Lingnan International MBA program was launched in 1999 and jointly developed with MIT Sloan School of Management. It is one of MIT Sloan's three China Management Education Projects and the other two are the distinguished Chinese educational institutions - Tsinghua University (Beijing) and Fudan University (Shanghai). In the IMBA program, all courses are instructed in English and MIT Sloan MBA curriculum and teaching methods are adopted in the program, together with textbooks, cases, and other teaching materials. The IMBA students will be awarded the Master of Business Administration degree of Sun Yat-sen University together with MIT Sloan certificate upon graduation