Ⅰ. Introduction of SBS

Shanghai Business School (SBS), formerly known as the East China  Branch of the Tax Administration School of the Central Government  (founded in 1950), is a public application-oriented undergraduate  institution of higher education with a distinctive focus on business  studies. The school fully implements the national educational policy and  remains true to the original aspiration of cultivating talents for the  party and the country. The school has adhered to a “business-rooted and  application-centered” education philosophy, and upheld the school motto  of “strive for virtue and erudition, devote to economic prosperity and  social responsibility”. The school is devoted to developing “applied,  innovative, and international” school-running features, cultivating  high-quality application-oriented business talents with professional  attainment, practical ability, innovative spirit, international view,  and a strong sense of social responsibility, and building a high-level  application-oriented business school. In October 2021, with the approval  of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, the school was  approved as a master's degree-granting unit, achieving a major  breakthrough in school-running level.

Currently the school has three campuses (Fengpu Campus, Xuhui Campus,  and Guoquan Road Campus) and one school point at Fuzhou Road, and boasts  nearly 8,000 full-time students. Currently, the school has a total of  787 teaching and administrative staff members, including one expert  enjoying special government subsidy from the State Council, two teachers  elected as members of the Ministry of Education's Steering Committee on  Higher Educational Institutions, one “Leading Talent in Shanghai”, and  ten winners of the Shanghai Municipal-level Outstanding Teacher Award  and the Baosteel Outstanding Teacher Award. In the past five years, SBS  has also won a total of 8 first and second prizes of the municipal  teaching achievement award, and offered over 60 municipal-level key,  top-quality, and model courses. It has offered 30 regular undergraduate  specialties for 2021. To be specific, its business administration,  hospitality management, e-commerce, international economics and trade,  logistics management are national-level first-class undergraduate  specialties; its finance, computer science and technology, marketing,  business economics, food quality and safety, information management and  information system, accounting, and tourism management are Shanghai  municipal-level first-class undergraduate specialties; its taxation and  eight other specialties are application-oriented undergraduate  experimental specialties in institutions of higher learning under  Shanghai municipality; its business administration, hospitality  management, e-commerce, and marketing have passed ACBSP international  certification, realizing the full coverage of new liberal arts,  engineering and agricultural projects of the Ministry of Education. For  the past five years, the students of SBS have won more than 1,100  national awards in the National Selection Competition for the  WorldSkills Competition, the “Challenge Cup”, and many other  disciplinary (specialty) competitions. Moreover, SBS has a stable  graduate employment rate of above 96%.

By continuously deepening the connotations of discipline construction,  the school aims to accelerate disciplinary special zone construction  and create a business discipline system based on applied economics and  business administration and characterized by interdisciplinary  coordinated development. Its applied economics is a class-II plateau  discipline at Shanghai municipal level; and its business administration  has been included under Shanghai Higher Education Institutions  First-Class Discipline (Class B) Construction Program. So far, the  school has two master's degree authorization points in tourism  management and international business. Over the past five years, the  school has undertaken more than 70 scientific research projects at or  above the provincial or ministerial level (subsidized by the National  Social Science Foundation of China, the National Natural Science  Foundation of China, the Ministry of Education Humanities and Social  Science Fund, and so forth), and won 10 provincial or ministerial-level  scientific research awards, including Shanghai Municipality Research  Achievements Award for Decision-making Consultation.

Focusing on national and local strategic demands and major industrial  demands, the school has deepened its comprehensive strategic cooperation  with Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, and launched a series  of commercial (business) application research and consultation services.  It has also developed multiple municipal-level scientific research  bases and platforms, such as Shanghai Institute of Commercial  Development, University Think Tank of Shanghai, Shanghai Social Science  Innovative Research Base, Key Research Institute of Humanities and  Social Sciences at Universities of Shanghai, and University Knowledge  Service Platform of Shanghai. It has also received replies from  provincial and ministerial leaders concerning over 70 research  achievements for business decision-making consultation in the past five  years. The MOFCOM Training Base for International Business Officials  (Shanghai), established by the Ministry of Commerce at SBS, has offered  training to a cumulative total of 5,700 business officials from more  than 100 countries (regions) worldwide.

