Discipline Code: 0202
Head of the Discipline: Prof. LEI Lianghai
Introduction
Applied Economics originated from the restoration of the School of Commerce of University of Shanghai with an excellent tradition of international education, which was famous at home and abroad in the 1930s. From 1994 to the beginning of this century, the department of Applied Economics cooperated with the Business School of Syracuse University in the United States to carry out the training of applied economics graduate students, and trained more than 300 high-level economic management talents for China. In 1996, its department was granted the right to confer master's degree in economics (national economics.) Since then, its department has been successively granted the right to confer master's degrees in second-level disciplines such as Public Finance, International Economics and Trade, Regional Economics, Industrial Economics, Finance, and Statistics. In 2006, the department was granted the right to confer a first-level master's degree in Applied Economics. At present, the enrollment major covers nine second-level disciplines including National Economics, Public Finance, Finance, International economics and Trade, Regional Economics, Industrial Economics, Labor Economics, Quantitative Economics, and Statistics. There are more than 400 graduate students in the department currently. In 2008, it was approved as the key discipline by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and ranked 45th in China in the third round of China Discipline Evaluation. The department established the China Peripheral Economic Research Center (National and Regional Research Center approved by the Ministry of Education,) the Institute of Finance and Finance, the Institute of Industrial Economics, the Institute of Regional Economics, the Research Center of Small and Medium-sized Banks, and the National Experimental Demonstration Center for Economic Management (one of the first batch of three National Economic Management Demonstration Center for Experimental Education approved) and other research institutions and research platforms.