providing the local and international business community with cutting-edge management knowledge and services. With the PKU’s heritage of innovation and social responsibility, its faculty continues to serve the nation with aspiration and dedication. PKU prides itself on educating business leaders who make a difference to the world.
Term Dates
PKU offers IBEX opportunities in fall and spring semesters.
- Fall semester: early-September to *late-December. *
For courses in Chinese, exams will be held in January in Beijing - Spring semester: mid-February to late-June
Dates are approximate and may be subject to change.
Housing and Living Costs
- Housing: PKU currently does not offer housing to exchange students. The Office of International Relations at Guanghua will email information to you before arrival to help you find your own apartment close to the campus. Rates range from $400 – $800 USD per month for a single room in a two- or three-bedroom apartment.
- Overall expenses: approximately $350 – $450 USD per month, excluding housing.
- Food: local restaurants 10 – 20 RMB/meal.
- Transportation: public bus (1 RMB per ride), subway (3 RMB per ride).
- Insurance: approximately 300 – 400 RMB/semester.
RMB = Chinese Yuan
Find out more about IBEX tuition, housing, and other logistics.
Language of Instruction
English and Chinese
Student Services
PKU has a Guanghua International Students Association that runs a Buddy Program and various student organizations.
Academic Information
If you are accepted to IBEX, you will attend two advising meetings to plan and revise your schedule: one individual advising meeting with NYU Stern Academic Advising and one group advising meeting with the NYU Stern Global Experiences team. As you build your academic schedule for your semester abroad, carefully review and consider the following course information.
IBEX Course Information
- You may take a full semester of business classes while abroad on IBEX.
- Leave room for at least two general electives in your schedule. This allows you to:
- Take interesting, location-specific courses not offered at Stern, and
- Have more flexibility during the course registration process.
- Reference the IBEX Course Guide: What you can or cannot take.
- You can take a maximum of two classes per concentration.
- Accounting courses cannot be taken for credit toward the Accounting or CPA majors/concentrations.
- All IBEX grades will transfer back to NYU Stern as Pass/Fail.
Previously Approved Courses
- Listed below are courses that were taken previously by Stern IBEX students and have already been approved for a specific NYU equivalent.
- There is no guarantee that the courses listed here will be offered during the specific semester you study abroad. It is important to be flexible. Have a Plan A and Plan B and the space to take some electives.
- If a course is already listed below as approved, it does not need to be reviewed again, unless you want to see if it will count towards a new requirement.
Finding New Courses
- You are not limited to only taking the courses listed on this page.
- If you see a course on PKU’s website that you would like to take, but is not listed below, you must submit the syllabus to Stern’s Global Experiences team for approval.
- Once PKU publishes its confirmed courses for the semester you will be attending, you can revise your list as needed based on what is being offered.
List of Approved Courses
|
Course Title Abroad |
NYU Credits |
Course Equivalent at NYU |
Semester Taken |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02801960 Understanding Chinese Society, 1700-2000 | 3 | Cultures and Contexts | Fall 2021 |
|
02138850 Social History of Contemporary China |
3 |
Cultures and Contexts |
Fall 2020 |
|
02034480 Chinese Folklore and Culture |
3 |
Cultures and Contexts |
Fall 2019 |
|
02131110 Politics and Culture in Traditional China |
3 |
Cultures and Contexts |
Spring 2019 |
|
03530600 Contemporary Korean Society |
3 |
Cultures and Contexts |
Fall 2019 |
|
06731020 China’s Education and Its Cultural Foundations |
3 |
Cultures and Contexts |
Fall 2018 |
|
01834190 Media and Society in China |
3 |
Cultures and Contexts |
Fall 2019 |
| 03835830 Selective Readings in Western Civilization | 3 | Texts and Ideas | Fall 2021 |
| 02333180 Comparison between Eastern and Western Philosophy | 3 | Texts and Ideas | Fall 2021 |
