1. College of Business Administration
The College of Business Administration offers five undergraduate programs: Business Administration, Marketing, Retailing Management, Financial Management, and Accounting, as well an MBA program. The college has two school-level research institutions (the Institute of Enterprise Management and the Center for International Business and Strategic Development Research), and also one national-level experimental teaching demonstration center for modern circulation.
The college offers the national-level first-class undergraduate specialty of business administration and the municipal-level first-class undergraduate programs in Marketing and Accounting, and is a pioneer in the specialty of retailing management nationwide. Its business administration and marketing are the first batch of specialties accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP). In view of the development of new business studies, new demands, new models, and new development of technologies, the college has advanced the construction of first-class undergraduate specialties and first-class specialties, aiming to cultivate modern business management talents with Internet thinking, innovative and entrepreneurial abilities, and international view and meet the demands of the construction of “Five Centers” and “Four Brands” in Shanghai and the new development of commerce in China for high-quality application-oriented business talents.
The discipline of business administration offered by the college focuses on commercial circulation and characteristic business fields, and is rated as Shanghai Higher Education Institutions First-Class Discipline (Class B) Construction Program, Shanghai Higher Education Institutions Key Discipline in the “12th Five-year Plan” Period, and Provincial Key Discipline Construction Program “Supported by Central Fiscal Funds”.
The college has a strong teaching staff composed of nationally recognized business research experts, doctors from well-known colleges and universities at home and abroad, “overseas famous teachers” from Oxford University and other world-class institutions of higher learning, and enterprise mentors who are senior executives in domestic established corporations. They have won many individual and collective awards and honorary titles, including “Baosteel Outstanding Teacher Award”, “Shanghai Municipal-level Outstanding Teacher Award”, “Outstanding Young Teachers at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning”, “Lifetime Contribution Award for Chain Store & Franchise Operations in China”, “ Shanghai Municipal Award for Bringing up Talents”, “Coastal Sage Leading Talents”, “Shanghai Municipal Magnolia Award”, “Shanghai Municipal-level Teaching Team”, and “Shanghai Municipal Education Pioneer”.
The college has undertaken more than 200 national and ministerial-level longitudinal projects and industry and enterprise-level latitudinal projects, published more than 600 papers and 70 textbooks and monographs, and carried out massive policy-making consulting studies on policy research and industry and enterprise development for Shanghai municipality and the Ministry of Commerce. The research achievements of teachers at the college have received notices of commendation from the National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences, and have been submitted to related government departments for internal policy-making reference. The college has also won one second prize of the national teaching achievement award, and one first prize and two second prizes of the municipal teaching achievement award.
The college has established close cooperative relationships with Fudan University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and many other domestic well-known colleges and universities, and begun to enroll Master students for the specialties of “international business” and “enterprise management”. Besides, the college has engaged in teaching, research, and teacher/student exchanges with many overseas prestigious colleges and universities, including Oxford University in the UK, University of Zurich in Switzerland, Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada, and Georgia State University in the US. The college is also the only authorized unit of City & Guilds (an international authority on professional qualification certification). Each year the college subsidizes outstanding students for overseas exchanges, study, internship, and Master degrees in the US, Canada, the UK, Denmark, etc.
The college is known for its ideal academic atmosphere and for the strong innovative and practical abilities of its students. In recent years, about 50% of students have taken part in all kinds of innovative and entrepreneurial contests, club activities, and scientific research projects, and more than 100 students have won awards in international, national, and municipal-level contests. In the past three years, the students of the college have published 95 research papers, performed well in disciplinary contests, and won one national-level award, 26 national-level awards, and 39 municipal-level awards.
In recent years, the college’s employment rate has remained above 98%. Each year, the college receives joyful news of its students being admitted by domestic well-known universities (such as “Project 985” and “Project 211” universities) and overseas top 100 prestigious institutions of higher learning for further study. A majority of the graduates of the college are employed by domestic and overseas large and medium-sized enterprises in the fields of commerce, trade, Internet, banking, etc. Some graduates go on to pass the civil service examination and enter government agencies, or sign a labor contract with public institutions. The graduates of the college have been widely recognized by the society for their high quality.
The college has always paid close attention to the reform of talent cultivation models. To create favorable conditions for cultivating high-quality talents, the college has developed long-term stable industry and enterprise cooperative relationships with many famous commercial chain and retail enterprises (such as JD, Starbucks, SF, Wal-Mart, Carrefour, Alibaba, Yonghui Superstores, Bailian Group, Gome Electrical Appliances, and Suning Commerce) and industry associations (including China Chain Operation Association, China General Chamber of Commerce, and Shanghai Chain Enterprises Association).
