Object
To make full use of Shanghai's
regional advantage of being a financial center, FPIF cultivates
professional and specified personnel in finance and insurance
with inter-disciplinary knowledge and mature practical experience.
They are up to international standards and familiar with international
acceptable practice to comply with the trend of national and
international finance and insurance development.
The faculty team composes of scholars, professors in various
academic fields and business elites. FPIF hammers at building
up a professional talent base in finance and insurance industries,
and a breeding place for future entrepreneurs, and a window
and platform integrated with the world. FPIF stresses on fostering
student's practical ability through close connection between
curriculum and courses with the market requirements, and is
oriented by market demand. Keeping a close relationship with
financial and insurance companies, FPIF selects the corresponding
companies as teaching, researching and practicing bases, providing
more practice opportunities for students. Being market oriented,
FPIF recruits both degree education and certificate training
students to establish a top brand financial education nationwide.
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Leader
system and organization chart
FPIF
adopts modern enterprise management mode, that is, the President
is responsible for overall management under the Board of Directors.
There are altogether 11 directors, one from each of the participating
investing institutions. A chairman, two deputy chairmen, and
two well-known education experts are invited to serve as independent
chair directors. Mr. Wang Guoliang, the chairman of CPIC, is
the chairman of FPIF. Mr. Zhang Huiming, economics professor
and doctoral supervisor, nominated by Fudan University and
appointed by the Board of the Directors, is the first President
of FPIF.
With the establishment of party organization, FPIF undertakes
party activities in accordance with the requirement and regulation
of the Chinese Communist Party Constitution and Shanghai Higher
Education Party Committee managed by private sectors. Mr.
Feng Wenwei, professor of finance as well as doctoral supervisor,
is the secretary of the Party Committee of FPIF.
FPIF sets up Communist Youth League and Labor Union in accordance
with the Constitutions of the Communist Youth League and Labor
Union and carries on league and labor union activities.
Abiding by the guideline of being scientific, efficient and
concise, FPIF sets up four functional sections: general administration,
educational administration, school of continuing education,
and international cooperation (see chart).
FPIF sets up three committees (academic, educational, and
advisory). The academic committee gives suggestions on school
running policy, levels, standards, specialties, major academic
activities, research projects and projects selection; the
educational committee provides guidance to undergraduate education;
the advisory committee helps to strengthen the relationship
between FPIF and various social organizations.
Organization chart of FPIF
Investors' Plenary Session
Board of Directors Board of Supervisors
President's Office
Academic committee, Educational committee, Advisory committee
Administration Office Teaching Management Dept. International
Collaboration Dept. Student's Service Dept. Finance &
Accounting Dept. Logistic Management Dept. Library
Insurance Dept. Finance Dept. Financial Management Dept. Financial
Service Dept. Financial Engineering Dept. International Finance
& Trade Dept. Financial Research Center Fundamental Education
Dept. School of Network Education School of Continuing Education
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Curriculum & Recruitment
FPIF distinguishes itself for its
undergraduate education as its image brand and enlarges its
influence by international exchange/cooperation and continuing
education, which is called one body with two wings to meet
with national and international requirements for financial
talents.
FPIF, with a four-year schooling system is authorized to recruit
students of liberal arts and sciences nationwide in the second
higher education enrollment list. Full-time students are planned
to reach 7000 within four years.
Concentrating on the concept of "Broad Finance",
six departments, one section and two affiliated schools are
established under FPIF, which are Insurance Dept., Finance
Dept., Financial Management Dept., Financial Service Dept.,
Accounting Management Dept., Fundamental Education Section,
School of Network and School of Continuing Education. There
are eight specialties as follows:
1. Finance
Talents in this field are urgently needed during the formation
of an international financial center in Shanghai. With a solid
foundation of modern financial theories, the students gain
basic operation skills through practice and understand the
international operative regulations. The graduates can serve
at all kinds of finance institutes such as banks, stock exchanges,
investment companies and insurance companies in dealing with
the daily grind and corresponding business administration.
2. Insurance (including actuary)
Talents in this field are for the rapidly developing insurance
industry known as "Golden Collar" internationally.
With solid theoretical and strong business operation skills
of finance and insurance, they can play their roles in business
administration of insurance industry, product sales, product
R&D, and actuary, as well as in corresponding jobs in
banks, stock exchanges, and investment companies.
3. Accounting
Students in this field are trained to be the professional
personnel with the knowledge of management, economics, law,
and accounting, and to develop the abilities in accounting
and audit practical operation in enterprises, companies, financial
organizations, consultative agencies, and government management
departments.
4. Financial Management
This area is to foster the professional senior personnel with
the knowledge of management, economics, law and finance so
that the students can serve in enterprises, companies, financial
organizations, consultant agencies, and government management
departments, especially in money-raising, capital-running
and financial management.
5. Marketing
This area is to foster the students with wider caliber and
high creative ability on the base of solid knowledge and skills
of management, economics, law and marketing, so as to enable
them to be familiar with the regulations of international
marketing operations. The students can take jobs in marketing
planning and management, especially the practical operations
in financial marketing.
