Ⅰ. International Economics and Trade

Master degree program of international trade is provided in this specialized field. International economics and trade is a wide comprehensive specialized subject about theories and methods on the transactions of commodities and services, as well as the movement of productive factors between countries (areas), including the basic theories, basic knowledge and practical skills. Students study the operating mechanism, characteristics, policies, development laws and related practice of modern international trade, international finance and international investment. With the increasing scales of our country’s foreign trade and investment, the development of the open economy, the improvement of integration with the world economy, the talent demand of this discipline, especially the advance talent, will be increasing in the future. Students who major in this discipline will have broad market demands and promising development prospects.

Ⅱ. Finance major

Finance is a comprehensive discipline of applied economics, serving mainly for finance and trade industry, as well as other national economic sectors. Taking the economic activities of financial currency and money funds as research object, students study in detail how the individuals, organizations and governments obtain, expend and manage funds and other monetary assets. Finance is the core of modern economy, relating directly to the overall development of economic society. With the acceleration of industrialization, urbanization, marketization and internationalization, the demand for finance will be larger and larger because of the development of economic society. The main research content includes theories and practice on financial institutions of banking, securities and insurance, financial market of money, capital and international finance, financial macro regulation and control as well as the overall financial economy and financial management, especially financial risk management, etc.

Two master degree programs including academic and professional are provided in this specialized field. With the rapid development of our national economy, there will be a strong demand for financial advanced specialized personnel in our country. Students major in the discipline will have a broad employment market.

Ⅲ. Economics major

Master program of industrial economics is provided in this specialized field.

The students major in economics will be trained to be compound talents with combination of theory and practice through studying theoretical economics, applied economics, economic history and history of economic thought, economic analyzing tool, departmental economics, as well as systematic, strict and normative training such as social survey and graduation thesis. With a solid foundation of economic theory, broad knowledge, high overall quality, as well as abilities of proficient foreign language, applying economic mathematics and practicing economic activities, the students will obtain the abilities to study further as a postgraduate in every branch discipline of economics and to work in an advanced economic and public management position.

Ⅳ. Financial Engineering

Financial engineering is an interdisciplinary including finance, informology, mathematics, statistics, physics, engineering and computer technology. Just as finance separating from economics, financial engineering is separated from finance and becomes a center of modern finance. Taking the designing and development of financial products and its derivatives as research object, financial engineering solves the financial problems creatively by applying financial risk management and studying investment strategy. No matter from the objective demand of micro main body or macro management, it is necessary for our country’s financial deepening and development to speed up training the financial engineering talent. Therefore, students major in the discipline will have broad market demands and promising development prospects.