The college serves as Vice Chairman of the Expert Committee of China Association of Trade in Services, Vice Managing Director of the School-enterprise Cooperation Committee of China Chain Operation Association, Vice President of the Chinese Society for Business Management at Institutions of Higher Learning, and Vice President Unit of the Association of Shanghai Commercial Enterprise Management. In the future, the college will strengthen disciplinary connotations construction, highlight priorities, and stress coordinated development, striving to build a college of business administration characterized by prominent specialty advantages, distinctive disciplinary features, top talent quality, and positive social influence.
(1) Retailing Management（Undergraduate, Availability of Language for Instruction: Chinese）
Training goals
This major cultivates application-oriented talents who understand Chinese politics, economy, culture and society, with ability of Chinese communication, sense of social responsibility, ability of practice, innovative spirit and international vision. This undergraduate course enables international students to know about the modern retail management theory, to be familiar with retail practice , features of operation, and management module. With a better ability of retail analysis and management, an international vision and cross-cultural communication ability, the students will understand the new trend of retailing development and how to adapt to it and serve the construction of “Five Centers”in Shanghai, so to become internationalized, interdisciplinary and application-oriented high-quality business talents, to promote the communication and friendly cooperation between China and foreign countries.
Job orientations
The graduates are engaged in managing positions in various retailing entity headquarters, regions, stores, online shops and distribution centers; or in other business- or service-related managing positions, etc.
Specialty features
Newly established by the Ministry of Education in 2017, this major is the first of its kind in Chinese universities and a pilot major for business education excellence at school. It originated from the undergraduate program in Chain Operation Management established by Shanghai Business School in 2005 and the Business Administration (Retail Management) program introduced in 2013, has been awarded the Shanghai University Undergraduate Education Highland Construction Project, Characteristic Major of Nation, and the initial group of pilot construction of application-oriented undergraduate transformation in Shanghai.It is a core discipline of the first-class undergraduate construction project in Shanghai. It has won the first prize of teaching achievement in Shanghai and the second prize of national teaching achievement. This major has accumulated rich experience and achievements in the field of chain retail, and has been ranked A+ in the Best Chinese University Majors for three consecutive years since 2021.
This major consists of municipal-level College of double qualified teachers, both full- and part-time, who wrote and published the first set of undergraduate textbooks on retail management, and is equipped with first-class new retail laboratory and featured off-campus practice teaching base nationwide. The occupational standard on China retail by City & Guilds, the international authoritative occupational qualification organization, was set here. This major also has in-depth cooperation with large retail enterprises both home and abroad, as well as universities and research institutes, providing the opportunities of international exchange and internship to our students.
Basic Professional Courses
Management Marketing
Economics Retailing
Strategic Management Retailing Operation Management
Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Plan and Layout of Retail Enterprise
Online Retailing Management Human Resource Management
Principle of Accounting Financial Management
Category Management Business Big Data Analysis
Fashion and Luxury Management
(2) Marketing (Undergraduate, Availability of Language for Instruction: Chinese)
Training goals
This major cultivates application-oriented talents who understand Chinese politics, economy, culture and society, with ability of Chinese communication, sense of social responsibility, ability of practice, innovative spirit and international vision. This undergraduate course enables international students to respect ethics and abide by laws, to know about the basic theories of economics, management and marketing, to have internet thinking, innovative and entrepreneurial awareness, an international vision and team spirit, to know about the marketing workflow and be capable of analyzing business data, identifying, analyzing and solving practical marketing problems. As internationalized, interdisciplinary and application-oriented high-quality business talents, the students will adapt themselves to the new demands of the market economy development in the era of digital intelligence, while promoting the communication and friendly cooperation between China and foreign countries.
Job orientations
The graduates are mainly engaged in market research, marketing planning, sales promotion, customer service, public relations management and other related business and management in the marketing department, sales department of enterprises and relevant government departments.
Specialty features
The Marketing major is a first-class undergraduate construction site in Shanghai (2021), an internationally accredited major by ACBSP (Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs) in 2019, and a pilot applied undergraduate major in Shanghai in 2017. This major focuses on the field of commerce and marketing, guided by the direction of digital intelligence, oriented towards practice, and aims to cultivate top-notch applied business talents who possess theoretical knowledge of marketing, new media technology, big data analysis, and various composite skills to meet the new demands of economic development in Shanghai and the country.
The major boasts a team of teachers combining expertise and practical experience, emphasizing the development of a curriculum group for "digital marketing," complemented by a leading AI-SaaS intelligent marketing laboratory in China. It collaborates with well-known domestic and foreign enterprises and institutions such as Hema Fresh under Alibaba Group, Shanghai Bailian, Sam's Club under Walmart in the United States, Lawson in Japan, Lian Shang Network, and Shanghai Brand Association to explore new collaborative education models. Through the establishment of enterprise marketing practice centers, self-owned brand industry research institutes, and other means, it provides students with high-quality practical internship and employment opportunities.