6. Information Management and Information System
This major is to foster the students with wider caliber and
high creative and practical ability with basic knowledge of
modern managements, information science technology. They learn
computer information management, and methods and applications
of information system analysis and design. They can take up
practical jobs in information management, information system
analysis, design, consultation, and evaluation.
7. Software Engineering
Students of this specialty are trained to have the ability
of creative thinking, sound knowledge of computer science
and technology, are professional in developing application
software with all kinds of software technology, and can engage
in jobs on system analysis and design, website and cartoon
design, website maintenance, application program design, software
maintenance and administration.
8. International Trade and Economics
Students of this specialty are trained to grasp the basic
theory of international business and economics, to understand
the developing state of current international business and
economics, and understand the conventional regulations and
rules in international trade. The students will gain basic
operation skills in foreign trade after practice. They will
also master solid basic skills in English (listening, speaking,
reading, writing and translation). The students can serve
in international trade, foreign companies and corresponding
international trade and related firms.
According to the plan, FPIF will also offer other new specialties
such as exhibition economics, management & administration,
actuary, and financial information.
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Teaching Staff & Educational Resources
With the strong backup by Fudan's faculty
and with the plan to recruit world class teachers at home
and abroad in its beginning, FPIF aims at building a team
of first-rated teaching staff, which is considered the focus
and crucial point of FPIF's existence and future development.
FPIF will establish its own stable team with full-time teaching
staff, constituted of professors and associated professors
as its main body. The blueprint of FPIF is to create a platform
of international education and culture-exchange in the field
of economics and finance for those talents, who dream of serving
China's higher education reform, construction of subjects
in finance and the improvement of courses change in the same
field. FPIF also hopes to provide them with the outstanding
research and working conditions as well as competitive salaries
and compensations. FPIF will explore the new system of employment
to satisfy the requirement from Fudan University, adopting
a mode of "bilateral-recruiting" between Fudan University
and FPIF for some of teaching staff. It sets the plan of "
Pacific Scholarship" and "Visiting Professor Seats"
to award or invite famous scholars and financiers as FPIF's
visiting professor or part-time teachers.
In view to broaden students' knowledge and enhance their
quality, FPIF intends to hold a series of academic lectures
and seminars supported by Fudan University's predominance
in academic subjects in various domain and its powerful team
of teaching staff.
FPIF's library is characteristic of its specialty with the
concept of "Broad Finance". It owns 150,000 books
currently. Relied on Fudan's rich educational resources, FPIF's
students can have access to Fudan's library, Campus-Wide Information
Server and its digital library. They are also allowed to participate
in Fudan University's academic reports and lecture courses
so as to get the "win-win" situation in making full
use of educational resources.
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Matriculation & Job Placement
As an independent institute invested by
Fudan University, Shanghai Pacific Insurance Company and other
corporations, FPIF's education at bachelor-degree level is
approved and administered by the Shanghai Education Committee.
Fudan University and China Pacific Insurance Company pledge
to provide our students exclusive opportunities as follows:
1. After completion of the courses in the first year, excellent
students are qualified to apply for Fudan University's transfer
examination. Those who passed the transfer examination are
allowed to enter Fudan University to continue studying the
remaining courses with Fudan University's matriculation.
2. With reference to the Government's relative regulations,
FPIF has the right for recommending its excellent graduates
to enter Fudan University and other universities to continue
their master degree courses with exam-exemption.
Due to the Market-orientated courses design and teaching
plan, plus the concentrations on fostering students' practice
capability, our students are expected to be competitive at
their graduation to enter banking, insurance and security
industries. Their future is promising.
According to the items in the Fudan-Pacific educational collaboration
contract, China Pacific Insurance Company declares that outstanding
graduates from FPIF have the priority to be employed by the
company and its branch offices.
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Continuing Education & International
Cooperation
In accordance with FPIF's planning, CPIC's
personnel training program and finance and insurance market
requirements, the School of Continuing Education (SCE), as
the affiliated school of FPIF, is oriented to train personnel
for CPIC as the starting point, and also offers training for
financial industries and related enterprises in in-service
training, vocational training, and qualification certification
training.
SCE strives to build up its image in in-service training in
finance and insurance, backed up by Shanghai's regional advantage
of being a central financial city and Fudan's advantages.
The registered trainees at present are 5,000, and the designed
scale could reach 50,000. The number of trainee-days is expected
to reach 220,000 per year in the future. SCE pursuits to enhance
its image gradually by way of developing market-share primarily
in finance and insurance, optimizing the faculty team, exploiting
frontier curriculum system, and intensifying advanced training
idea and also to provide a strong financial support to FPIF.
SCE is equipped with the most advanced management hard ware
and soft ware system in China. By cooperating with foreign
investment partners, SCE adopts the up-to-date financial theory
and its application in real case analysis. The curriculum
comprises of both imported and local resources.
SCE emphasizes the exchange and understanding of international
financial academic trends to enhance its academic standards
in teaching, research and management, strives to build up
FPIF's image, upgrades the faculty team, and fosters talents
compatible with the world market to upgrade the standard of
FPIF by cooperating with foreign universities in offering
new specialties and trainings, including MBA programs, and
other professional qualification examination trainings in
the future.
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