The concentration will gather up to
10 Ph.D. candidates that will be placed within the SSE's regular Ph.D. program. Besides
Business Administration, candidates can also be accepted in the
economics or the
finance program.
Beside the
regular entrance criteria the candidates also need to master one of the major Asian languages (Japanese, Chinese or Korean).
The idea is that the
"Asian group" shall be sitting together, in close vicinity to
EIJS and
CERC during their study time and in this way constitute part of an
"Asian academic hub" at the school. Besides the regular curriculum there will be a number of Asia related seminars and other activities to take part in.
What is different with this concentration is also that we will be working very closely with business society. We are asking various companies to
"sponsor a Ph.D. candidate". So far three companies have agreed to this and we are now starting the recruitment of our first candidates. At the moment we are looking for two candidates working on Japan with a deadline for applications on
February 1 2011 and another one working on China also with a deadline of application on
February 1 2012.
The concentration is four to five years, and is given in English.