ACBSP is a prestigious accreditation body for business majors in the United States, certifying the quality of outstanding teaching achievements. This major precisely benchmarks ACBSP's international accreditation standards and has undertaken comprehensive professional development initiatives in strategic planning, curriculum design, student focus, and other aspects. In 2019, it became the first marketing major in China to pass the ACBSP international accreditation. Building upon this achievement, the major actively engages in international exchange and cooperation, inviting overseas experts to offer international courses. It maintains good cooperative relationships with universities in countries and regions such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand, providing students with diverse opportunities for international exchange and learning to broaden their international perspectives.
Basic Professional Courses
Management Economics
Marketing Management Statistics
Marketing Research Data Marketing
Consumer Behavior Customer Relationship Management
Internet Marketing Sales Management
Advertising New Venture Creation
International Marketing Business Operation Management
(3) Financial Management (Undergraduate, Availability of Language for Instruction: Chinese)
Training goals
This major cultivates application-oriented talents who understand Chinese politics, economy, culture and society, with ability of Chinese communication, sense of social responsibility, ability of practice, innovative spirit and international vision. This undergraduate course enables international students to have profound humanistic literacy, solid knowledge and competence of financial management, high standard of ethics, so they will become business talents of high-quality.
Job orientations
The graduates are engaged in management accounting related work e.g. financial planning, financial decision-making, financial control and financial evaluation in enterprises, institutions and agencies, with competence of related positions of financial management business, management accounting practice, financial consulting services, etc. in domestic and foreign enterprises, commercial banks, accounting firms, and financial companies.
Specialty features
This major cultivates professional talents with solid theoretical foundation, strong practical application ability, fulfilling the requirements during social development, and with competence of theoretical and practical departments. We focus on basic theory and practical capability, so the students will know about the basic knowledge and have specialized skills of the subject. At the same time, the academic education is integrated with the vocational qualification education of American Certified Management Accountant (CMA) , by means of various simulated training and corporate internship, enabling the students to make decisions in analyzing and solving financial management practice with basic financial strategy analysis.
This major is one of the earliest financial management majors featuring management accounting in China. Linking with the knowledge system of American Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and integrating accounting, finance and management, it cultivate students by various means of CO-OP university-enterprise cooperation, etc., fusing theoretical teaching with practical application.This major fulfills the basic requirements on the comprehensive financial management capabilities to the financial professional in context of current business environment. Quite practicable and operational, it features "academic education+ international vocational qualification" and cultivates financial management talents of double-certificate.
Basic Professional Courses
Financial Management，CMA Management Accounting，CMA
Financial Markets and Financial Institutions Cost Management，CMA
Financial Plan, CMA Financial Analysis, CMA
Strategic Management，CMA Financial Reporting, CMA
Internal Control and Risk Management, CMA
(4) Accounting (Undergraduate, Availability of Language for Instruction: Chinese)
Training goals
This major aims to cultivate application-oriented talents who are knowledgeable about China's politics, economy, culture, and society, with proficiency in Chinese communication, a sense of social responsibility, practical abilities, entrepreneurial spirit, and an international perspective. After completing undergraduate education, international students will systematically acquire knowledge in accounting, master accounting standards, and be familiar with accounting and financial logic, data analysis logic, and computer application logic. They will also possess knowledge and skills in economics, management, and law. These talents will be capable of engaging in accounting practices and teaching management in both profit and non-profit organizations, while promoting international exchange and cooperation. The goal is to produce high-quality, international, and interdisciplinary business professionals with practical skills.
Job orientations
Graduates can work in enterprises, public institutions, commercial banks, accounting firms, government departments, and other sectors in roles such as accounting, auditing, financial management, management accounting, and financial consulting.
Specialty features
The Accounting program is a key undergraduate program in Shanghai and is recognized as one of Shanghai's leading programs. It is a pilot unit for the integration of undergraduate and graduate education in Shanghai and is a key business program at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. The program also serves as a training base for the Master's degree in Accounting (MPAcc). It holds the prestigious status as a "Golden Teaching Institution" authorized by ACCA's headquarters. The research results of the "VAT Reform Pilot Program" led by the Department of Accounting were recognized in the 2018 "Shanghai Reform and Opening-up Landmark Initiatives" award. The program aligns with the knowledge systems of the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CICPA) and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), with a strong focus on developing accounting professionals proficient in both Chinese and international accounting and auditing standards. The program is led by experienced faculty and supported by an excellent teaching team in both theoretical and practical aspects.
