On February 22, 2021, the Ministry of Education issued the Circular of the General Office of the Ministry of Education on Announcing the List of Construction Points for National- and Provincial-Level First-Class Undergraduate Programs for 2020 (Jiao Gao Ting Han [2021] No. 7). Our School’s Financial Engineering discipline was on the list, becoming one of such construction sites. Finance discipline entered the list earlier.

Launched in 2002, Financial Engineering is among China’s first five financial engineering programs for undergraduate students. With a focus on the major theoretical and practical issues about China’s financial reform and opening, the discipline takes serving national strategies as its key objective, fostering character through education as its fundamental task, and risk management, big data-based finance, quantitative strategy construction, and design of innovative financial products as its characteristics. Financial Engineering aims to train excellent and interdisciplinary financial talents specialized in more than one field who have a global vision and understand the reality of China, lay a solid mathematical foundation, have a good command of modern financial theories, and are capable of innovating in practice and shoulder social responsibilities.

The School of Finance has long attached great importance to undergraduate education and teaching and persistently sought “fostering character through education” as its fundamental task. On this occasion of being designated as a first-class undergraduate program at the national level, the Financial Engineering discipline will further improve program building and planning, continuously boost the connotation and development level of the program, strengthen its characteristics, ramp up inputs, enhance talent cultivation quality, and strive to become a China-leading and world-renowned program with distinctive features as early as possible.