Zhejiang Gongshang University

Program Infomation

Program Objectives

This program is designed to bring up senior specialized statistical talents who possess good basic statistical knowledge, as well as proficient skills for data process and analysis. Student will be well trained in analyzing big data, especially for business data and management, and will become internationalized and highly-competent talents for business intelligence and business data analysis. The graduates are not only competent for basic statistical works in financial institutions and companies, but also eligible for market survey, economic information analysis, macroeconomic decision making and other economic managements. They would also be exposed to China’s politics, economy and culture so that they can participate and contribute to friendly exchanges and cooperation between China and their own country. The graduates can build their career in multiple choices, such as multinational corporation, bank, security, insurance, consulting agency, government management department and education institute.

Program Requirements

The program demands the students have a sound foundation in economics, management and finance. They will master the basic theory of statistics, statistical methods, and have a preliminary ability in statistical designing, survey project designing, data collection, data processing and quantitative analysis. They also should understand the situation and development tendency of regional and national economy and be familiar with the skills for analysing and management of business data. Finally they can make full use of information technology and marketing research methods, and will be good at collecting and utilizing business intelligence and commercial intelligence, which could service for enterprise decision.

Main Courses

Degree Courses: Outline of China, Chinese, Statistics, etc.

Compulsory Courses: Applied Regression Analysis, Business Statistics, Applied Multivariate Analysis, Financial Time Series Analysis, etc.

Elective Courses: International Economics, Corporate Finance, Marketing Survey, Nonparametric Statistics in Finance, Financial Data Mining, Management Decisions and Analysis, Advance Chinese Writing, Professional Chinese

Faculty

Our faculty with 37 qualified teachers is outstanding, including 12 professors and 24 associate professors, most of them have overseas experience. All of the teachers have Doctor’s degrees. Of all members, one teacher obtained his Ph.D. in Indiana University, and one teacher get a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University in USA. These teachers can teach in English. They not only have ample experience in teaching, but are also good at doing research to support teaching.

Length of Study: 2.5 years

Required Credits: 24 credits are required

Certificate of Graduation and Degree

Qualified students will be granted certificates of graduation and Master Degree of Economics.

Instruction Language

■  All the courses are delivered in English except some of Chinese language courses.

■ Dissertation is required to be written in English