Basic Professional Courses
Management Economics
Statistics Principles of Accounting
Intermediate Financial Accounting Advanced Financial Accounting
Management Accounting Cost Accounting
Auditing Financial Management
Financial Analysis
2. College of Hospitality Management
Upholding the education philosophy of “rooting in business, basing in Shanghai, serving the nation, and opening up to the whole world”, the college adopts the education orientation of cultivating “internationalized, application-oriented, and interdisciplinary” talents, and develops an interdisciplinary pattern based on the three specialties of hospitality management, tourism management, and food quality and safety, aiming to improve the traditional commercial (business) service industry. The school offers three undergraduate specialties (hospitality management, tourism management, and food quality and safety), which are inter-correlated with their respective features. In 2012, the fourth undergraduate education highland construction project in Shanghai, Practical Exploration of an International Talent Cultivation Model for the Specialty of Hospitality Management, successfully passed the acceptance by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission. Since 2013, the specialty of hospitality management has been included among the first batch of “Undergraduate Teaching Project” comprehensive reform experimental specialties at local institutions of higher learning under the Ministry of Education, and rated as an “Undergraduate Teaching Project” college student off-campus practice & education base at local institutions of higher learning under the Ministry of Education. In 2015, it was included in the first batch of application-oriented undergraduate experimental specialties in institutions of higher learning under Shanghai municipality. In 2018, it was included among the first batch of specialties under the first-class undergraduate specialty construction leading program at institutions of higher learning under Shanghai municipality. In 2019, it passed ACBSP international certification, and was included among the first batch of “national-level first-class undergraduate specialties” under the Ministry of Education. In 2020, it passed academic certification by EHL. The specialty of tourism management was rated in 2017 as an application-oriented undergraduate experimental specialty in institutions of higher learning under Shanghai municipality. The specialty of food quality and safety was rated in 2018 as an application-oriented undergraduate experimental specialty in institutions of higher learning under Shanghai municipality. In 2021, the Master degree program for the specialty of tourism management was granted (research direction: hotel operations and management, and regional tourism development and management).
The college has a vibrant, experienced, and well-structured teaching staff with international view and high academic level and professional titles. Currently, the college has a total of 56 teaching and administrative staff members, including six teachers with senior professional titles, 14 teachers with sub-senior professional titles, full-time teachers with a doctoral degree or above (80%), members of the Ministry of Education's Steering Committee on Tourism Management Specialties at Higher Educational Institutions, local talents elected into the “Thousand Talents Programme”, and local leading talents. The teachers of the college have all achieved high academic levels and accumulated rich teaching experience in their respective areas of expertise. Most of them also have rich experience working at enterprises, and have obtained the certificates of Certified Hospitality Educator (CHE) and Certified Hospitality Trainer (CHT) issued by American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA), as well as other senior professional qualification certificates such as European Coffee Taster Certificate and Registered Dietitian Certificate. The college has two research institutions, namely, Real Estate Finance & Big Data Research Center and Starwood Hotel Management Research Center. In recent years, it has undertaken multiple projects sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
For the purpose of “offering all-round quality services for students”, the college takes an employment-oriented approach, and is dedicated to cultivating high-end culture, tourism, business, and trade talents with professional attainment, practical ability, innovative spirit, international view, and a strong sense of social responsibility. The college has topped the list of colleges and universities in Shanghai for years in terms of employment rate, and stayed ahead in the postgraduate examination in terms of both passing rate and admission rate.
The college has access to abundant teaching resources, and is one of the first batch of “Undergraduate Teaching Project” college student management science practice & teaching bases, an intensified training base in China for the Hotel Reception Project of the 45th WorldSkills Competition, and an intensified training base in Shanghai for the Hotel Reception Project of the 46th WorldSkills Competition. In addition, the college has built 18 on-campus laboratories, four joint practice & teaching centers, and 69 off-campus internship bases, and engaged in joint talent cultivation with many hotel groups (such as Marriott, ACCOR Hotels, InterContinental Hotel Group, Hengshan and JINMAO) and Bright Dairy and other enterprises. Its aim is to build a first-class, world-renowned college of hospitality management based on industry-teaching integration and characterized by “the collaboration among enterprises, universities, research institutes, and users”.
