Master of Insurance (Code 025500)

Training objectives:

It aims to cultivate high-level, applied-oriented compound insurance professionals with good political qualities and professional ethics, a solid foundation in economics, risk management and insurance business, and the ability to engage in risk management, insurance products and design, insurance application management, and insurance supervision.

The major’s features:

A training model of deep integration of industry and academia. The insurance master's program implements the training model of "double guidance for teaching practice, double tutors for degree thesis, full participation of the industry, and deep integration of industry and academia". It hires a group of experts and senior managers from insurance practice departments as off-campus instructors, and pays attention to absorbing professionals from the insurance practice field to undertake professional course teaching. Connect training goals and industry talent needs, to highlight industry pertinence, broaden the professional foundation, and strengthen professional quality. Connect the curriculum system and professional capabilities, to closely contact insurance institutions, establish in-depth joint education, and strengthen the training of professional application capabilities and job adaptability.

Abundant subject resources. The School of Finance, SXUFE, where this major is located, recruits postgraduates with PhD (Master) degrees in finance and financial engineering, and it has two professional degree programs, a master of finance and a master of insurance. Finance is a key discipline in Shanxi Province, with a post-doctoral research station. Sound finance disciplines form a strong support for insurance, a discipline characterized by the intersection of multi-disciplinary knowledge, and have the advantages of cultivating senior insurance operators with the characteristics of "wide caliber, thick foundation, and strong ability".

A strong demand for talents. Shanxi University of Finance and Economics is the only insurance master's enrollment unit in Shanxi Province. The province has gathered branches of major insurance companies, which leads to a huge demand for insurance professionals. In addition, in recent years, with the international trend of financial mixing, commercial banks and securities companies have also absorbed insurance professionals on a large scale. All above make the employment prospects of the students of this major very optimistic. The School of Finance to which this major belongs has signed industry-university-research cooperation agreements with a number of insurance companies, commercial banks and other financial institutions, and established a number of practice bases, creating favorable conditions for the practical teaching of this major.

Research direction:

1.Life insurance and health insurance

2.Non-life insurance

Main courses:

Intermediate Macro and Micro Economics, Financial Theory and Policy, Risk Management and Insurance, Insurance Legal System and Supervision, Insurance Financial Analysis, Property Insurance Theory and Practice, Personal Insurance Theory and Practice, Insurance Underwriting Practice, Insurance Product Design and Marketing Practice, Reinsurance Theory and Practice, Enterprise Annuity and Employee Benefit Plan, Social Security Theory and Practice, Agricultural Insurance Topic, Insurance Actuarial Topic, Insurance Intermediary and Internet Insurance Topic, Life and Health Insurance Clause Research, etc.

Employment direction:

Insurance regulatory agencies at all levels, domestic and foreign insurance companies, disaster prevention and control agencies, social security organizations, insurance intermediaries, and domestic and foreign commercial banks, various enterprises, public institutions, and relevant government departments.