Clinging to the principle of open schooling, the school never ceases  to enhance its international reputation and influence. For the purpose  of introducing high-quality business education resources, it has jointly  set up the College of Shanghai Lausanne Hospitality Management  (officially approved by the Ministry of Education in May 2021) with EHL,  making a substantial breakthrough in Sino-foreign cooperative school  running. It has successively launched cooperation and exchanges with  nearly 90 research institutions and institutions of higher learning in  the US, the UK, Australia, and many other countries and regions,  initiated the founding of the “Belt and Road” International Business  Education Alliance, led the formation of the International Alliance of  High-end Business Think Tanks, and established its Overseas Education  Base in Central and Eastern Europe.

The school lays emphasis on the inheritance of traditional commercial  culture and the cultivation of the core socialist values. It has built  Chinese Commercial Culture Exhibition Hall and Shanghai-style Commercial  Culture Research Institute, and produced a range of business  culture-themed feature films, such as Centennial History of Commerce in  Shanghai, Centennial History of Retails, and Centennial History of  Trade. The school has also undertaken the interview and selection  activities of the Chinese Poetry Competition (Seasons II and III) in  Shanghai. In addition, the school has received many honors, including  the “Silver Prize of the 2nd Chinese Youth Volunteer Service Project  Competition” sponsored by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth  League of China, “National Defense Education Characteristic School  Elected by the Ministry of Education”, “2019 Excellent Organization  Award of Chinese Classics Recitation, Writing, and Speaking Contest  Sponsored by the Ministry of Education”, and the “1st Civilized Campus  in Shanghai”.

The school has exerted itself to create a smart campus, developed  multiple smart applications based on “banking service system” and other  service modes and mindsets, and taken the lead in logistics information  technology construction and services. The major honors it has won  include “Excellent Demonstration Unit for Logistics Information  Technology Construction at Institutions of Higher Learning Nationwide”,  “Award for Top 10 Innovative Applications in Smart City Construction of  Shanghai”, and “Bench-marking School for Education Information  Technology Applications in Shanghai”.

Standing at a new historical starting point, the school will fully  integrate into the national strategy of the new era and the construction  of "Five Centers" and "Four Brands" of Shanghai, deepen the connotation  of international cooperation in running schools, and effectively  strengthen the collaborative innovation of business education in the  “Belt and Road Initiative”, striving to turn SBS into a high-level  application-oriented business school with distinctive characteristics.

Ⅱ. Introduction of College of International Education

The College of International Education of Shanghai Business  School is a functional department responsible for the enrollment and  management of international students in China, and a teaching unit  directly managed under SBS. It mainly undertakes the teaching and  research of Chinese language and Chinese culture courses for  international students in China. The college first started to enroll  international students in 2007, and so far it has enrolled international  students from more than 70 countries and regions, including the US,  Germany, Russia, Australia, the Netherlands, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, and  South Korea. Over the past few years, the college has gradually enlarged  its scale of international students, and increasingly enriched its  teaching forms. The college actively develops all-English specialties  and courses, and energetically improves the quality of international  student training, aiming to create a richly layered international  student training system.

The MOFCOM Training Base for International Business Officials (Shanghai) (hereinafter referred to as “Shanghai Training Base”)  is one of the first batch of four training bases for international  business officials in China, and also the only training base for  international business officials in the Yangtze River Delta region. With  the merger of Shanghai Business Education & Training Center as a  whole into SBS in 2016, Shanghai Training Base was incorporated into SBS  as well.