Hospitality Management (Undergraduate, Availability of Language for Instruction: English)
Training goals
The specialty is dedicated to cultivating application-oriented talents with practical ability, innovative and entrepreneurial spirit, international view, and a strong sense of social responsibility, who understand China’s politics, economy, culture, and society and are capable of communicating in Chinese. After receiving undergraduate education, international students are expected to meet the development demands of the international hospitality industry and other related industries; equip themselves with the professional knowledge, attitudes, skills, and growth ability required of professionals in the international hospitality industry; cultivate high ideological quality, humanistic quality, innovative spirit, and entrepreneurial ability, and a strong sense of social responsibility in themselves; understand the frontier development trends and master the operations and management methods and means in the international hospitality industry and other related industries; and grow into internationalized, interdisciplinary, and application-oriented high-quality business talents that contribute to Sino-foreign friendly exchanges and cooperation.
Job orientations
1. Operations and management posts at international brand hotels and modern high-end leisure resorts, home-stays, and clubs, including their departments of human resources, marketing, financial, revenue management, and dining management;
2. Hospitality-related investment development and consulting industries, such as tourist hospitality consulting and management, e-commerce, and health industry consulting management companies;
3. High-end service, exhibition, luxury goods, and other related industries;
4. Government agencies and industry associations.
Specialty features
As the first batch of undergraduate specialties of hospitality management under Shanghai municipality, the specialty of hospitality management at SBS has dared to blaze new trails and risen to the challenges for the past decade. Relying on the orientation of Shanghai as an international metropolis, the specialty has made great endeavors to meet the demands of the “Belt and Road” Initiative, the development of the Yangtze River Delta region, and the construction of “Five Centers” and “Four Brands” in Shanghai, and play an active role in the construction of the modern service industry and other novel industries systems in Shanghai. Depending on the advantages of specialty and discipline groups, it has highlighted its features as a specialty in a business college and geared to the standards of the “four-in-one school-running orientation” (“industry, teaching, learning, and research), aiming to cultivate talents with international vision, strategic insight, solid theoretical quality, and strong practical ability. In 2019, the specialty was selected as one of the first batch of national-level first-class undergraduate specialties under the Ministry of Education, and built an intensified training base in Shanghai for the Hospitality Reception Project of the WorldSkills Competition. It enjoys high popularity and fine reputation among similar specialties nationwide. Following the guiding ideas of “gearing to international standards, adapting to industrial demands, and serving the development of Shanghai”, the specialty takes it as its goals to cultivate “application-oriented management talents for international brand hospitalities and related types of business”, and to build a nationally well-known, advanced featured specialty with international influence. The specialty has also established a talent cultivation model based on in-depth industry-university-research cooperation with many international hotel groups (such as ACCOR Hotels, Marriott, and InterContinental Hotel Group) and enterprises (Hengshan, Greenland Group, Debenham Thouard Zadelhoff, and DisneyQuest), and its graduates have been highly recognized by the industry for their high employment rate and strong career development ability. In recent years, the specialty has introduced continuous innovations and reforms in terms of teaching staff, talent cultivation, curriculum system, and industry-teaching integration, trying to explore an application-oriented, innovative, and internationalized path of specialty construction for local undergraduate colleges and universities.
High-standard, innovative orientation: by gearing to international standards, adapting to industrial demands, and embodying Shanghai local features and working closely with well-known hospitality groups both at home and abroad, the specialty aims to cultivate senior management talents with high competitiveness on the job market for the hospitality and tourism industries.
Internationalized and specialized teaching staff: The specialty has built a highly educated, internationalized, and bipolar teaching staff, and hired prestigious scholars as distinguished professors from the EHL, the college of Hospitality Management of Cornell University, the college of Hospitality Management of Oklahoma State University, and many other world-renowned colleges of hospitality management. In addition, it has developed an internationalized part-time teaching staff based on the structure of “distinguished overseas famous teachers + “Talent Revolving Door” system professors + foreign senior executives from international hotel groups”, and configured its backbone teaching force according to the criteria of “doctoral degree + internationally certified professional qualification certificates”.
Modularized and application-oriented curriculum: the specialty has developed a curriculum system based on business literacy courses, framed by specialty courses, backed by industrial courses, characterized by all-English courses, highlighted by major and shared courses, and college-enterprise co-built courses by gearing to world-class and internationally certified courses. Meanwhile, the specialty also stresses the combination of theoretical learning and practical applications, trying to build a composite model based on simulated decision-making + technical applications + professional quality.
Diversified and featured internships: relying on geographical advantages of Shanghai as a city headquartered by international hospitality groups, the specialty offers numerous internship and employment opportunities for its students at international hospitality groups. It also cooperates with many international hospitality brands and local hospitality groups to build open and shared internship and employment platforms.
In-depth cooperation and dual-degree programs: The specialty has developed dual-degree programs with EHL and Northern Arizona University, and established cooperative relationships with Oklahoma State University in the US and the Glion Institute of Higher Education in Montreux, Switzerland for joint cultivation and in-depth teacher/student exchanges. These programs have broadened the vision of teachers and students, and won the favor of numerous students.
