This major aims to cultivate innovative, compound and high-quality financial talents with a deep theoretical foundation, good comprehensive quality and excellent moral sentiment, with strong ideals and beliefs, excellent ideological and moral character, rich professional knowledge, strong practical skills, healthy physical and mental quality, and innovative spirit and practical ability, who systematically master the basic theories, basic skills and basic methods of modern financial engineering, possess practical ability to use modern computer and big data analysis technology to create new financial products, manage asset portfolios, measure and monitor financial risks, and be competent in financial product design, derivative product trading, financial risk management, fund management, quantitative trading strategy research and development, market microstructure research, high-frequency trading, etc.

Main courses: Political Economy, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Statistics, Accounting, Finance, Insurance, Securities Investment, Corporate Finance, Financial Engineering, Financial Econometrics, Financial Risk Management, Financial Economics, Quantitative Investment, Commercial bank operation and management, etc.

Employment and further study direction: Graduates of this major have a wide range of employment directions, mainly in three categories: all financial departments such as banks, securities, insurance, funds, and corporate finance companies, government financial institutions, corporate financial departments, etc. After graduating from an undergraduate degree, some are admitted to postgraduate studies in finance, financial engineering and related majors or go abroad for further studies. The industry with good employment over the years is the financial sector, of which the main units are: China Minsheng Bank, China CITIC Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, The People's Bank of China, Ping An Insurance Company, Shanxi Securities, Guotai Junan Securities, etc.

Financial Engineering is a National First-class Undergraduate Major Construction Point, a Characteristic Major Construction Point of Colleges and Universities in Shanxi Province, and an Advantageous Characteristic Major Construction Point of Colleges and Universities in Shanxi Province.