In January 2021, the College of International Education and the  Shanghai Training Base were co-located for the convenience of handling  official affairs jointly. The purpose was to improve the quality and  efficiency of international student education through integrating the  high-quality resources of the two institutions.

The college is composed of four departments, i.e., the  Administration Office, the Logistics Department of the Base, the Project  Department of the Shanghai Training Base, and the Office of  International Student Affairs. Currently it has a total of 19 teaching  and administrative staff members, including three with a senior  professional title and 15 with a Master degree. The staff team is young  and 14 of them are below 40 years old.

The college attaches great importance to the education of  international students and the training of international business  officials. By actively serving national strategies and vigorously  developing a professional, branded, and international training base for  international business officials, the college aims to train outstanding  messengers of cultural exchanges, build a bridge of friendship between  China and foreign countries, and contribute to the building of SBS into a  high-level, application-oriented, innovative, and international  business school.

Ⅲ．Colleges Recruiting International Students

1. College of Business Administration  

The college of Business Administration has established four  departments (business administration, logistics management, marketing,  and retailing management), 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 specialties of logistics management and marketing, 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 has ranked first among all the colleges  of SBS in terms of employment rate. It achieved an employment rate of  99% in 2017–2019, and managed to maintain it above 96% during COVID-19  in 2020. 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) Business Administration (Undergraduate, Availability of Languages for Instruction: Chinese, 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 grasp the basic  theories and methods of modern economy and management; cultivate  humanistic spirit, scientific literacy, team awareness, communication  skills, and professional ethics in themselves; equip themselves with  modern organizational management knowledge and skills, especially in  terms of new retail-oriented business management, data analysis, and  human resources management; 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 business administration can find  employment with industrial and commercial enterprises, financial  enterprises, public institutions, and government agencies, and engage in  jobs related to enterprise management, data analysis, human resources,  or retailing management.

Specialty features

The specialty of business administration is a national-level  first-class undergraduate specialty (2019), a national-level  characteristic specialty (2009), a key specialty for disciplinary  connotations construction at institutions of higher learning under  Shanghai municipality during the “12th Five-year Plan” period, and one  of the first batch of application-oriented undergraduate experimental  specialties at institutions of higher learning under Shanghai  municipality during the “13th Five-year Plan” period. Besides receiving  national and municipal teaching achievement awards, it was also the  first specialty in China to pass ACBSP international certification in  December, 2019. Focusing on the field of new business and new commerce  management, the specialty endeavors to 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, and to cultivate modern business management talents  with Internet thinking, innovative and entrepreneurial abilities, and  international view in combination with the development of new business  studies, new demands, new models, and new technologies. The construction  of the specialty has closely followed the development trends of new  business studies and new retail, and actively introduced new retail  management, human resources management, and big data analysis  technologies and tools into the construction of the application-oriented  talent cultivation model, setting a leading and exemplary example for  similar specialties nationwide. The specialty has also established  multiple cooperative mechanisms with overseas prestigious colleges and  universities, aiming to introduce their high-quality innovative and  entrepreneurial course resources and improve the quality of student  cultivation.

Basic Professional Courses

Economics                                     Principle of Accounting    

Management                                   Marketing          

Human Resource Management                     Organization Behavior

Retail Operation Management                      Strategic Management  

Management Information System                   Managerial Statistics    

Management Decision and Data Analysis             Theory and Method of Business Analysis

New Retail Management

(2) 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 Chain  Operation Management major established by the Shanghai Business School  in the 1990s, 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 the core major of  first-class undergraduate construction project, the major construction  winning quite a few awards of various sorts in Shanghai and nationwide.

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

(3) 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

This marketing major is Shanghai application-oriented undergraduate  pilot major (2017), ACBSP (Association of Collegiate Business Schools  and Programs) international certification major(2019), and Shanghai  first-class undergraduate major construction site (2021). Focusing on  the field of "business and trade marketing + digital intelligence  marketing", this major is practice-oriented and it cultivates  first-class application-oriented business talents with the knowledge of  marketing theory, new media technology, big data analysis and other  disciplinary knowledge and skills, as well as internet thinking,  innovative and entrepreneurial capability and an international vision,  adapting themselves to the new demands of economic development in  Shanghai and nationwide.