Basic Professional Courses
Introduction to Tourism Hospitality Industry
Travel Destination Management Tourism Consumer Behavior
Introduction to Hospitality Management Hospitality Operation Management
Hospitality Customer Management Hotel Housekeeping Management
Hotel Food & Beverage Management Hotel Human Resources Management
Information Systems for Hospitality Management Hotel Financial Management
Hotel Revenue Management Hotel Asset Management
Hotel Strategic Management
3. College of Business and Economics
The College of Business and Economics offers five undergraduate programs: International Economics and Trade, Taxation, Finance, Business and Economics, and Economic Statistics. It also offers two professional master’s degree programs: Master of International Business (MIB) and Master of Finance (MF). Among these, Applied Economics is listed as a key discipline in Shanghai (Category II) and is supported by research platforms at the provincial and ministerial level, such as the Shanghai Municipal Government Decision-Making Consulting Research Base and the Research Base for Humanities and Social Sciences of Shanghai Universities. The “New Financial Wisdom Learning Factory” project has been approved by the Ministry of Education’s School Planning and Development Center. The college has also established one national Party Building Model Branch under the Ministry of Education.
The college is committed to building a high-quality, professional, and dynamic teaching team with a strong sense of ethics, expertise, and a balanced structure. Currently, it consists of 81 full-time teachers, 32 of whom hold senior professional titles (39.5%), and 88.89% of the faculty members hold doctoral degrees. Additionally, the college has more than 60 external mentors and part-time teachers from businesses and other universities both within China and abroad. The college has one recipient of the Shanghai “Talent Cultivation Award,” one Shanghai Leading Talent (Overseas) and Shanghai Class A Talent, two Shanghai Pujiang Scholars, one Shanghai Young Oriental Scholar, and two Shanghai Morning Light Scholars. Two faculty members have won awards in municipal-level or higher teaching competitions, including one who received the Third Prize in the First National Teaching Innovation Competition for University Teachers, the First Prize in the First Shanghai University Teachers Teaching Innovation Competition (for local university associate professors), the Teaching Activity Innovation Award, the Teaching Academic Innovation Award, and the Excellent Grassroots Teaching Organization Award. Another faculty member was honored with the “Model Female Worker” title in the Shanghai Education System. The Finance Department, International Trade Department, and Business Economics Department have all been awarded the “Female Civilization Post” in the Shanghai Education System.
In the past five years, the college has led six projects funded by the National Social Science Foundation and the National Natural Science Foundation, along with 26 general projects funded by the Ministry of Education and other provincial and ministerial-level entities. They have also undertaken more than 40 applied research projects. Over 280 high-level academic papers have been published in international and domestic academic journals such as Management Science and Economic Research. The college has published 11 books and served as editors for seven textbooks. More than 40 policy advisory reports have been submitted to provincial and ministerial leaders, receiving feedback or adoption.
In 2021, the International Economics and Trade program was approved as a National First-Class Undergraduate Program. The Finance and Business Economics programs were approved as First-Class Undergraduate Programs in Shanghai. Over the past five years, the college has developed 13 key undergraduate courses recognized by the Shanghai Education Commission, three First-Class Courses in Shanghai, two Demonstration Courses for Ideological and Political Education at the municipal level, one of the first New Liberal Arts Research and Reform Practice Projects, and one Second Prize in the Shanghai Teaching Achievement Award.
The college actively promotes cooperation and exchange with foreign universities. It has developed international exchange programs with several universities in Europe, the U.S., and other regions. For years, the college has also hosted a “2+2” joint student training model (two years of study at home and abroad) at the undergraduate level, continually strengthening the cultivation of international talent.
The college fully supports students’ participation in various professional and academic competitions. In the past five years, students have won numerous awards at provincial and municipal levels, including a Silver Medal in the “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition and a Bronze Medal in the “Challenge Cup” Shanghai University Student Entrepreneurship Plan Competition. At the national level, students have won multiple First and Second Prizes in the National Academic English Vocabulary Competition, a National Third Prize in the National College Student Mathematics Competition, First Prizes in the National Commercial Elite Challenge, and First Prizes in the National Foreign Trade Documentation Skills Competition, among others. In 2020, the team achieved First Prize in the American College Student Mathematical Modeling Competition.
