The Investment Major can be traced back to Commercial Specialties, Jimei School, which was founded by Tan Kah Kee, the famous patriotic overseas Chinese leader, in Aug.1920.
In 1978, it began to enroll the secondary school students for the major of capital construction finance, in 1986, it started to enroll junior college students for the major of investment economical management. In the year of 2009, it began to enroll the undergraduates majoring in science of investment. The school motto of Sincerity and Perseverance has been perfectly inherited over the past 100 years. The department of investment science holds on to the educational policy of serving the social and economic development, cultivating a large number of investment management personnel. And the graduates are all over China and abroad.
Education Objective
The program is to cultivate all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor, adapting to the needs of internet, big data and artificial intelligence era; to master basic theories and methods of finance and investment; to be skilled in securities investment, equity investment, personal finance, asset management and corporate capital operations. To possess professional skills in financial risk management, portfolio management and financial data processing; to be with national sentiment, noble sentiment, international perspective and the cross-cultural communication competence; to be able to undertake investment analysis and management; to be international, innovative professionals good at capital operation and personal asset management.
Characteristics of the Majors
1.Ideological Politics + Specialty:Integrating the education of Tan Kah-kee Spirit into professional training, cultivating students ' sentiments for the motherland and shaping students ' professional ethics;
2.Micro + Macro:Strengthening international joint training, broadening their horizon, cultivating thinking for science of investment; upgrading their strategic perspective of investment;
3. Theory + Practice:Carrying out investment practice in the practice bases, holding “Simulation Fund Operation” competitions, and thus improving students’ capability of applying investment theories in investment decision-making process.
The Teaching Staff
There are 11 faculty members in the department, including 2 professors, 5 associate professors, 4 lecturers, and among them, 2 teachers with PH.D. All of the teachers have grasped digital platform teaching skills, which makes all of them competent to deal with network teaching. Their scientific research proves to be fruitful, there are 19 projects, 6 textbooks published and 3 monographs published or books edited. They have gained three funded projects for specialty construction, teaching reform and curriculum politics.
Cultivation Mode for Undergraduates
1.Optimizing curriculum system and improving practical skills. The training program for undergraduates is highlighted by the following courses: quantitative investment strategy and technologies, investment data Mining and analysis, actuarial models, tax planning, business ethics and social responsibility, securities investment practice, and so on. What has been done has been well received by the members of the Educational Instruction Committee and the experts from practice circle.
2.Construction of Investment Training Bases and Digital Finance and Investment Laboratories. The program is to fit the graduates for the demand of high-level employing units. In line with the training scheme, a Digital Finance and Investment Laboratories and training bases have been set up for funds operation simulation and the improvement of the practice skills like investment decision.
3.Textbooks of professional core curriculum is beginning to take shape. Altogether there are six professional textbooks for core curriculum have come out in state-level publishing houses: Financial Risk Management, Security Analysis and Investment, Financial Accounting, Accounting Principles and Statistics.