A big win for big thinking: MA(PFE) recognised as an outstanding finance programme in the GBA

The Master of Arts in Personal Finance Education (MA(PFE)) programme has received the 2025 China Business School’s Greater Bay Area Master Programme Excellence Model Award, acknowledging its strong academic quality and its significant contribution to talent development and regional collaboration in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA). Dr Tan Weiqiang, Programme Leader of MA(PFE), accepted the award on behalf of the programme at the 2025 China Business School Development Forum and Education Grand Ceremony, co-organised by MBAChina and Manager magazine in Beijing in November 2025.

Recognised as one of the most prominent events in China’s business education sector, the annual forum featured keynote speeches, leadership dialogues, an awards presentation, and a networking gala. The Greater Bay Area Master Programme Excellence Model Award celebrates master’s programmes that integrate regional development priorities, demonstrate an outstanding educational philosophy, and achieve notable results in talent cultivation. Awarded programmes stand out in areas such as curriculum design, industry–academia–research collaboration, international engagement, and student practice, serving as exemplary models of higher education across the region.

The judging panel commended the innovativeness of the MA(PFE) programme as the first financial master’s programme in the GBA to integrate wealth management and financial planning. The programme was also highly praised for its alignment with Hong Kong’s strategic development as an international hub for wealth management and green finance.

The curriculum design, centred on personal and household finance and encompassing the three frontier fields of wealth management, green finance, and financial planning, also received strong acclaim. The panel further recognised the programme’s emphases on practice-based teaching and learning, industry collaboration, social responsibility and community engagement, and international collaboration.

Dr Tan Weiqiang from the Department of Social Sciences and Policy Studies (SSPS) remarked, “This award affirms the accomplishments of the University and the programme, and inspires us to continue advancing financial education in alignment with GBA development, talent cultivation, and global financial development trends.”

Dr Tan added that with the introduction of new modules such as Islamic Finance, Family Office Management in the 2025/26 academic year, and through closer collaborations with industrial experts and overseas universities, the programme remains closely attuned to the latest developments in Hong Kong’s financial services initiatives and national development strategy. He noted that new programme initiatives are also aligned with the objective of broadening students’ international perspectives.

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