Dear Alumni, Students and Friends,

Hope life treats you well! Holiday season is approaching very soon. We  would like to take the special moment to write and wish you all Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

A lot of great things happened in 2015 with our school.

First of all, we have our 8th cohort for our China EMBA program in Beijing. This is a very dedicated and hard working cohort. Meanwhile, our fabulous executives from cohort 7 graduated in September in Maryland and Washington, D.C. after their memorable 18-month learning journey! We are very confident that these executives will make great contributions back to their companies and work with the knowledge and best practice learned from our fantastic professors and their peers.

Secondly, our Executive MBA has been ranked # 7 in the United States by Financial Times 2015, and # 1 program from public universities. This is a marvelous breakthrough!

Thirdly, our respectful professor Anil K. Gupta has been elected as one of the top Top 50 thinkers in the world on Management for the second time. He well deserves it considering his insight and knowledge on management and strategy in the emerging markets like China and India etc.

Last but not least,our university basketball team has been terrific and placed #1 in the Big Ten Conference right now for the regular seasons (we just beat Princeton last weekend...) The best player is from Smith! Go Terps!!!

We would like to thank every one of you for your great support you´ve given us, our program and our school. At the same time, we CARE about you and your development too! We are committed to support you whenever you are in need.

Again, we would like to wish you all a Fantastic Christmas and Prosperous New Year. May 2016 bring you and your beloved, health, happiness and success!

Go Terps! Merry Christmas!

University of Maryland

Robert H. Smith School of Business