European Talent Fellowship — Fellowship

The European Talent Fellowship is a conditional fellowship for first-year students in the China Europe International Business School MBA. The host MBA is a 16-month, full-time, English-language programme in Shanghai.

Applicants pursue the fellowship through the MBA application service centre, and CEIBS requires corresponding materials for conditional fellowships.

Benefits & funding

CEIBS identifies this as a conditional fellowship for first-year MBA students.
CEIBS does not publish the fellowship’s award amount, coverage, or number of awards on its public pages.
MBA 2029 tuition is RMB 488,000; this is the programme cost, not the stated value of the fellowship.

Eligibility

Apply for admission to the CEIBS MBA 2029 class entering in 2027.
Hold a bachelor’s degree or above.
Have at least two years of full-time work experience.
Submit a GMAT, GRE, or CEIBS Admission Test score and demonstrate English proficiency.
CEIBS’s public pages state no hard nationality or residency rule for this fellowship; applicants must verify fellowship-specific conditions in the application service centre.

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Education required
Bachelor · Master · PhD
Experience required
≥ 2 yrs

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Application process

1
Complete the online CEIBS MBA application and submit all required documents before the deadline for the chosen round.
2
Select the European Talent Fellowship route and submit the corresponding conditional-fellowship materials in the application service centre.
3
If shortlisted, attend the CEIBS MBA admissions interview.
4
Receive the admission decision according to the published round schedule; CEIBS does not publish a separate fellowship decision date.

Program timeline

Early Action application deadline.
October 14, 2026
Early Action decision.
November 4, 2026
Round 1 application deadline.
December 2, 2026
Round 1 decision.
December 23, 2026
Round 2 application deadline.
March 17, 2027
Round 2 decision.
April 14, 2027
Round 3 and final application deadline.
May 19, 2027
Round 3 decision.
June 19, 2027
August 2027
MBA 2029 intake begins; CEIBS has not published the exact start day.