MA in Leading Innovation and Change from Shanghai, China
What could you change next? Study the MA in Leading Innovation and Change online while living in Shanghai, China. Offered in an exclusive partnership between York St John University and Robert Kennedy College, the programme gives you ideas and frameworks you can apply across industries and international settings—without putting your life in Shanghai on hold.
Earn an internationally recognised British degree
Graduate with a British degree awarded by York St John University. Its international recognition can help you communicate the value of your qualification as you pursue opportunities in Shanghai or beyond.
Alongside the credential, you can build a deeper understanding of how organisations respond to change, develop ideas and lead people through uncertainty. It is knowledge you can bring to conversations across borders and sectors.
Study 100% online
The programme can be completed entirely online, so you can work towards your degree without relocating or commuting to a campus. Your learning can remain part of your life in Shanghai.
Online study also lets you make productive use of time that might otherwise be spent travelling to classes. Whether you are advancing in your current role or preparing for a new direction, you can keep moving towards your goal from where you are.
Learn without fixed attendance times
You do not need to be online at specific times and dates to attend classes. That flexibility can make it easier to fit study around work, family commitments and the changing demands of a busy week.
Instead of arranging your life around a live lecture schedule, you can plan when to engage with the material. It is a practical way to keep learning, even when your calendar does not look the same from one week to the next.
Take your studies wherever you go
Study from Shanghai, elsewhere in China or anywhere else your plans take you. The mobile app lets you download study materials and watch lectures offline, so travel need not interrupt your progress.
You might review a lecture during a journey or return to course materials while away from your usual workspace. Your studies can travel with you, giving you more opportunities to turn available moments into meaningful learning.
Show your understanding through open-book assessments
Rather than classical question-and-answer exams, the programme uses open-book assessments. They give you an opportunity to engage with ideas and resources as you develop your responses.
This approach can help you focus on interpreting concepts, making connections and explaining your reasoning. Those habits matter when leading innovation and change, where the challenge is often deciding how to apply what you know.
Learn with internationally educated faculty
Study with tutors and faculty whose educational backgrounds include world-renowned institutions such as Oxford, Harvard, EPFL, the University of Basel and Washington University in St. Louis.
Learning from educators with varied academic experiences can broaden the perspectives you bring to leadership challenges. It is an opportunity to examine established thinking while developing your own approach to innovation and change.
Join a global learning community
Robert Kennedy College has a diverse student base spanning more than 130 countries. Studying alongside people with different professional and cultural experiences can challenge your assumptions and enrich discussions about how change happens.
Its alumni work for international organisations including Tencent, ICBC Bank, ICBC Standard Bank, AIA, Sinopec, PetroChina, CNOOC, RYB Educations, JKFZ Cambridge International School, SAIC, the United Nations, Google, ICRC, the World Bank, Microsoft, Intel, Samsung, Siemens and Sony.
Plan your payments
Programme fees can be paid in up to 18 monthly interest-free instalments. Spreading payments across the available instalment period may help you plan alongside your other commitments.
That clarity can make it easier to consider how postgraduate study fits into your plans. You can focus on choosing the right time to begin and the goals you want your learning to support.
Bring new perspectives to Shanghai’s industries
Shanghai’s financial services sector offers a setting in which organisations must adapt to changing customer expectations, technology and regulation. The programme’s approaches to leading change could help graduates think more clearly about introducing new ways of working while bringing colleagues and stakeholders along.
In Shanghai’s technology and advanced manufacturing sectors, promising ideas need people who can guide them from proposal to practice. Graduates may be able to apply what they learn when coordinating teams, encouraging innovation or navigating organisational change around new products and processes.
Shanghai’s role in trade and logistics also creates opportunities to think across organisational and geographic boundaries. Whether working with supply chains, international partners or service teams, graduates can use the programme’s internationally applicable ideas to consider how change can be led thoughtfully and collaboratively.
Ready to explore where this degree could take you? Request our course catalogue to learn more about studying online from Shanghai.