Brief introduction

The precursor to the Business School of China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), the program of Business Administration, was established in 1995. In 2002, The Business School was formally established based on the integration of CUPL’s teaching resources from economics, management and law faculties. As an official member of the International Elite Business School Association (AACSB) and CFA , Business School offers post-doc and 5 doctoral programs on Theoretical Economics, 11 MPhil programs on Business Administration, Theoretical Economics and Applied Economics, 3 Master by coursework programs on Business Administration, Finance and International Business, and 4 undergraduate programs on Economics, Business Administration, International Business, Financial Engineering.  

Relying on the Bachelor of Business Administration established in 1995, the  Business School of China University of Political Science and Law was formally established in 2002 on the basis of integration of the university's economics, management, legal as well as legal faculty and teaching resources. As an official member of the International Elite Business School Association (AACSB) and CFA, the Business School has a mobile post-doctoral station in Theoretical Economics, the doctoral degrees to grant right in the first-level discipline of Theoretical Economics, the master's degrees to grant right in three first-level disciplines in Business Administration, Theoretical Economics as well as Applied Economics, 5 second-level doctoral programs, 11 second-level academic master's degree, 3 professional master's degrees including 5 undergraduate majors in Business Administration, Finance and International Business, Economics, Business Management, International Business, Financial Engineering as well as Information and Computing Science.

In 2017, as a pilot unit of teaching reform and innovation in CUPL, the Business School integrated the original institution system with the concept of "one major with two wings, integrated innovation, and training of compound talents for society requirements",  taking the advantage of CUPL the Business School clearly put forward the development direction of "one major with two wings", with which a major that consists of Business Management and Economics, and with "Business Management of Legal entity” and “Capital Finance" as two wings, forming the "seven department, one institute and one center” as a new discipline system: The "Seven Departments" are the Department of Business Administration, the Department of Economics, the Department of Industrial Economics, the Department of Business Management of Legal Entity, the Department of Capital Finance, the Department of Financial Accounting, the Department of International Business, of which the Department of Business Management of Legal Entity and the Department of Capital Finance are Originally created by the Business School; "One Institute" is the Institute of Corporate History; "One Center" is the MBA Education Center. The Business School also has 12 non-permanent research institutions and business management laboratory, financial investment and supervision laboratory, Business management laboratory, commercial big data and risk control laboratory, accounting laboratory and other 5 professional laboratories.

In order to achieve the strategic goal of building a world-class  business school, the Business School of CUPL took advantage and improved  the management system from world famous business schools.On May 12, 2017, 33 well-known experts, scholars and entrepreneurs were invited establishing Business School Council with "six-interdisciplinary features". The six-interdisciplinary features are cross-theory and practice, cross-political and business, cross-financial and entitiescross-state owned and private, cross-international and domestic, cross large enterprises and SMEs.The first council was chaired by Kong Dan, the Chairman of the CITIC Reform and Development Research Foundation, the Chairman of China Building Materials Group Song Zhiping and the Vice President of CUPL Shi Jianzhong served as vice Chairman.The councilf the Business School is a consulting, deliberating and supervising organization for major development issues. After the establishment of the council, the Business School implemented the dean responsibility system under the dual leadership of theCUPL and the Business School Council. This promotes the implementation of the business school's purpose of running the school, and comprehensively promotes the"one major with two wings, integrated innovation, and training of compound talents for society requirements" by strengthening school-enterprise cooperation, entrepreneurial lectures and other approaches.

There are 62 full-time teachers in the Business School including 22 full professors and 24 associate professors. Teachers with senior professional titles account for 75% of the total number of faculties; teachers with doctorate degrees account for 92% of the total number of faculties; and teachers with experience of studying abroad or training abroad account for 74%. In the past 5 years, the school has been awarded 93 national, provincial and ministerial and important horizontal topic projects. There are 2,031 full-time students in  Business School, including 1,399 undergraduates, 124 academic graduate students, and 41 PhD candidates as well as 437 MBA students.

The graduates from the Business School have knowledge structure consisting of Business Administration, business Management of Legal Entity and Financial, a solid theoretical foundation and strong practical skill, highly qualified for employment, the rate of employment was around 97% for undergraduates and 99% for graduates in past years. Almost half of undergraduate graduates are accepted or admitted to graduate schools of this university and other domestic first-rate universities as well as to the well-known universities in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and other countries. The main employer of graduates are the management departments of the government , financial institutions as well as well-known domestic and foreign enterprises.

At present, the Business School has established long-term, close personnel visiting projects, student exchanges and academic communication programs with many well-known universities and academic institutions in United States, Netherlands, Japan, and South Korea. More than 100 teachers and students were sent to study abroad with various projects every year, in addition to hire dozens of foreign experts to give long-term and short-term lectures at the school, the Business School also accepted a number of international students to study and visit the school. The business school became the official organization of the International Association of Elite Business Schools (AACSB) In 2011. On the basis of membership, the business school became a CFA association alliance university in the United States in 2018, and the international influence of the Business School has grown significantly.

The business school adheres to the school philosophy of "one major with two wings, integrated innovation, and training of compound talents for society requirements", with the mission of "cultivating business elites, academic elites, and political elites" to strives to build an inclusive business school with integration of theoretical and practical.