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@ 50212 MBA在中國的發展
A 你知道嗎？我表哥剛剛收到復旦大學MBA的錄取通知單。
nǐ zhīdào ma? wǒ biǎogē gānggāng shōudào Fùdàndàxué MBA de lùqǔ tōngzhīdān.
You know what? My cousin just got an acceptance letter to Fudan University's MBA program!
B 是嗎？恭喜恭喜。你表哥真厲害！
shì ma? gōngxǐ gōngxǐ. nǐ biǎogē zhēn lìhai!
Really? Congratulations! Your cousin is awesome!
A 哎。可是他一點兒也不高興，甚至還想放棄呢！
āi. kěshì tā yīdiǎnr yě bù gāoxìng, shènzhì huái xiǎng fàngqì ne!
Agh. But he's not happy about it at all. He's even thinking about forfeiting it.
B 為什麼啊？現在MBA這麼熱門，畢業以後前途無量啊！
wèishénme ā? xiànzài MBA zhème rèmén, bìyè yǐhòu qiántúwúliàng ā!
Why? MBAs are so popular these days. After he graduates, his future will be wide open!
A 我也不知道。聽我表哥說，雖然MBA號稱高級管理人才的通道，很多人都覺得MBA畢業後通常能賺大錢，可是現在國內讀工商管理碩士的人多如牛毛，反而顯得這個證書沒什麼含金量了。更何況，學費還貴得嚇死人。大概他真正想考的是國外的MBA。
wǒ yě bù zhīdào. tīng wǒ biǎogē shuō, suīrán MBA hàochēng gāojí guǎnlǐ réncái de tōngdào, hěn duō rén dōu juéde MBA bìyè hòu tōngcháng néng zhuàn dàqián, kěshì xiànzài guónèi dú gōngshāng guǎnlǐ shuòshì de rén duōrúniúmáo, fǎn ér xiǎnde zhège zhèngshū méishénme hánjīnliàng le. gènghékuàng, xuéfèi hái guì de hèsǐ rén. dàgài tā zhēnzhèng xiǎng kǎo de shì guówài de MBA.
I don't know. To hear my cousin tell it, although the MBA calls itself the route to high level management, and a lot of people think that after they graduate from an MBA program they'll be able to earn a lot of money, tons of people in China go to grad school in industrial and commercial management, so there's nothing too special about the degree. What's more, the tuition is frighteningly expensive. What he'd probably really like to try for is a foreign MBA.
B 可是，雖然中國的MBA教育發展還不算久，不算特別成熟和完善，但我們的確是需要大量的高級管理人才啊。MBA教育在中國一直在逐步升溫。從15年前清華大學開始試點培養MBA人才，到1999年擁有頒佈MBA證書資格的高校數目就已經上升到56所，到現在更是呈幾何倍數增長，報考人數和畢業人才數也越來越多。我倒是很贊成在中國本土培養MBA人才，這樣不僅省去了遠洋學習的重重困難與麻煩，還避免了人才流失。所以呀，儘管中國的MBA教育還處於萌芽狀態，我們還是要給予支持的。
kěshì, suīrán Zhōngguó de MBA jiàoyù fāzhǎn hái bù suàn jiǔ, bù suàn tèbié chéngshú hé wánshàn, dàn wǒmen díquè shì xūyào dàliàng gāojí guǎnlǐ réncái ā. MBA jiàoyù zài Zhōngguó yīzhí zài zhúbù shēngwēn. cóng shíwǔ nián qián Qīnghuádàxué kāishǐ shìdiǎn péiyǎng MBA réncái, dào yī jiǔ jiǔ jiǔ nián yōngyǒu bānbù MBA zhèngshū zīge de gāoxiào shùmù jiù yǐjīng shàngshēng dào wǔshíliù suǒ, dào xiànzài gèng shì chéng jǐhé bèishù zēngzhǎng, bàokǎo rénshù hé bìyè réncái shù yě yuèláiyuèduō. wǒ dàoshì hěn zànchéng zài Zhōngguó běntǔ péiyǎng MBA réncái, zhèyàng bùjǐn shěng qù le yuǎnyáng xuéxí de chóngchóng kùnnan yǔ máfan, hái bìmiǎn le réncái liúshī. suǒyǐ yā, jǐnguǎn Zhōngguó de MBA jiàoyù hái chǔyú méngyá zhuàngtài, wǒmen hái shì yào jǐyǔ zhīchí de.
