The appraisal for scholarship nominations s has been conducted among MPA post-graduate students by the MPA Education Center. The criteria are based on the rules in “Graduate Student Comprehensive Assessment Measures for Implementation of the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics” and “Comprehensive Evaluation Supplementary Provisions for Graduate Students of the School of Public Economics and Administration”, upon which slight adjustments have been made considering the fact that all the students enrolled in the MPA program are on-job students.
The full grade of the comprehensive assessment is 100 in which 85% is of students’ course work grades, 10% of ideology and morality, and 5% of a comprehensive assessment grade. The detailed calculating method is as follow:
1. Course work grades:
Each applicant’s course work grades will be exported from the educational management system. An average score will be calculated on all marks of each course. 85% of the average mark will be counted into the final mark of the comprehensive assessment for the scholarship.
2. Ideology and morality:
Each Student will be marked on “attendance record” and “interactive activities” by their classmates within each of the Shanghai, Shaoshing, and Wenzhou class. A full score is 100 and 10% of each student’s score is counted into the final mark of the comprehensive assessment
3. The comprehensive assessment grade:
Extra scores up to 5 points could be added to students who have received honors, awards or prizes in academic research projects which must be during the time of enrollment till 9th September 2014.
The extra points can come from two areas - “society activities” and “research activities”.
Society Activities: 1 point for each award in class committee work or “excellent worker in the unit”. 0.5 point for students who have blood donation experience and 5 points for students who have received national-level award(s).
Academic Activities: 1 point for each of the following activities: joint writer of investigation reports, have published paper(s), or co-author of book(s).
Explained specially:
The Scholarship nomination excluded a student of the 2013 class, Dou Yili, for who currently works as the educational secretary in the Education Center. The teacher in charge of each class hand out the marking form to students to fill in, and is responsible for collecting all the necessary documents of students’ records of awards and prizes. The teacher calculated all the marks of each criterion to make a list of the final marks as the result of comprehensive assessment.
Considering the student number of each class of different region, the Committee originally decided to award scholarships based on the ratio 2:1:1. Therefore, the quota allocation is 16 scholarship nominations in total, including 8 for the Shanghai class, 4 for the Shaoshing class, and 4 for the Wenzhou class. However, the allocation of scholarship nominations were adjusted to 6 for Shanghai, 5 for Shaoshing, and 5 for Wenzhou for the reason that the students from Shaoshing and Wenzhou classes have more students with higher final grades in the assessment in general. The total number of nomination is the same.
According to the final result of the comprehensive assessment grades, the School now announces the suggested nominations for the scholarship of the MPA program in the following tables:
The First-class Scholarship
The Second-class Scholarship
The Third-class Scholarship
Above are the results and explanation of the appraisal process of the scholarship nomination for MPA students of the 2013 class. The public notice period will be 15 days. Should you have any concern or objection, please raise it to the MPA center.
The Education Center,
13-10-2014