School of Management

Aetna school of Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) was originally named as the School of Management, SJTU. The School boasts its long history. It originates from the Management Department founded in 1918. The School of Management was officially established in 1931, when there were four departments of Railway Management, Financial Management, Industrial Management and Business Administration. By 1949,the School had consisted of four departments of Transportation Management, Financial Management, Telecommunication Management and Shipment Management.

In 1954, the School was once disbanded. The present School of Management was rebuilt on June 12th, 1984. On April 7,1996,when SJTU was celebrating its Centennial year, Aetna International Inc. (AII) and SJTU signed an agreement. AII decided to collaborate with SJTU to restructure Aetna School of Management, SJTU. On April 8, 2000, the School of Management, SJTU was formally renamed Aetna School of Management, SJTU, a School affiliated to SJTU.

The school has its consultant committee. Mr. Wang Daohan, former mayor of Shanghai Municipality, is the director.

Aetna School of Management consists of Department of Enterprise Management, Department of Enterprise Management and Decision-Making Science, Department of International Business, Department of Tourism Management, Department of Accounting and Finance, Department of Management Science and Engineering, Department of Finance, Research Institute of Human Resources Management, Continuing Education & Training Center. The School also has a SJTU & Reuters International Financial Workshop.

Presently, the School has 7 majors, including Management Science and Engineering, Enterprise Management, Technological Economics and Management, International Trade, Tourism Management, Accounting and Finance. Among them, there are 7 master programs and one MBA program, 2 Doctoral Program and 1 post-doctoral station.

From 1979 to 2000, more than 4400 students graduated from the School, including over 3300 undergraduates, over 1100 master students and over 100 Ph. D. Students.

Currently, there are more than 2600 students on campus. Among them, there are about 1500 undergraduates, about 1000 master-degree students (MBA students included ) and more than 130 doctoral students.

In addition, more than 10 post-doctoral candidates have been working at the station of Management Science and Engineering and 10 of them have accomplished their research here.

Education quality of the school comes out in front in the field of management among universities in Shanghai. For twice the School was awarded the first prize in “Comprehensive Evaluation of Education Quality of Management Disciplines among Universities is Shanghai”.

Since 1979, the School continuously held various degree or non-degree training programs for more than 70 times and accepted more than 3,000 trainees. The School organizes some of these training programs independently and the rest are co-organized with universities in such regions and countries as Hong Kong, Germany, Singapore, Canada and Japan.

Since 1979, the School of Management has completed more than 200 research projects, either independently or jointly with other universities and institutions. 21 of them are funded by the National Natural Science Foundation 45 by other ministries and departments, 52 by various provincial and municipal governments, 29 are international joint-projects, 66 are lateral projects and 18 are other projects. The projects concerned about various fields in the national economic development and social progress. So far, many prizes have been achieved including First Prize of Science Progress awarded by the National Education Committee, National Science Progress Prize and First Prize of Science progress awarded by the Shanghai Municipal Government.

Since 1979, more than 70 works and about 600 papers have been published. Among them, over 300 papers were published in the national first-grade magazines and overseas academic journals.

Early at its preparatory stage, the school has got support form the University of British Columbia, Canada and the University of Pennsylvania, USA and established a long-term cooperative relationship with them. So far, the School is very proud of its exchange and cooperation with many universities and research institutes in North America, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong. Scholastic or educational exchange has been carried out in wide range.

Currently the School has a faculty of 156 members including 20 full Professors and 57 Associate Professors.

Today Aetna School of Management is taking great efforts to fulfill its vision of being recognized as a leading school in Asia an being well known in the world.

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