But although we can't say that the MBA in China has been developing for a long time, and it's not especially mature or complete, we definitely need a lot of high level management talent. MBA education in China has been getting gradually hotter. From Qinghua University's launch of MBA training fifteen years ago, to 1999 when the number of universities offering an MBA degree reached 56, to today, when the number is rising geometrically, more and more people are taking the entrance exams and graduating. I actually really support China's domestic training of MBAs. This way, not only do you save a lot of trouble and hassle by not needing to go far away to study, you also avoid a brain drain. So, although MBA training is just getting started in China, we should still support it.
A 我還是覺得不太可靠。雖說MBA是一個新興事物，發展快是沒有錯，但國內MBA的教育質量實在是良莠不齊。各大學校都爭先開設MBA課程，卻沒有足夠的師資和教學基礎，報考MBA的學員也是一味跟風，根本沒有應有的素質和基礎。MBA教育本來是對有一定管理經驗的人進行高級管理培養的，所以報考的條件之一就是要有3到5年的工作經驗，可是現在在國內，卻成為了很多人為了得到文憑和找工作的跳板。我想這是有悖於MBA教育的初衷的。
wǒ hái shì juéde bùtài kěkào. suīshuō MBA shì yī ge xīnxīng shìwù, fāzhǎn kuài shì méiyǒu cuò, dàn guónèi MBA de jiàoyù zhìliàng shízài shì liángyǒubùqí. gè dà xuéxiào dōu zhēngxiān kāishè MBA kèchéng, què méiyǒu zúgòu de shīzī hé jiàoxué jīchǔ, bàokǎo MBA de xuéyuán yě shì yīwèi gēnfēng, gēnběn méiyǒu yīngyǒu de sùzhì hé jīchǔ. MBA jiàoyù běnlái shì duì yǒu yīdìng guǎnlǐ jīngyàn de rén jìnxíng gāojí guǎnlǐ péiyǎng de, suǒyǐ bàokǎo de tiáojiàn zhīyī jiùshì yào yǒu sān dào wǔ nián de gōngzuò jīngyàn, kěshì xiànzài zài guónèi, què chéngwéi le hěn duō rén wèile dédào wénpíng hé zhǎo gōngzuò de tiàobǎn. wǒ xiǎng zhè shì yǒubèi yú MBA jiàoyù de chūzhōng de.
I still think it's not that reliable. It's fine to say that the MBA is a new thing, and it should develop quickly. But the quality of education in domestic MBA programs is just very uneven. Every university is competing to be first to offer MBA classes, but they don't have enough teachers or an academic foundation. The students taking the MBA entrance exams are all just getting on the band wagon. They just don't have the necessary qualities or background. MBA education was originally to offer advanced management training to people who already had a certain amount of work experience. So one of the conditions of application was three to five years of work experience. But now, in China, people are using their MBA qualifications as a launch pad when they go job-hunting. I think that runs counter to the MBA's original intention.
B 的確是。現在各種MBA遠程教育，備考輔導，全脫產班、全業餘班、還有什麼基本業餘班都層出不窮，看得人頭昏眼花。“掛羊頭賣狗肉”的情況也確實存在。不過一些名校的MBA課程還是有口皆碑的，他們和國際知名學校合作並聘請了很多國際名師前來授課，為國際化企業職業經理人提供了學習和交流的平臺。有的學校推出的只是一些相關的培訓課程，並不是MBA學位，但是仍有很多人前來報名，也說明了並不是所有人都是為了學歷。
díquè shì. xiànzài gèzhǒng MBA yuǎnchéng jiàoyù, bèikǎo fǔdǎo, quán tuōchǎn bān, quán yèyú bān, hái yǒu shénme jīběn yèyú bān Dōu céngchūbùqióng, kàn de rén tóuhūnyǎnhuā. `` guàyángtóumàigǒuròu" de qíngkuàng yě quèshí cúnzài. bùguò yīxiē míngxiào de MBA kèchéng hái shì yǒukǒujiēbēi de, tāmen hé guójì zhīmíng xuéxiào hézuò bìng pìnqǐng le hěn duō guójì míngshī qiánlái shòukè, wèi guójìhuà qǐyè zhíyè jīnglǐrén tígōng le xuéxí hé jiāoliú de píngtái. yǒude xuéxiào tuīchū de zhǐshì yīxiē xiāngguān de péixùn kèchéng, bìng bù shì MBA xuéwèi, dànshì réng yǒu hěn duō rén qiánlái bàomíng, yě shuōmíng le bìng bù shì suǒyǒu rén dōu shì wéile xuélì.
That's for sure. All kinds of MBA distance education, test prep coaching, work-study programs, basic part-time classes and such are coming out one after another. You get dizzy looking at them all. Then there's also ``bait and switch." But some top schools' MBA programs really do get wide praise. They cooperate with famous international schools and hire renowned international professors to come teach. They give managers from international companies a platform for study and exchange. What some schools have introduced is just related classes, certainly not an MBA degree. But a lot of people still come to sign up, which just goes to show that not everybody is doing it for the education.