This major consists of double qualified teachers both full- and  part-time. It endeavors to build up a “digital intelligent  market”curriculum group, equipped with domestic first-class AI-Saas  intelligent marketing laboratory, and together with well-known enterprises and institutions such as Hema Fresh-the new retail benchmark enterprise affiliated to Alibaba Group，Shanghai  Bailian, Japan Lawson, Linkshop, Shanghai brand authorized enterprises  association and other enterprises and institutions, it intends to jointly  explore a new model of collaborative education, Through the  establishment of corporate marketing practice center, neuromarketing and  brand innovation research studio, own brand industry research  institute, etc., it creates high-quality opportunities of internship and  employment for the students. At the same time, this major maintains  well cooperation with universities in the United States, the United  Kingdom, New Zealand, Taiwan,China and other countries and regions, and  provides students with various forms of exchange and learning  opportunities.

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

(4) Logistics 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 basic knowledge of management,  economics and information technology, know about modern theories and  methods of logistics management, be familiar with international business  practices, so they will become internationalized, interdisciplinary and  application-oriented high-quality business talents, engaged in modern  logistics organizations in site management of business logistics, design  and management of supply chain, optimization and operation management  of logistics system, promoting the communication and friendly  cooperation between China and foreign countries.

Job orientations

The graduates are engaged in logistics operation planning, cargo  transportation and customs declaration, logistics technology management,  logistics document management, logistics data analysis, and other  related work, in various domestic and foreign trade logistics  enterprises, e-commerce enterprises, large-sized manufacturing  enterprises, international freight forwarding companies, shipping  agencies, etc..

Specialty features

This major is supported by the industry and featured by business  logistics. After more than ten years of professional construction and on  the premise of meeting the requirements of logistics management  education, the theoretical and practical teaching system that fulfills  the professional needs has been developed. Now we have domestic  first-class experimental platforms e.g. 3D virtual reality interactive  experience laboratory, supply chain multi-organization electronic sand  table laboratory, visualized logistics laboratory, and international  logistics laboratory, etc.

In terms of experimental curriculum development, we have developed and  designed independent experimental courses e.g. logistics digital  modeling, international freight forwarding, supply chain system  simulation, etc., and we are the first in China to adopt 3D-VR virtual  reality interactive technology for logistics center design, forming an  integrated experimental training and educating system combining theory  with practice, virtuality with reality.

In terms of university-enterprise cooperation, we have established  cooperation practice base with more than 30 well-known large  enterprises, domestic and foreign, e.g. JD Logistics, SF Group, Alibaba,  Shanghai Haiyan Logistics, Sinotrans, Belle Group, and Fanet Supply  Chain, etc.

Logistics management is the first-class undergraduate major in  Shanghai (2021), and the pilot major of Shanghai application-oriented  undergraduate (2017). Through the innovative teaching mode, the in-depth  cooperation between university and enterprises, and the all-round  expansion of internationalization, we are committed to creating a new  type of logistics management major at the core of business logistics,  supported by big data analysis and cloud computing, and featured by a  new type of logistics management led by IoT.

Basic Professional Courses

Management                                       Economics

The Fundamentals of Contemporary Logistics            Operations Research

Logistics and Distribution Management                 Warehousing Management

Transportation Management                          Supply Chain Management

International Logistics                               Logistics System Analysis and Design

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”.

