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.