A 可是現在讀MBA啊，就和當年讀大學一樣，很多人只是覺得MBA畢業了就意味著找到了金飯碗，所以才一窩蜂地去學。就算學費再貴，也有不少的人寧願擠破頭地去爭取。我表哥對此則顯得比較冷靜，覺得還是真正能學到東西更為重要。
kěshì xiànzài dú MBA ā, jiù hé dāngnián dú dàxué yīyàng, hěn duō rén zhǐshì juéde MBA bìyè le jiù yìwèi zhe zhǎodào le jīnfànwǎn, suǒyǐ cái yīwōfēng de qù xué. jiùsuàn xuéfèi zài guì, yě yǒu bù shǎo de rén nìngyuàn jǐ pò tóu de qù qù zhēngqǔ. wǒ biǎogē duìcǐ zé xiǎnde bǐjiào lěngjìng, juéde hái shì zhēnzhèng néng xuédào dōngxi gèng wéi zhòngyào.
But studying for an MBA these days is like college used to be: a lot of people think that once they've graduated, it'll be like they've found a ``golden rice bowl." That's the only reason they rush blindly off to study. No matter how high the tuition is, there will always be a lot of people willing to go all out to get accepted. My cousin is actually pretty cool toward all this stuff. He thinks it's better to actually be able to learn something.
B 你知道嗎？美國麻省理工大學的斯隆管理學院支持中國開辦的國際MBA項目，首批合作的大學就只有清華大學和復旦大學。他們都是以全英文授課，模塊式教學，吸取了國外MBA教學的精華，辦學質量應該還是信得過的。著名的國際諮詢公司麥肯錫的員工也大多是從各所名校畢業的MBA人才，所以說MBA就好像是進入企業管理高層的護照也不為過。
nǐ zhīdào ma? Měiguó Māshěnglǐgōngdàxué de Sīlōng guǎnlǐ xuéyuàn zhīchí Zhōngguó kāibàn de guójì MBA xiàngmù, shǒupī hézuò de dàxué jiù zhǐyǒu Qīnghuádàxué hé Fùdàndàxué. tāmen dōu shì yǐ quán Yīngwén shòukè, mókuài shì jiàoxué, xīqǔ le guówài MBA jiàoxué de jīnghuá, bànxué zhìliàng yīnggāi hái shì xìn de guò de. zhùmíng de guójì zīxún gōngsī Màikěnxī de yuángōng yě dàduō shì cóng gè suǒ míngxiào bìyè de MBA réncái, suǒyǐ shuō MBA jiù hǎoxiàng shì jìnrù qǐyè guǎnlǐ gāocéng de hùzhào yě bù wéi guò.
You know what? The Sloan School of Management at MIT in America has given China support in opening International MBA Programs. The first batch of partner universities only includes Qinghua University and Fudan. They are all taught completely in English, with modular teaching methods. They've attracted the cream of overseas MBA education. The quality of education should be pretty good. Most employees of McKinsey, the famous international consulting firm, are MBA graduates from top universities. So it's not far off the mark to say that the MBA is a passport to the high levels of corporate management.
A 是嗎？聽起來好像還不錯。
shì ma? tīng qǐlai hǎoxiàng hái bùcuò.
Is that so? Sounds like it's pretty good.
B 是的，國內名校的MBA課程不一定比國外差，擁有機會而不去讀實在是很可惜的，所以還是勸勸你表哥再好好考慮一下吧。
shìde, guónèi míngxiào de MBA kèchéng bù yīdìng bǐ guówài chà, yōngyǒu jīhuì ér bù qù dú shízài shì hěn kěxī de, suǒyǐ hái shì quànquan nǐ biǎogē zài hǎohāo kǎolǜ yīxià ba.
It is! Top domestic MBA programs are not necessarily any worse than foreign ones. It'd would be a real pity to have an opportunity to go study there but then not take it. So I still say you should encourage your cousin to think it over.
Key Vocabulary
前途無量 qiántú wúliàng to have unlimited prospects
多如牛毛 duōrúniúmáo countless
含金量 hánjīnliàng to contain a lot of value
幾何倍數 jǐhé bèishù geometric increase
良莠不齊 liángyǒubùqí there are both good and bad
有悖於 yǒubèi yú contrary to
初衷 chūzhōng original intention or aspiration
掛羊頭賣狗肉 guàyángtóumàigǒuròu to engage in deceptive practices
有口皆碑 yǒukǒujiēbēi to win praise from all sides
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