(1) 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 Professional Finance & Accountancy

The college of Professional & Accountancy was set up on the basis of the original college of  Finance and Economics, and offers three undergraduate specialties,  namely, financial management, accounting, and finance. Upholding the  motto of “cultivating oneself through accomplishment of virtues, and  benefiting mankind through pursuit of excellence”, the college establishes  the specialty construction feature of cultivating “internationalized”,  “application-oriented”, and “professional” business talents specialized  in finance and economics, and takes it as it mission to “serve the  national strategy of turning Shanghai into an international financial  center and train financial talents with international vision”.  Currently, the college has developed an economics &  management interdisciplinary pattern based on the three specialties of  financial management, accounting, and finance, and established a  financial research institute and a financial center research base. The  financial research institute mainly focuses on corporate finance, assets  pricing, financial econometrics, and international finance. In 2020,  the “New Finance Smart Learning Workplace” project was selected as the  first batch of college planning & construction development centers by the Ministry of Education. The specialty of finance of the college has been listed among Shanghai municipal-level first-class undergraduate specialties, and it has been identified by school as a plateau discipline to be built during the 14th Five-Year Plan period.

The college has built a strong teaching staff  characterized by “integration of Chinese and Western styles and  combination of internal and external refinement”. At present, it has a  total of 52 teaching and administrative staff members, including 4 professors, 16 associate professors, 39 doctoral  degree holders, 11 administrative teaching assistants, and more than 20  part-time teachers from domestic and foreign enterprises and  institutions of higher learning. The teachers of the college have  undertaken all kinds of projects (including projects subsidized by the  Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Science Fund, policy-making  consulting sponsored by Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, and  Shanghai municipal-level philosophy and social sciences projects), and  published more than 100 papers on many excellent magazines and newspaper  both at home and abroad. In the last five years, they have published more than 60 papers on world-renowned SSCI journals and 8 monographs, undertaken more than 40 longitudinal and latitudinal projects at municipal and college levels,  and compiled more than ten textbooks. They have also received replies  or recognition from provincial and ministerial leaders for nearly 30  special reports on policy-making consulting, including one special  report receiving replies from a member of the Standing Committee of the  Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. Moreover, the teachers have won the third prize of the first National University Teacher’s  Teaching Innovation Competition, the first prize of the first Shanghai  University Teachers' Teaching Innovation Competition (the group composed  of teachers with associate senior academic titles), the teaching  activity innovation award, the teaching academic innovation award and  the excellent grass-roots teaching organization award. The reform  project of the trials to “replace business tax with VAT”, led by  Professor Dong Huiliang, has been included among the 40 symbolic  pioneering cases of Shanghai since the reform and opening-up.

At present, the college has 1050 registered students, including 26 international students. In terms of student cultivation, the college has  basically developed a collaborative talent cultivation mode based on  the combination of “industry, teaching, research, competition, and  innovation” and characterized by “industry-teaching integration,  teaching-competition integration, and research-innovation integration”.  It has also incorporated college-enterprise cooperation,  disciplinary contests, scientific research, and innovative and  entrepreneurial projects into the objective of cultivating  “application-oriented, interdisciplinary, innovative, and  internationalized” talents, and introduced the system of “three-circle  (inner circle, central circle, and outer circle), three-all (all-staff,  all-process, and all-round) talent cultivation in ten dimensions  (classroom, scientific research, culture, practice, network, management,  service, psychology, subsidy, and organization)” into its first,  second, and third classrooms.

The college has also signed industry-university-research  base agreements with enterprises such as Wanlong International  Consulting Group Co., Ltd., Ruihua Certified Public Accounts, Changning  Sub-branch of the Bank of China, Bailian Group, and New York Institute  of Finance, and engaged in project exchanges with many world-renowned  colleges and universities to broaden students’ international view,  including the University of Northampton in the UK; Millersville  University, Long Island University, and West Virginia University in the  US; and Aarhus college of Business in Denmark. Over the past three years, more than 70 current students of the college have  taken part in short-term overseas exchange programs, and 11 teachers  have participated in overseas short-term teacher development training  programs and visiting scholar programs. The college has always ranked top among the colleges of  SBS in terms of the employment quality and job-specialty matching rate  of students. Notably, West Virginia University has signed a “2+2”  dual-degree program (finance) with SBS.

