Master of Finance (Code: 025100)

Finance was established in 1951, undergraduates began to be enrolled in 1958, postgraduates began to be enrolled in 1995, and doctoral candidates were enrolled in 2005. In 2007, the finance was rated as one of the provincial key discipline and the national first batch of Characteristic Major Construction Point of Colleges and Universities. In 2011, it began to recruit postgraduate students with a master's degree in finance. In 2019, it was approved as a National First-class Major Construction Point. The training of master's degree students in finance implements a combination of on-campus tutor training and off-campus tutor training. There are 27 full-time tutors in the school, including 9 professors and 18 associate professors. 4/5 of the teachers have doctoral degrees. Among the teachers, there is 1 outstanding young academic leader in colleges and universities in Shanxi Province, 1 academic and technical leader in Shanxi Province, 2 talents of the "Three Jin Talents" Support Program in Shanxi Province, and 1 provincial model teacher. Off-campus tutors are recruited from various financial institutions across the country, and currently more than 50 are recruited. These off-campus tutors have high professional quality, rich professional knowledge, strong working ability and good professional ethics.

Training objectives:

The education for Finance master’s degree aims to cultivate high-level, applied financial professionals, with good political and ideological qualities and professional ethics, who can fully understand financial theory and practice, and systematically master investment and financing management skills, financial transaction technology and operation, financial product design and pricing, financial risk management and other knowledge and skills of related field , and have strong ability to solve practical financial problems.

The major’s features:

The education for Finance master’s degree relies on the key discipline of Shanxi Province—Finance, with a strong theoretical foundation, strong scientific research ability, and a teaching team and tutor team with rich practical experience. In the process of education, it absorbs the long-term accumulation of strong Shanxi financial cultural heritage, focuses on the combination of financial theory and practice and highlights the cultivation of practical ability and comprehensive quality.

Research direction:

1.Commercial bank operation and management

2.Financial engineering and risk management

3.Financial investment

Main courses:

The postgraduate courses of the master's degree in finance are practical application-oriented, taking professional requirements as the goal, and the improvement of comprehensive literacy and application knowledge and ability as the core. Mainly offer main courses such as Intermediate Macro and Micro Economics, Financial Theory and Policy, Financial Institutions and Markets, Investment, and Financial Statement Analysis; and oriented courses such as Commercial Bank Management Cases, Financial Crisis Management Cases, Asset Pricing and Risk Management, Corporate Finance; and elective courses such as Finance Marketing, Wealth Management, Corporate Reorganization by Merger and Acquisition Cases, Private Equity Investment, Financial Law, Behavioral Finance, Financial History, Financial Derivatives, Foreign Exchange Theory and Practice, Financial Risk Management Theory and Methods, Financial Enterprise Strategic Management, Professional Ethics Education.

Employment direction:

Graduates are suitable to engage in the management such as financial analysis, financial management, risk control, corporate wealth management, investment and financing business, etc. at all levels and types of banks, securities companies, trust and investment companies, insurance companies, guarantee companies, listed companies and other economic departments, and government agencies.