Finance (Undergraduate, Availability of Languages for Instruction: English)
Training goals
The specialty is dedicated to cultivating application-oriented financial talents with practical ability, innovative and entrepreneurial spirit, international view, and a strong sense of social responsibility, who understand China’s politics, economy, culture, and society and are capable of communicating in Chinese. After receiving undergraduate education featured of solid foundation, strong skills, and multiple paths, international students are expected to accumulate rich professional knowledge; cultivate profound humanistic quality and high moral integrity; obtain relevant qualifications for financial practitioners; be able to engage in investment decision analysis and wealth management in financial institutions, enterprises, and public institutions; and grow into internationalized, interdisciplinary, and application-oriented high-quality business talents that contribute to Sino-foreign friendly exchanges and cooperation.
Job orientations
Graduates from the specialty of finance can find employment with government agencies, public institutions, enterprises, and financial institutions, including commercial banks, investment banks, fund companies, securities companies, large-sized multinational companies, private equity investment companies, and insurance companies, and engage in jobs related to financial management, investment/financing decision analysis, wealth management, etc.
Specialty features
The specialty of finance is a Shanghai municipal-level first-class undergraduate specialty and an experimental specialty for excellent business education. It has constructed the knowledge system of US CFA, ACMCS, and financial science and technology, and geared to international and industrial standards. By integrating the resources of high-quality specialty teachers and mature domestic and overseas teaching forces, the specialty has built a strong CFA team competent for all-English teaching. The specialty has perfectly integrated Sino-US “2+2” dual-degree programs and CO-OP college-enterprise cooperation into the whole process of talent cultivation, and effectively constructed a curriculum system combining CFA courses and practice and training courses, with the purposing of cultivating investment decision analysis and wealth management abilities in students through a full utilization of on-campus practical training bases.
Students in their third year at SBS, after passing related tests, can choose to study for “2+2” degrees at West Virginia University in the US. After graduation, these qualified students will obtain undergraduate degrees, one issued by SBS and the other by West Virginia University.
Basic Professional Courses
Finance Financial Risk Management
Economics，CFA Financial Statement Analysis
Ethical and Professional Standards，CFA Econometrics，CFA
Financial Market，CFA Investment，CFA
International Finance，CFA Corporate Finance，CFA
Financial Engineering，CFA
4. College of Business Information
The college attaches great importance to the cultivation of applied business talents mastering information engineering technologies. Following the principle of “combination and interpenetration of engineering and management sciences”, it has built featured professional talent training system for information technology disciplines based on in-depth industry-education integration. Currently, it is the leader of the construction of new business studies (business economics, business management, and business information). The college offers six undergraduate specialties, i.e., E-Business, Information Management and System, Computer Science and Technology, Internet of Things Engineering, Big Data Management and Application, and Logistics Management. It also offers a master’s degree program in Engineering Management (MEM). The college currently has more than 1,500 students enrolled. It consists of 72 full-time and part-time staff members, including 59 full-time teachers. The college has successfully received approval for two Ministry of Education “Industry-Education Integration” projects, one national “New Engineering” project, two national “Double First-Class” top undergraduate programs, two first-class undergraduate programs in Shanghai, and the establishment of the Modern Business Information Industry College, Smart Logistics Industry College, and a municipal-level demonstration experimental center.
The college is guided by Xi Jinping’s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and takes “digital intersection and digital empowerment” as the main line of its development. It integrates the innovative achievements of artificial intelligence and information technology deeply into the business and trade circulation industry, enhancing the sector’s innovation capacity and productivity. Supported by emerging technologies such as mobile internet, cloud computing, big data analysis, and large models, the college optimizes its discipline and program structure and promotes interdisciplinary integration. Leveraging the Digital Business and FinTech Research Institute of Shanghai Business School, the college is developing disciplinary directions in “Platform Economy and Management” and “Business Big Data Engineering.” The college is committed to cultivating compound talents in the digital economy with digital skills, practical abilities, and an innovative spirit. Its employment rate has ranked among the top in the university for many years, forming a first-class talent education model focused on cultivating application-oriented and innovative talents.
Over the past three years, the student work of the faculty has been fruitful: Our students have won more than 300 awards in all kinds of discipline competitions, including more than 100 municipal or higher-level grand and first prizes. The faculty has been elected as an advanced collective for employment multiple times by the school. Besides a graduate employment rate of above 98%, the faculty also ranks the first place in the school in terms of graduate salary level. More than 70 graduates of the faculty have been admitted into renowned institutions of higher learning for postgraduate study, including Xi 'an Jiaotong University, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai University, University of Southern California, New York University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and University of Nottingham.
Excellent talent education
The faculty has created a brand-new industry-education integration mechanism for the undergraduate phase, striving to cultivate talents urgently needed by Made in China 2025 and 5-10 years future major industries at local level. Students have the opportunity to take internships at large-sized enterprises for one year, with payment and credits.
