Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE) began as a business program at the Nanjing Higher Normal School in 1917. Yang Xingfo, a well-known social activist and patriotic democrat, was appointed as program director. In 1932, the university split and became known as the National Shanghai College of Commerce, the only national undergraduate business school in China at the time. In 1985, it was renamed as Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. In 2017, SUFE has entered the national "double First-class" construction sequence, opening a new chapter to strive for the goal of Chinese characteristics, the world first-class university.

After generations of hard work and unremitting efforts, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics has become a multi-disciplinary key university that focuses on finance and economics and maintains coordinated development in economics, management, law, arts and science. The university makes every effort to progress and cultivate tens of thousands of talents in financial management and related professions for the economic and social development of China. Shanghai University of Finance and Economics is striving to become an internationally renowned research university specializing in finance and economics.

The School of Finance

In 1998, in order to meet the needs of China's financial development and further promote the development of financial discipline, The School of Finance was established in Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE), which is also the first school of finance among universities in mainland China. The School of Finance consists of five departments, namely, The Department of Banking, the Department of Insurance, the Department of International Finance, the Department of Securities and Futures and the Department of Corporate Finance. The school has four undergraduate programs, four academic master's programs, two professional master's programs and four doctoral programs. With its excellent infrastructure, senior faculty, modern management and international vision, the college has created a group of academic and practical talents active in the financial sector. Financial institute is committed to building a team with international vision and high scientific research level of first-class teaching staff, to foster critical thinking ability, creativity, and looking forward to force the internationalization of the high quality financial professionals, committed to in the short-to-medium term, make the institute become Asia's first-class, has a certain international influence of the teaching and scientific research base.

The department of Insurance

The department of Insurance was founded in 1946 by Shanghai National College of Commerce, which is the first department of Insurance in China. In 1985, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE) resumed the insurance program, becoming the only university in East China with undergraduate and master programs in insurance. In 1994, the Department of Insurance took the lead in recruiting actuarial undergraduate students in East China, and began to recruit actuarial master students in 1998.The Department of Insurance has two undergraduate programs: insurance and actuarial science, two master programs: Risk Management and Insurance, actuarial Science and Accounting, and three doctoral programs: insurance, Risk Management and Actuarial Science. The insurance department aims to cultivate high-quality interdisciplinary talents with a solid foundation of insurance theory, professional skills in insurance and actuarial calculation, and innovative consciousness and practical ability.

Institute of Finance and Insurance

The Institute of Finance and Insurance of SUFE was founded in 1998 with professor Yu Ziyou as its first director. In 2010, Professor Su Fang was appointed as the director. Based on the original intention of industry-university-research cooperation, the institute organizes research forces inside and outside the university to focus on the risk and risk management of the financial and insurance industry and carry out various academic researches to solve practical problems in the industry. The Institute strives to provide academic research opportunities for the financial and insurance sectors and provides project funding to participants; provide a platform for the industry to exchange training opportunities for the industry; disseminate the latest information and provide practical and academic research information to the industry; participate in industry research and regulatory research, provide academic research support for various companies and regulatory departments.