The college values the supports and assistance to  outstanding students and students with financial difficulties. With the  substantial support of enterprises who have developed college-enterprise cooperation relationships with the college, the college has set up Wanlong Scholarship, ZeJi Education Scholarship, etc. To help more students fulfill their dreams, the college has  also taken part in the program of targeted subsidies to one thousand  college students sponsored by the China Foundation for Development of  Financial Education.

In the historical background of dramatic changes unseen in a century, the college of  Finance actively upholds the motto of “cultivating oneself through  accomplishment of virtues, and benefiting mankind through pursuit of  excellence” and strictly adheres to the “business-rooted” education  philosophy, aiming to serve the national strategy of turning Shanghai  into an international financial center, promote new liberal arts  construction, enhance specialty competitiveness, and cultivate  outstanding business talents.

(1) Finance (Undergraduate, Availability of Languages for Instruction: Chinese, 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                                 

(2) 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     

(3) Accounting (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 knowledge and competence in  economics, management, law and accounting, to be engaged in accounting  practice and teaching management in for- and non-profit organizations,  promoting the communication and friendly cooperation between China and  foreign countries as internationalized, interdisciplinary and  application-oriented high-quality business talents.

Job orientations

The graduates are engaged in accounting, auditing practice, financial  management, management accounting, financial consulting service, etc. in  enterprises and institutions, commercial banks, accounting firms, and  government departments.

Specialty features

This major is a pilot major for business education excellence at  school, linking with the knowledge system of Chinese Institute of  Certified Public Accountants(CICPA), centering the professional teachers  and supported by both domestic and overseas excellent theoretical and  practical College. We cultivate accounting professional who know about  Chinese and foreign accounting and auditing standards and who features  CPA.

Basic Professional Courses

Principles of Accountancy，CPA            Econometrics

Intermediate Financial Accounting，CPA     Advanced Financial Accounting，CPA

Cost and Management Accounting，CPA     Financial Management，CPA

Auditing，CPA                          Financial Analysis，CPA

Management                             Economics

4. College of Business Economics

The Business Economics College was founded on December 25, 2015. The  College upholds the educational philosophy of "building an  application-based business school", actively meets the needs of the  construction of Shanghai's "Five Centers", and is always committed to  cultivating outstanding business talents with social responsibility,  strong practical ability, innovative and entrepreneurial spirit and  international vision.

Following the motto of "enriching the country with business knowledge  and cultivating ourselves with strict discipline", the College of  Business Economics is committed to the academic and professional  construction and development of commerce (business), based on the  industry, highlighting application, and endeavoring to cultivate  high-quality business talents with sense of social responsibility,  ability of practice, innovative spirit and international vision.

We have four majors--business economics, economic statistics,  international economics and trade, and taxation, as well as an economics  teaching and research department for all the courses on economics of  the whole school. We have nearly 1,200 undergraduate students and 62  College members, among which the proportion of professors and associate  professors reaches 38%, teachers with PhD and master degree 98%. Most of  the full-time teachers graduated from distinguished universities of  China and abroad, and many of them have experience of overseas study and  post-doctoral research. The College has a fine composition of age, with  a high level of academic qualifications, a sound academic structure,  outstanding teaching and research results, is full of strong cohesion  and combat effectiveness. Quite a few of them were selected into the  "New Century" Excellent Talents Program of the Ministry of Education,  Elsevier "2019 Highly Cited Scholars in China", Shanghai "Education  Award", Shanghai "Morning Light Scholar", "Prestigious and Moral  Standard Teacher", etc.