Teaching staff
An innovative teaching staff has been developed by inviting senior engineers from enterprises and encouraging them to collaborate with faculty teachers. By cooperating with enterprises in developing and teaching specialty core courses, we can ensure the excellent academic level, outstanding teaching quality, and rich industrial practice experience of our teaching staff, thus realizing talent cultivation through multi-party cooperation. The faculty also has an outstanding teaching team in charge of school-enterprise integration, mainly composed of young and middle-aged teachers. The college currently has 72 staff members, including 59 full-time faculty members (of whom 25 hold senior professional titles, accounting for 42%; 47 have doctoral degrees, making up 80%; 32 are dual-profession teachers, accounting for 54%; 1 is an expert on the National Teaching Steering Committee; 4 are experts on the Shanghai Municipal Professional Teaching Steering Committee; 1 has received the Baosteel Excellent Teacher Award; 1 is a Shanghai Municipal Teaching Master; and 3 have received the Shanghai Talent Development Award). Additionally, the college has 66 part-time senior industry experts and corporate mentors.
Practice bases
Relying on the bases built by the Ministry of Education, the faculty has carefully studied the practical engineering application cases of “Internet +”, aiming to cultivate students’ practical working capabilities in an all-round manner. The faculty has built an industry-university cooperation alliance with more than 30 enterprises and public institutions for the development of on-campus and off-campus practice bases, including ZTE Corporation, Apple Shanghai Co., Ltd., Shuguang Group, Oracle Software System (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., The Third Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security, Shanghai Baozun E-commerce Limited, and Newland Science & Technology Croup Co., Ltd.
Quality development
Vocational quality cultivation courses are taught throughout the undergraduate phase to fully cultivate students’ comprehensive quality. Corporate mentors are invited to guide, teach, and cultivate quasi-professionals hand by hand. The Co-Operative Education (CO-OP) program is introduced to provide targeted vocational quality education for students through linkage with enterprises in the industry. Over the past three years, our students have made repeated successes in all kinds of competitions and contests, including the China University Student Computer Design Competition, the Embedded System Design Contest, the Internet of Things Design Competition, the “Challenge Cup” National College Student Competition, the Mathematical Contest in Modeling, the “Innovation Cup” Management Contest, the National Competition on E-Commerce Innovation, Originality and Entrepreneurship for College Students, and the “Internet +” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. The graduates are highly welcomed and praised by employers, including Internet enterprises, e-commerce enterprises, IT enterprises, banks, public institutions, and government agencies.
E-Commerce (Undergraduate, Availability of Language for Instruction:Chinese)
Training goals
This major aims to cultivate first-class application-oriented “new business” talents with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor, international vision, solid theoretical foundation of economic management and e-commerce, skilled application of digital technology, new retail management, mobile Internet and big data analysis, engaged in e-commerce digital operation management, business data mining, business intelligence analysis, and meeting the needs of national strategic emerging industries.
Job orientations
The graduates are mainly engaged in e-commerce operation, technology development, digital marketing and logistics management in e-commerce enterprises, modern service enterprises, financial institutions, science and technology enterprises and management consulting organizations. They can also choose to pursue master’s degree in management science and engineering, business administration and other majors.
Specialty features
This major was approved as a national “Double First-class Specialty Plan” undergraduate major in 2019, and passed ACBSP international certification. In 2018, this major was selected as the first-class undergraduate leading program major in Shanghai. It is the pilot major of outstanding business education in the school and the “Hundred Universities Project” of the Ministry of Education of China, that is, the innovation base of integration of production and education and the national “Emerging Engineering Education” construction base. We will actively carry out in-depth school-enterprise cooperation and international cooperation in running schools, put innovation and entrepreneurship quality education throughout the talent training process, and build a talent training mode of “integration of production and education & integration of academic diplomas and vocational certificates”.
In the face of the digital age, we have created a teaching system based on digital operation of e-commerce, with business data analysis and mobile business application development as the professional training direction closely following the needs of the society, forming a new business characteristic based on big data.
Basic Professional Courses
Introduction to E-Business Introduction to Mobile Business
Introduction to Cross-Border E-Business E-Business Visual Operations
E-Business Traffic Operations E-Business Customer Operations
Business Data Analysis Statistics
Multivariate Statistical Analysis Marketing
Data Visualization Big Data Processing
Planning and Design of Mobile Application Machine Learning
Contact information
College of International Education, Shanghai Business School
Office Hours: 8:30-16:00, Monday to Friday, excluding national legal holidays.
Address:
Fengpu Campus: Room 810, No.6333, Oriental Beauty Valley Avenue, Fengxian District, Shanghai 201400, China
Xuhui Campus: Room 1303, No. 2271, West Zhongshan Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 200235, China
Tel: (0086-21) 64161789
Email: iecsbs@126.com
