The School of Economics of Shanghai Jiaotong University is part of the Antai College of Economics and Management of Shanghai Jiaotong University. The origin of the Antai College can be dated back to 1918 when the Railway Management Department, one of the earliest business education institutions in China, was founded. In 1984 the Ministry of Education authorized the restitution of the School of Management. In 1996 Aetna International Inc. entered into cooperation with SJTU and in 2000 the School of Management was named as the Antai School of Management (ASOM). In 2006 ASOM was renamed as Antai College of Economics and Management. The Antai College consists of the School of Economics and the School of Management. Presently, Professor Lin Zhou is the Dean of the School and Professor Fangyu Fei is the Executive Dean of the School.

The School has two departments, the Department of Economics and the Department of Finance. It runs three bachelor degree programs (economics, finance, and international economics and trade), five master degree programs (finance, western economics, industrial economics, international economics and trade, and agricultural economics and management) and three doctoral programs (finance, industrial economics, and agricultural economics).

The defining characteristic of the School’s excellence lies with its stellar faculty, which includs 22 professors and 25 associate professors. About 65% of the faculty members received doctoral degrees from various famous universities in China and abroad.

Beginning from Fall 2006, the master program has been divided into two tracks: one is career oriented and the other academically oriented. Every student may choose either track according to his/her own interest.

Moving away from the traditional model for graduate studies in most Chinese universities that separates the master program from the doctoral program, the School of Economics is developing an integrated master-doctoral program, a model that is prevalent in leading universities around the world. The program puts strong emphasis on the systematic training of doctoral candidates with comprehensive coverage of modern literature in economics and finance. Some of the core courses are taught by guest professors from top universities around the world. The contents and deliveries of most courses are completely up to the international standard.

Our goal in the next decade is to build the School of Economics into one of the leading centers of world-class economics and finance research in China.

To achieve our goal, we must undertake more research projects with national and international impacts. We encourage our faculty members to publish in leading research journals. We also need to strengthen our ties with government agencies and be more involved in important economic policy making process.

In addition, we need to make more improvements to the curricula. We must emphasize the importance of economic theory, finance, and mathematics in our various degree programs. A key focus will be the integration of economics and finance education.

To achieve our goal, we also need to intensify the effort to recruit top talents around the world. In recent years, we have successfully recruited many scholars trained in top universities in Japan, Germany and USA. Some of them have been research associates of Noble-Prize laureates; and many of them have published their research in the best international journals. Meanwhile, we also encourage our existing faculty members, especially young faculty members, to continue with their self-improvement efforts in order to produce world-class research in economics and finance.