SMXMU has 8 academic masters programmes and 5 professional master’s programmes. The academic masters programmes include accounting, business administration, finance, entrepreneurship, management science and engineering, technology economics and management, tourism administration, and marketing. The professional master’s programmes include MBA, EMBA, MPAcc, MTA, and ME.      

Academic master’s programme objectives call for students to build a solid and systematic theoretical foundation and develop strong research and innovation capabilities, practical skills, and professional ethics, as well as to provide qualified candidates for doctoral programmes.

The professional master’s has specialised and generalized programmes. Specialised programmes include MPAcc, ME, and MTA. Generalised programmes include MBA and EMBA. MBA aims to cultivate managers for specific professions capable of meeting the challenges of globalisation with the ‘5Cs’ of competitiveness, confidence, cooperativeness, creativity and credibility. EMBA’s objective is to cultivate business elites with distinguished leadership, strategic vision, global perspective and a keen sense of social responsibility.

The University specifies application requirements and procedures for each programme. Applicants must pass the strict written and oral entrance examination before taking the second-round examination (excluding undergraduates). The School designs evaluation criteria according to the programme objective. For example, academic master’s candidates are evaluated primarily on academic ability and research interests and potential, whereas professional master’s candidates are evaluated on such practical skills as communication, coordination and leadership.