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College of International
Business and Management
The College of International Business and
Management Shanghai University founded in May 1999, which is a
merger of former International Business College, Business
Management College and two departments of Literature College. The
merged college has moved into Jiading Campus since August of that
year.
The college involves seven departments and two
institutes, which offers an integrated curriculum. The seven
departments are: Economics, Finance, Business Administration,
Management Science & Engineering, Accounting, Information
Management, and Public Management. The two institutes are:
Forecasting & Consulting Institute of Shanghai University,
and Contemporary Business Institute.
The college sets up 10 specialties offering
bachelor degree that belong to 4 first level subjects
respectively, which are Economics, Business Administration,
Management Science & Engineering, and Public Management. The
specialties are: Economics, Finance, International Economics
& Trade, Cameralistics, Business Administration, Accounting,
Engineering Management, Information Management & Information
System, Tourism Management, and Administrative Management. The
Economics and Cameralistics specialties did not recruit students
for the time being because of the demand from personnel market.
There are 6 master degrees offered in the college: Finance,
International Trade, Industrial Economics, Accounting, Management
Science & Engineering, and Informatics. The college
establishes an information center, its function is connecting
with Shanghai University Web, maintaining work-nets in the
college, facilitating information construction for curriculum in
each department, managing electronic commercial lab, as well as
graduates' computer room and literature reading room.
There is 230 staff members in the college, among
them 180 are teachers who are about 25 professors, 70 associate
professors and 85 lectures.
College of International Business and Management
is the largest in Shanghai University because of its largest
students' scale with undergraduates 4056, graduates 230, overseas
45 (including bachelor, master, and refresher students) and adult
students 1930. Enrollment in plan for 2002 is 1000 students
pursuing bachelor degree, 140 students pursuing master degree,
and 600 adult students. More than 10,000 students graduated
already, and they are mainly working in Shanghai service
industries (such as banks, securities, insurance, foreign trades,
business, accounting firms, consulting and forwarding agents) and
foreign investment or joint venture enterprises in manufacturing
industries, except about 15% of them going abroad. The students
stand high in evaluation from their employers, since they have
good skills on foreign language, computer application and special
field knowledge.
While the college puts focus on bachelor education
as teaching is the main task in a university, it shows great
concern on scientific research. Since 1999, the teachers in the
college have fulfilled a lot of research items, and 4 of them won
national funds either for natural science or for social science.
There were 1 item on humanities of social science from national
education bureau, 67 items for Shanghai municipality (such as
research on philosophy, and those for the Science and Technology
Commission, for Development and Research Center, for Education
Commission and so on). Total outlay on research amounts more than
4,000,000 RMB. Besides more than 100 writings or textbooks
published, nearly 500 academic theses have been published on
national key journals or authentic periodicals. Among all these
works, 7 items have separately won special prizes from Shanghai
municipality.
The academic subject "Industrial
Economics" of the college was listed in the key academic
subjects by Shanghai government in June of 1996. It has been
recognized after experts' inspection organized by the education
commission of municipality in July of 2000. The academic subject
"Contemporary Business & Engineering Management" of
the college was one of projects of "211 China Higher
Education Engineering program".
The college has taken an active part in
international and regional exchange and co-operation, so it has
established various relations with universities in USA, Canada,
Australia, France, Finland, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong
Kong. The programs involve exchanging teachers and students,
co-operative researching, holding seminars together, and so on.
The college invites 5 foreign experts or teachers all year long
to teach junior students (third year) "Oral Business
English". The international and regional cooperation has put
a positive and favorable effect on cultivating talented students,
training qualified teachers, pushing education reform, and
improving scientific researches.
Dr. Chen Xian, professor, is the executive dean of
College of International Business and Management Shanghai
University. He graduated from People's University of China with
his doctor degree of economics in 1995 and master degree in 1988.
In his long time teaching experience he has been the deputy
director of the Economics Department in Jiangxi University,
director of Commercial Economics Department and director of
International Business Department of Shanghai University. He has
taken the position of the executive dean of the college since
July of 2001. His specialty is in the fields of Macroeconomics
and International Service Trade.
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