China's business schools are brainstorming for ideas to lure Chinese entrepreneurs into their classrooms. "Almost 70 -80 percent of our students, CEO or senior executives in China's private businesses, said they are not interested in degree study when they come to business school," the dean of the overseas education college under the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, told China Daily. The university sponsored a 10-day tour of the US for 66 Chinese CEOs and business executives that included visits to Washington, Philadelphia and San Francisco in April. The tour included meetings with key international financial institutions and US government officials, and it is part of a one-year non-degree course at the university. A short term in the UK will be scheduled in the later half of this year. Those on the tour were from various industries, including real estate, manufacturing, mechanical equipment, energy, agriculture and food, logistics, electronic products and bilateral trading. Through the program, Chinese CEOs can join their US peers and international business leaders to learn from each other, and to forge stronger bonds to become increasingly more effective in attaining their mutual organizational and entrepreneurial goals. Beginning in 2013, delegates of Shanghai's Jiaotong University aligned with the world's top universities to develop practical, high-end courses for China's top business enterprises, incorporating the best thinking on innovation from Chinese and Western organisations.