Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (also known as SWUFE) is a national key university under direct administration of the Ministry of Education and is listed in both “Project 211” and “985 Innovative Platforms for Key Disciplines Project ”of the Chinese government as part of the national endeavor to build world-class universities in the 21st century. It is also selected as one of the trial spots for nation-wide educational reform. Located in the city of Chengdu, SWUFE now has two campuses, the Guanghua Campus and the Liulin Campus. With an overall area of about 380 acres (or 2300 Chinese Mu), SWUFE is also known for its picturesque campus scenery.
List of Achievements Recognizing Excellence in Teaching:
4 key disciplines registered at the national level
Offers Doctoral Degree programs in five primary disciplines
Offers Master Degree programs in eleven primary disciplines
“National 985 Innovative Platforms for Key Disciplines Project ”—Innovation of the development of financial discipline galaxy and China’s financial development
Coordinated Innovation Center for the Financial Development and Security in China
5 education and research bases of national -level
4 integrated disciplinary areas
4 pilot projects of the natiional educaiton system reform
"985 Innovative Platforms for Key Disciplines Project"
Undergraduate Education
The university has followed three reform philosophies: implementing reforms on liberal education, value quality teaching, promoting an integrated approach to train innovative talent, carrying out the teaching reform as well as changing the class teaching mode thoroughly and training a galaxy of financial talent. SWUFE carries out the programs of international innovative talent and Guanghua innovative talent, endeavoring to cultivate an enabling environment. Thus SWUFE will continuously improve the quality of talent. The university is awarded for 66 national-level and provincial-level teaching achievements. Moreover,55 courses have been listed as the national-level and provincial-level excellent courses.
At present, the university has 27schools with 32 undergraduate majors (including centers and divisions) that attract high-quality and enthusiastic students from all parts of China. At present, SWUFE has over16,000 registered full-time undergraduate students.
Graduation Education
SWUFE is one of the earliest universities to offer graduate programs following the education reform of the 1970’s. There are over 7,000 graduate students including over 5993 Master’s degree candidates and 1103 Doctoral degree candidates. In recent years the university has been vigorously engaging in the reform of the categorization of talent training to meet the demand of the society. The university launched the “Doctoral Degree Candidates Innovative Education Program” to explore alternative modes of graduate education and promote innovation of joint training of students in partnership with overseas educational institutions. The overall quality of academic degrees and graduate education has witnessed all-around improvement in recent years, which makes this university a significant training base for graduate students of economics and management.
Foreign Student Education
SWUFE started to enroll overseas students in 1996 and was listed as a key university for overseas student education by the Ministry of Education in 2001. At present the university offers 38 Doctoral degree programs, 67 Master’s degree programs and 32 Bachelor’s degree programs to overseas students. The university also has four Bachelor’s degree programs and two Master’s degree programs delivered completely in English and these programs have trained several thousand foreign students from over 100 countries.