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Top 17 Business schools based in China
RevenueBase identified 111 business schools headquartered in China as of September 2026 and tracks 5,580 professional contacts across them, including 279 with verified work emails. Shanghai is the largest hub.
This list covers business schools headquartered in China, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 17 largest business schools based in China
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 790 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Since its launch in 1994, the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) has solidified its reputation as the leading international business school in Asia and one of the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 511 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As China's first higher education institution to establish the educational system of Business Administration, the century-old Fudan University launched its business discipline as…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 322 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Education for a New Era of Global Business: Established in Beijing in November, 2002, CKGSB is a private, non-profit, independent educational institution and the only business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 292 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of International Business and Economics (UIBE; simplified Chinese; traditional Chinese; pinyin: Duiwai Jingji Maoyi Daxue abbr, Jingmao Daxue), is a university in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 249 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Southwestern University of Finance and Economics is a top university specialised in finance, Economics and business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 233 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1946, Sichuan Normal University (SICNU; Chinese:) is the oldest normal university located in Chengdu, Sichuan, China.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics (ZUFE) stands as one of China's premier public institutions dedicated to business and finance education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Antai College of Economics and Management (ACEM), Shanghai Jiao Tong University is a leading business school in China.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Shanghai Sanda University is a full-time private university founded by professors from Shanghai Jiaotong University, Peking University and Tsinghua University in June 1992 under…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF) was established at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in April 2009, with strategic and financial support from the Shanghai Municipal…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “International Business School Suzhou (IBSS) at Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University (XJTLU) offers a unique blend of Western and Chinese academic and business practices.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Business School of Hunan University, with a history of one hundred years, is situated at the foot of Yuelu Mountain and is adjacent to Yuelu Academy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Faculty of Business Administration (FBA) of the University of Macau is one of the longest-standing and the only business school in Macao that is accredited by the three major…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Nottingham University Business School China has been awarded the prestigious Triple Crown accreditation by AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA - a distinction held by fewer than 1% of business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The school's history dates back to 1950.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: business schools. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names business schools.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of business schools, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name business schools. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Business schools based in China at a glance
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Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for China, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for China, over 111 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among business schools, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in China whose own description of what they do matches “business schools”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names business schools), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among business schools, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside China are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 279 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names business schools, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many business schools are there based in China?
RevenueBase identified 111 business schools headquartered in China as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
China Europe International Business School Ceibs, headquartered in Pudong, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most business schools?
Shanghai leads with 15 headquartered companies, followed by Beijing (7) and Shenzhen (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 279 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 111 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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