The College pays attention to the connotation construction of business  studies. Since its establishment, the College has one master's degree  in international business, which has been approved as a national  first-class major, a municipal first-class major, a new liberal arts  project of the Ministry of Education, a project of "Plateau" discipline  in Shanghai, a pilot project of applied undergraduate transformation in  Shanghai, and a research base of business economy and international  economic and trade rules and standards in Shanghai, and has successfully  become one of the first-class undergraduate majors in Shanghai, laying a  solid discipline and professional foundation for students to master  theoretical knowledge and cultivate humanistic spirit. At the same time,  the College insists on taking root in China to develop education and  "cultivating talents for the Party and the State", follows the lead of  National Party Building Model Branch of the Ministry of Education, Shanghai Municipal Education and Health  System Demonstration Party Branch, and relies on Shanghai "Shangshang"  (advocating business) studio of distinguished teachers to guide students  to establish correct outlooks on the world, life and values, and  promote students' all-round development of morality, intelligence,  physique, beauty and labor.

Our high-level professional theoretical research has  achieved fruitful results. In recent years, our teachers have  successively undertaken 1 national social science key project, 5 general  projects, 1 youth project, 1 national self-study youth project, 2  humanities and social science youth projects of the Ministry of  Education, and 5 Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Youth Project, 1  Shanghai Morning Light Plan, as well as over 20 projects  at the provincial and ministerial level and above. They have published  hundreds of scientific research thesis in professional core journals,  and won a number of awards at or above the provincial and ministerial  level, many monographs and compilations triggering broad and positive  effect in domestic business field.

The College has abundant applied business teaching resources.  The major of international economics and trade was approved for the  national first-class professional construction qualification, and as one  of the first batch of new liberal arts research and reform practice  projects of the Ministry of Education; the taxation major was approved  as an applied undergraduate pilot major in Shanghai municipal colleges  and universities; the business economics major was approved for the  city-level first-class course under construction; and the College was  approved for three municipal key teaching reform projects and eight  municipal key courses. The economic statistics major is one of the few  big data-related majors in Shanghai's municipal colleges and  universities. The College has a comprehensive international trade  laboratory integrating the business training such as simulating business  negotiation, international business documents and international trade  process operation, a comprehensive tax simulation training platform, and  a comprehensive business and economic training platform.

The College has a sound "government-production-learning-research"  integrated talent training mechanism. The College has maintained  long-term in-depth cooperation with many government departments,  commercial enterprises and trade associations, including local tax  bureaus/tax agent associations, well-known tax agent firms, customs  declaration/inspection departments, international trade/freight  forwarding companies, large Internet companies, and trade companies, so  that the students can get training and practice opportunities in various  business front-line departments and acquire strong professional  competitiveness and social adaptability.

We have 10 student societies, providing a good platform  for academic competition and professional quality improvement. At the  same time, we promote pragmatically the undergraduate teacher incentive  plan, and the "second classroom" has formed a new normal for daily  teaching.

In terms of international exchanges, we keep carrying out  international exchange programs with foreign universities e.g.  University of Northampton in the United Kingdom, Millersville University  in the United States, West Virginia University in the United States,  Daye University in Taiwan Province of China, and have hosted for years  the international joint student training model--the undergraduate "2+ 2"  (2 years study at home and 2 abroad), continuously strengthening the  cultivation of international business talents and remarkably widening  their international vision.

(1) International Economics and Trade (Undergraduate, Availability of Language for Instruction: Chinese)

Training goals

This major cultivates application-oriented talents on international  economics and trade, 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 morality and humanistic literacy, be able to actively take social  responsibilities, systematically know about main knowledge system of  economics, and be familiar with the basic knowledge of other  philosophical social science theories and modern information technology  theories, and have a solid grasp of the system professional theoretical  knowledge of international economics and trade and strong professional  practical ability to fulfill the requirements of social development.  With fluency of an internationally accepted foreign language, they are  capable of international trade document production, international market  environment analysis, international business communication, and  comprehensive handling of foreign trade business, information technology  application and processing and other trade services, With a sense of  innovation and entrepreneurship, a good international perspective and a  diverse knowledge system and with innovative and entrepreneurial  awareness, a better international perspective and a diversified  knowledge system, they will 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 management, trade services and other  related positions in government agencies and foreign trade companies,  international freight forwarding companies, customs or inspection  declarations, and various trade service-related enterprises and  institutions, foreign enterprises, banks, insurance companies,  securities companies, etc.

