Financial Technology major aims to cultivate students with strong ideological beliefs, good moral character, rich professional knowledge, excellent practical skills, healthy physical and mental qualities, innovative spirit and practical ability, systematic mastery of the basic theories, skills and methods of modern financial engineering, and the ability to utilize modern computers and big data analysis technology to create new financial products, manage asset portfolios, and measure and monitor financial risks. Furthermore, hoping talents to be capable of financial product design, derivatives trading, financial risk management, fund management, quantitative trading strategy research and development, market microstructure research, high-frequency trading, etc.; and dig innovative and high-quality financial talents with profound theoretical foundation, good overall quality and excellent moral character.

Main courses: Political Economy, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Statistics, Accounting, Finance, Insurance, Stock Investment, Corporate Finance, Financial Engineering, Financial Econometrics, Financial Risk Management, Financial Economics, Quantitative Investment, Commercial Banking Business and Management etc.

Career Opportunities: Graduates of this major have a wide range of career opportunities, mainly in three categories: banks, securities, insurance, funds, corporate finance companies and other financial sectors; government financial institutions; corporate finance departments. After completion of undergraduate studies, graduates can go for postgraduate study in Finance, Financial Engineering and related majors, or go abroad for further study. The industry with better employment in the past years is the financial sector, of which the main institutions are: China Minsheng Bank, China CITIC Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, People's Bank of China, Ping An Insurance Company, Shanxi Securities, and Guotai Junan Securities etc.

Financial Engineering is construction points of national first-class undergraduate majors, national higher education featured specialty construction point, and advantageous featured disciplines construction point in higher education of Shanxi Province.