|
02033360 Contemporary Chinese Literature |
4 |
Texts and Ideas |
Fall 2020 |
|
02080261 Modern Chinese Literature |
3 |
Texts and Ideas |
Fall 2020 |
|
02330070 Modern Western Philosophy |
3 |
Texts and Ideas |
Fall 2020 |
|
02332976 Republic |
4 |
Texts and Ideas |
Spring 2020 |
|
02034330 Reading Lu Xun’s Fictions in the Context of World Literature |
3 |
Texts and Ideas |
Spring 2019 |
|
02030040 History of Modern Chinese Literature |
4 |
Texts and Ideas |
Spring 2019 |
|
02032270 Studies on Famous Works of Modern Chinese Literature |
3 |
Texts and Ideas |
Spring 2019 |
|
03832040 Selected Readings in European Literature |
3 |
Texts and Ideas |
Fall 2019 |
|
03832080 American Short Stories |
3 |
Texts and Ideas |
Fall 2019 |
|
03833130 Selected Readings in English Novels |
3 |
Texts and Ideas |
Fall 2019 |
|
03834240 Contemporary Chinese and American Fiction in Comparative Perspective |
3 |
Texts and Ideas |
Fall 2019 |
|
3835670 - Chinese Society and Culture in Modern English Nonfiction Works |
3 |
Texts and Ideas |
Fall 2018 |
|
Image of China in Selected Works of Western Literature |
3 |
Texts and Ideas |
Fall 2018 |
|
02080331: Selected Readings from Contemporary Chinese Literature |
3 |
Texts and Ideas |
Fall 2019 & Fall 2020 |
|
03033243 Masterpieces in China |
3 |
Texts and Ideas |
Fall 2017 |
| 01231890 Physics and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior | 3 | Natural Science | Fall 2022 |
|
00432300 Climate Change: The Scientific Basis for Global Warming |
3 |
Natural Science |
Fall 2020 |
|
01233170 Introduction to Seismology |
3 |
Natural Science |
Fall 2020 |
|
00432265 Modern Astronomy |
3 |
Natural Science |
Fall 2020 |
|
00430109: Demonstration Physics |
3 |
Natural Science |
Fall 2019 |
| 02839030 Co-evolution Strategy: From Start-up to Transition | 3 | General Stern Elective | Fall 2022 |
| 02837122 Internet and New Marketing Models | 3 | General Stern Elective | Fall 2022 |
|
02838330 Value Investment |
3 |
General Stern Elective (for non-Finance concentrations) |
Fall 2020 |
|
02839040 New product development and management |
3 |
General Stern Elective |
Fall 2020 |
|
02812760 Cases on China |
3 |
General Stern Elective |
Fall 2020 |
|
02839210 Artificial Intelligence and Business Innovation |
3 |
General Stern Elective |
Fall 2020 |
|
02802190 Chinese Economy |
3 |
General Stern Elective |
Spring 2020 |
|
Public Finance |
3 |
General Stern Elective |
Spring 2019 |
|
02839080 Finance in China |
3 |
General Stern Elective |
Spring 2019 |
|
02834750 Innovation Management |
2 |
General Stern Elective |
Fall 2019 & Fall 2020 |
|
02837140 Doing Business in China |
3 |
General Stern Elective |
Fall 2018 & Fall 2020 |
|
02838092 Operation and Management of Enterprises in China |
1 |
General Stern Elective |
Fall 2018 |
|
02839030 Co-evolution Strategy: From Start-Up to Transition |
3 |
General Stern Elective |
Fall 2018 |
|
02834800 Business Plan Competition |
3 |
General Stern Elective |
Fall 2018 |
|
Career Develop Strategy |
3 |
General Stern Elective |
Spring 2018 |
|
Service Marketing |
3 |
General Stern Elective |
Spring 2018 |
|
2834390 Strategy Management |
3 |
General Stern Elective |
Fall 2015 & Fall 2020 |
| History of Western Fine Arts | 3 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2022 |
|
02138850 Social History of Contemporary China |
3 |
General Non-Stern Elective |
Fall 2020 |
|
02801960 Understanding Chinese Society, 1700-2000 |
3 |
General Non-Stern Elective |
Fall 2020 |
|
02034020 Speeches and Oral Cultures in China |
3 |
General Non-Stern Elective |
Spring 2019 |
|
02800001 Primary Business Chinese II |
3 |
General Non-Stern Elective |
Fall 2019 |
|
Poetry Writing |
3 |
General Non-Stern Elective |
Spring 2019 |
| 02839430 Development Economics | 3 | Advanced Economic Elective | Fall 2021 |
| 02830260 Shadow PBoC | 3 | Advanced Economic Elective | Fall 2021 |
|
02534660 Introduction of Behavioral Finance |
3 |
Advanced Economics Elective (cannot also get credit for FINC-UB 29 Behavioral Finance) |
Fall 2018 |
|
02831560 Applied Econometrics |
3 |
Advanced Economics Elective |
Fall 2020 |
|
E2800030 Management Science and Information Management |
3 |
INFO-UB 1 Info Tech in Business and Society |
Fall 2020 |