Specialty features

We have set up a universality-enterprise cooperation platform to  achieve simultaneous improvement of theoretical learning and practical  capabilities, constructing the knowledge, ability and quality structure  of students in this major in accordance with the overall cultivating  requirements of "solid basis, capable quality, wide recruitment, and  strong competence".

We innovate practical pattern of teaching and have also built up a  cross-boundary training room and comprehensive international trade  laboratory that integrates simulated training of business negotiation,  international business bill verification, international trade operation,  customs declaration, and inspection business. We also focus on  competence cultivation through various international trade professional  competitions to promote learning, teaching and research, so the students  will become talents with comprehensive qualities, solid basis, obvious  specialties, and innovative spirit.

We have introduced the international certificate, IIEI (International  Import-Export Institute) -- Certified Exporter (CE) course in  international certification system for import and export professional  qualifications.

Basic Professional Courses

Micro-economics                           Macro-economics

International Economics                      Accounting

Statistics                                  Econometrics

Finance                                   International Trade

Import and Export Trade Practice

5. College of Business Information

The faculty 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 faculty offers five  undergraduate specialties, i.e., E-Business, Information Management and  System, Computer Science and Technology, Internet of Things Engineering,  and Big Data Management and Application. At present, it owns more than 1,200 enrolled students,two offices,four departments,one branch and two centers and  72 full-time and part-time staff members. So far, the faculty has been  granted with two “Industry-education Integration” projects under the  Ministry of Education, one national “New Engineering” project, one  national “Double-Ten-Thousand Plan” first-class undergraduate specialty,  and one Shanghai municipal-level first-class undergraduate specialty.

Guided by the “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese  Characteristics for a New Era”, the faculty has implemented the  construction of the “Ministry of Education New Engineering Research and  Practice Program” relying on the “Ministry of Education–ZTE ICT  Industry-education Integration Innovation Base” and the “Ministry of  Education–Data China “Hundred-university” Industry-education Integration  Innovation Base”, aiming to develop featured talent training bases,  scientific & technological innovation bases, and application service  bases. In addition, the faculty has also conducted in-depth  school-enterprise cooperation, given full play to the advantages of  Internet +, cloud computing, and big data industry applications in data  resources and computing capabilities, built a school-enterprise joint  talent training team, and developed an excellent talent education model  aimed at cultivating application-oriented innovative talents. The  specialty of E-Business is an application-oriented undergraduate  comprehensive reform experimental specialty at Shanghai municipal level  and a Shanghai municipal-level first-class undergraduate guiding program  specialty. In 2019, the specialty was honored as a  national “Double-Ten-Thousand Plan” first-class undergraduate specialty,  and passed ACBSP international certification. In 2020, the specialty of  Computer Science and Technology was honored as a Shanghai municipal-level first-class undergraduate specialty.

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. Currently, the faculty owns 72  full-time and part-time staff members, including 11 corporate senior  engineers, six professors, 20 associate professors, and 31 teachers with  a Doctoral degree. Notably, 60% of our full-time teachers have an  intermediate or senior professional title, 96% have a Master or Doctoral  degree, and 50% have studied or engaged in further education at abroad.  Besides one expert of the National Education Steering Committee and  four experts of Shanghai Municipal Professional Education Steering  Committee, there are also one winner of the Baosteel Outstanding Teacher  Award, one winner of the Shanghai Municipal-level Outstanding Teacher  Award, and three winners of the Shanghai Yucai Award.

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.

(1) 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

Programs Recruiting International Students

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: lxsb@sbs.edu.cn