The beautiful campus view in light

SWUFE (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics) is one of the premier universities of finance and economics in China. It is one of the top 100 universities in the nation's 211 Project, a national initiative to build 100 first-class universities in the 21st century.

The University was created as Sichuan Institute of Finance and Economics in 1952, when the colleges and departments of business and economics from 17 universities were restructured. In 1980, People's Bank of China (PBC), China's central bank took over the governance of the University and renamed it SWUFE in 1985. PBC governed the University till February 2000, when the governance was transferred to the Ministry of Education. The University boasts a strong faculty of scholarly excellence and professional dedication. Added to this is the classic campus setting, situated in Chengdu, a beautiful city of fine culture and long history plus being in the vicinity of Du Fu Thatched Cottage, residence of a prominent poet in Tang Dynasty.

Bird's eye view of SWUFE

More than half century of development, especially the intensified efforts since 1995 within the 211 Project frameworks, has greatly enhanced the University's administrative and academic resources. We offer 35 doctoral, 62 master and 31 bachelor's degree programs in and among 26 University's departments and schools. These programs are distributed over the areas of business, industry, economics, liberal arts, and law that feature a coordinated pattern with financial programs as core and economics and management programs as mainstream. The University has 3 mobile post-doctoral stations including theoretical economics, applied economics and business administration; 4 key disciplines registered at the ministerial level, i.e., financial studies, political economics, accounting and statistics; and 12 key disciplines at the provincial level. In addition, the University is home to 3 teaching/research centers ratified by the Ministry of Education, i.e., National Center for Economics Teaching, National Center for Liberal Arts and Humanities Education of University Students, and SWUFE China Finance Research Center. The University is the first institution authorized to train MBA and CPA in southwestern China. SWUFE sponsors over 30 interdisciplinary and specialized research and teaching centers and enters into partnership with foreign education and business organizations, among them the Center for PBC Simulated Banking Labs, Center for Business Foreign Languages Training (BFT) and China Actuary Training Center.

Members of teaching/research, library, administration, and supportive faculties number more than 1400, among who 160 professors, over 270 associate professors, and near 100 doctor supervisors. The University is proud to have Liu Shibai, Zeng Kanglin, He Zerong, Zhao Guoliang, Jiang Mingxin and many other nation-wide renowned economists and management experts in its faculty. Moreover, more than 400 prominent economists, bankers, and senior corporate executives are invited to serve as professors emeritus.

The University is an important knowledge contributor to China's financial industry and western region economic research with its some 18 research institutes, including China Finance Research Center and West China Economic Research Center. Since reform and opening up, it has produced over 18,000 research findings, successfully completed over 400 national/ provincial research projects, and received over 300 awards for research results at national and provincial (ministerial) levels. The Research Division was awarded by the Ministry of Education Leading National Research Administration of Higher Learning Institutions. The University Press has won the honor of Excellent Press by State Press and Publications Administration and Excellent Press of Higher Learning Institutions by Ministry of Education for three times in six consecutive years. The University's journal the Economist is the excellent national social sciences journal, and Science of Finance and Economics is awarded the First Top 100 National Social Science journals.

	The Square On the Campus

The University has modern teaching-and-research facilities, quality athletic and logistic service hardware enhanced with easy Wi-Fi and other kinds of connections. The University's libraries have over two million volumes. Covering an area of 378 acres, SWUFE maintains two beautiful campuses full of lawns, trees and gardens. It has been listed as a fine model of forestation and Garden-Style Campus by the government.

In order to better meet the requirements of global and domestic economic development in the 21st century, SWUFE is ready to take the opportunities and face the challenges, to inherit and enhance the existing characteristics and good culture of the university, and to endeavor to build SWUFE into one of the best domestic universities with world reputation in the middle of this century when the university celebrates its 100th anniversary.