On Oct 15th, a professional rating agency of higher education, Shanghai Ranking, published “ShanghaiRanking’s Best Chinese Subjects Ranking 2020.” In the ranking, among subjects of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Business administration and Applied Economics are ranked top 2% of Chinese subjects and the Theoretical Economics is ranked top 5%.

College of Business of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics has two major subject areas: economics and administration, and have now evolved into a leading business school national wide with three first-level disciplines of “business administration”, “applied economics” and “theoretical economics”. The school seeks growth with connotation in terms of discipline, takes business administration as the core of business studies, uses world economics, international trade and industrial economics as supports of economics and fosters cross integration and mutual improvement among subjects.

In recent years, the subjects covered by College of Business of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics are rising steadily on various influential rankings. The Economics &Business Discipline of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics entered top 1% on ESI; according to 2020 US News best global universities subject ranking, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics ranked 145th in economics and business and 6th in mainland China; according to 2016-2020 UTD business school rankings, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics ranked 120th in the world and 3rd in mainland China, with operation management ranking 102nd worldwide and 4th in mainland China and marketing ranking 123rd worldwide and 4th in mainland China. Shanghai University of Finance and Economics ranked 36th worldwide and 2nd national wide in the Tilburg University’s global economics schools research institute ranking. As to local rankings, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics ranked A in China university subject rankings (CUSR) in business administration and applied economics, among top 2% to 5% nationwide. Besides, world economy and trade major and business administration in the school are ranked as first-class undergraduate majors.

In the future, College of Business of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics will continue to grow with connotation, aim at becoming an international top tier business school, optimize the distribution of disciplines, strive to make the backbone discipline business administration a first-class discipline with international influence, and to make supporting discipline economics a first-class discipline leading nationally and devote our efforts to constructing a first-class business school internationally with a distinct finance and economics feature.