International Master in Fine Arts

The three-year international Master in Fine Arts (iMFA) program under the guidance of the Institute of Radio, Film, and Television, equips students with practical skills like script writing, film and television production, and new media audio-visual editing. Our students will take academic and practice-based courses with faculty members from CMIC, while having the opportunity to choose business-related courses at ZIBS. Mentors of this program graduated from world-class universities like the University of Michigan and the University of Art in Berlin. Established practitioners are hired as visiting scholars.

About Zhejiang University

Zhejiang University (ZJU) is one of China’s top higher education institutions, as well as one of its oldest; its roots can be traced back to 1897 and the founding of the Qiushi Academy.

Located in Hangzhou – one of China’s most picturesque cities – the University is organized across seven faculties and 37 schools. It is home to 4,191 full-time faculty members, including 52 members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. ZJU has 60,739 full-time students, over 56% of whom are postgraduate students.

Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)

• National Ranking #3
• World Ranking #52
• QS World University Ranking 2023 # 42
• Asia University Ranking 2023 # 6
• ARWU World Ranking # 36

Connecting the World, Shaping the Future

Zhejiang University International Business School (ZIBS) was founded on the ZJU International Campus at Haining in November 2018 to facilitate academic and corporate exchange between the West and the East.

Our newly founded business school has accelerated ZJU global initiatives and is set to become a leading global business school in the era of the new economy. ZIBS is headquartered in the Yangtze River Delta, a hub of innovation and one of the world’s most dynamic regions.

Cultural Creativity in Metaverse Industry Research Center (CCMI)

ZIBS and CMIC highly value the opportunities in the field of the digital economy and digital culture development.

The foundation of Cultural Creativity in Metaverse Industry Research Center (CCMI) is aimed at cultivating first-class talents who are interested in cross-cultural communication and the digital culture industry. CCMI regularly invites experts and scholars well-known at home and abroad to seminars and lecture series, so that the teachers and students of ZIBS and CMIC can see the big picture of the trend in industries like metaverse, cross-cultural communication, metahuman, and e-sports. CCMI intends to inspire students to dig into cutting-edge digital fields and promote communication between domestic and overseas academia on relevant research topics.

CCMI has held the “Z Talk” lecture series and invited guests from:

• Global Media and Communications at Cardiff University
• Imperial College Business School
• University of Wisconsin
• University of Nottingham
• School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University
• School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University
• Queen Mary, University of London
• ByteDance
• Department of Economics, Stanford University