| Computer Programming in Financial Engineering | 3 | Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective | Fall 2022 |
| 02839440 Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence | 3 | Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective | Fall 2022 |
|
04834560 Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Applications |
3 |
Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective |
Fall 2020 |
|
Data Analysis and Statistical Software |
3 |
Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective |
Fall 2019 & Fall 2020 |
|
Data Structure and Algorithm (A) |
3 |
Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective |
Fall 2019 |
|
04831420:Data Structure and Algorithm (B) |
3 |
Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective *Cannot take Data Structures at Courant |
Fall 2019 |
|
Data Warehousing and Data Mining |
3 |
Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective |
Fall 2019 |
|
Web Data Mining |
3 |
Advanced Computing and Data Sciences Elective |
Fall 2019 |
|
04830250: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence |
3 |
Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elecive |
Fall 2019 |
|
Introduction to Database Systems |
3 |
Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective |
Fall 2019 |
|
02839010 Data Analytical Thinking: From Data Analysis to Business Value |
3 |
Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective |
Spring 2019 |
|
04833200 JavaScript Web Programming |
3 |
Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective (counts as Courant course) |
Spring 2020 |
| Derivative Pricing and Applications | 3 | Advanced Finance Elective | Fall 2022 |
| 02802220 Finance in China |
3 |
Advanced Finance Elective |
Spring 2022 |
| 02812990 Option Volatility and Hedge Fund | 3 | Advanced Finance Elective | Spring 2022 |
| 02837170 Game Theory | 3 | Advanced Finance Elective | Spring 2022 |
|
Risk Management |
3 |
Advanced Finance Elective |
Fall 2021 |
|
02838330 Value Investment |
3 |
Advanced Finance Elective |
Fall 2020 |
|
International Finance and International Trade |
3 |
Advanced Finance Elective |
Spring 2019 |
|
Investment Banking |
3 |
Advanced Finance Elective |
Spring 2018 |
|
02838370 Chinese Financial Market and Institution |
3 |
Advanced Finance Elective |
Fall 2018 |
|
2833230 Financial Markets and Financial Institutions |
3 |
Advanced Finance Elective |
Spring 2019 |
|
Corporate Finance |
3 |
FINC-UB 7 - Corporate Finance |
Fall 2020 |
|
02831570 Fixed Income Securities |
3 |
FINC-UB 26 Debt Instruments and Markets |
Fall 2018 |
|
2838460 International Finance |
3 |
FINC-UB 30 International Financial Managment |
Fall 2018 |
|
02839060 Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation |
3 |
FINC-UB 61 Entrepreneurial Finance |
Spring 2019 |
|
02832690 Logistics and Supply Chain Management |
3 |
OPMG-UB 6 Supply Chain Management |
Fall 2020 |
|
02830240 Operation Management |
3 |
OPMG-UB 1 Operations Management |
Spring 2019 |
| 02834390 Strategic Management | 3 | MGMT-UB 18 Strategic Analysis | Fall 2022 |
|
2831100 Organization and Management |
3 |
MGMT-UB 1 Management & Organizations |
Fall 2015, Fall 2016 |
|
Management |
3 |
MGMT-UB 1 Management and Organizations |
Spring 2019 |
| 02832640 Marketing | 3 | MKTG-UB 1 Introduction to Marketing | Fall 2022 |
| Marketing Communications | 3 | Advanced Marketing Elective | Fall 2021 |
|
02838350 Channel & Retailing Management in China |
3 |
Advanced Marketing Elective |
Fall 2020 |
|
02839220 Behavioral Applications in Marketing |
3 |
Advanced Marketing Elective |
Fall 2020 |
|
02838980 Marketing Research Methods |
3 |
MKTG-UB 9 Research for Customer Insights |
Spring 2019 |
|
02832600 - Principles of Marketing |
3 |
MKTG-UB 1 Introduction to Marketing |
Spring 2019 |
|
02831600 International Finance and International Trade |
3 |
ECON-UB 11 Economics of Global Business (EGB) |
Spring 2020 |
|
Experiment in Entrepreneurship |
2 |
SOIM-UB 12 Professional Responsibility and Leadership (PRL) |
Fall 2017 |
|
02834370 Enterprise Ethics |
3 |
SOIM-UB 12 Professional Responsibility & Leadership (PRL) |
Spring 2019 |
|
02838920 Value Proposition and Business Model Design for Technology Venture |
3 |
BEMT Minor |
Fall 2018 |
|
02535300 Business and Society in Modern China: An Institutional Perspective |
3 |
BPE Area Studies |
Fall 2017 |