Why us
About us
Shanghai Business School is higher learning institution providing undergraduate programs directly under Shanghai Municipal Government. As a Model Unit, the School, which was formerly known as East China Branch of Tax Administration School of the Central Government, has undergone the development for 58 years.
Sticking to the polices of keeping pace with the times and bringing forth new ideas, Shanghai Business School has turned out tens of thousands of qualified C.P.C. leaders and economic administrators as well as a large number of college graduates during the last five decades and many of them have become bureau directors, department heads, or directors of large or medium-sized enterprises. Some of them have even turned out to be distinguished business executives both at home and abroad.
At present, Shanghai Business School has more than 400 full-time teachers, of which 37.9% boast Master Degrees or Ph D degrees and 34.7% have the professional titles above associate professor, including 40 full professors and researchers. In addition, the School has a team of over 100 visiting professors consisting of senior executives like chairmen of the boards and chief executives of nationally or internationally known enterprise groups.
Now Shanghai Business School has more than ten thousand full-time students in its 12 secondary level faculties. The School offers eighteen undergraduate programs, forty-five advanced vocational programs and seven Sino-foreign cooperation programs, of which two are national-level specialties and one is municipality-level specialty for experimental educational reform. The education model of integrating production, learning and research, which is reaffirmed by the leaders of the Ministry of Education, has been transplanted into universities and colleges in many other places in China and born fruits there. Excellent teaching resources, correct orientation of school running as well as continuous deepening of teaching reformation have improved not only teaching qualities but also students’ qualities. In recent years, the students in Shanghai Business School have gained fruitful results by successively winning the first prize in national mathematic module building competitions as well as those were held in Shanghai. Since 2000, the employment rate of the graduates has remained above over 95%, ranking in the forefront among the universities and colleges in Shanghai.
Since reform and opening up, Shanghai Business School has established influential research institutes and training organizations, including Shanghai Chain Operation Management Research Institute, Shanghai E-Business Education Institute, Modern Development Research Institute, Japan Business Research Institute, Japan Studies Research Institute, Shanghai Professional Skill Appraisal Institute, National Center for Training Teachers of Junior Colleges or Vocational Colleges and Shanghai Service Center of Human Resources Development and Service. What’s more, the School has completed a series of comprehensive, perspective and highly academic researches, which will play vital roles in the economic and social development of Shanghai as well as the whole country by providing scientific basis for the critical reforms in the economic field. The School publishes regularly its own academic journal ---Journal of Shanghai Business School, which is a core journal of commerce and trade. Besides, it also participates in the publishing and editing of other core Chinese journals like East China Economic Management.