Let me briefly introduce these two majors to you, taking SISU as an example:

Situation of Finance at SISU

The Finance major at SISU is affiliated to SITU School of International Finance and Trade. The School of International Finance and Trade is the oldest and largest comprehensive college at Shanghai International Studies University. It is one of the important bases for cultivating international business professionals in our school. Its predecessor was the international trade major established and incubated in the English Department in 1984. The Department of Foreign Economics and Trade was established in 1988, the School of International Economics and Trade Management was established in 1993, and the School of International Finance and Trade was established in 2006.

The School of International Finance and Trade has a stable teaching staff who love education and are willing to devote themselves to education. The college currently has 35 full-time teachers, including 7 professors, 19 associate professors and 10 lecturers. The vast majority of teachers have a doctorate or master's degree; more than 90% have overseas training and study experience, and have bilingual teaching or all-English professional teaching capabilities. The main subject leader of the college is Professor Yang Li, who is currently the Vice President of Shanghai International Studies University and a leading talent in Shanghai.

The college has good facilities and environment. The college has more than 30 self-owned classrooms, nearly one-third of which are multimedia classrooms, which fully meet the needs of multimedia teaching. The school library and college reference room contain more than 57,000 Chinese professional books and more than 29,000 English professional books. It subscribes to more than 30 kinds of professional journals, and provides mirror browsing services of Chaoxing Digital Library, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, VIP Journal Network and more than ten Chinese and foreign databases to ensure that students can obtain the latest and most comprehensive learning and research materials in a timely manner.

The college attaches great importance to the cultivation and expansion of students’ internationalization and cross-cultural communication skills, and actively carries out exchanges and cooperation with well-known foreign universities. It not only creates opportunities for outstanding students of the school to go to Europe and the United States for training and inspections, but also It also attracts students from foreign universities to come to the school for exchanges and creates a cross-cultural classroom teaching environment for the cultivation of international talents. Since 2007, the college has established long-term cooperation projects for student exchange visits with well-known foreign universities such as Carleton University in Canada and HEC Paris. At the same time, the college also plans to send students to internationally renowned universities such as Imperial College London, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore to carry out holiday study tours. Starting in 2007, the college began to receive foreign exchange students; starting in 2009, the college began to recruit international students. So far, it has received students from many countries including the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, Russia, Canada, Spain, etc. Employment prospects:

The finance major is one of the top ten popular majors for postgraduate entrance examinations in recent years. Graduates of this major have promising career prospects:

They can work in government financial institutions, Chinese and foreign banks, Investment banks, securities companies, financial research institutions, Chinese and foreign insurance companies, large state-owned enterprises, multinational enterprises, management consulting companies, accounting firms, university teachers and market research and analysis of large companies, fund managers, investment managers, securities companies, insurance companies, Trust investment company, financial analyst (CFA), chartered wealth manager (CWM), fund manager, actuary, securities broker, stock analyst, comprehensive financial investment consultant, wealth manager, futures researcher, economics book editor, Investment and financial consultants, etc.

Situation of International Trade at SISU

Shanghai International Studies University is the earliest pioneer among domestic language universities to try non-language professional teaching. The major is one of the earliest master's degree-granting units in economics among language universities in China.

After more than 10 years of hard work, this subject has established a relatively stable research direction and formed a teaching model that combines a standardized curriculum system with distinctive professional characteristics. Ideal for further study, it also provides a unique path to economic development for students with specific language expertise.

The school-running features of SISU’s master’s degree in international trade are: focusing on international exchanges between international students and students to make students truly international; improving full-course and all-round career development services; targeting those who wish to adapt to cross-border For students with cultural environment and language skills, foreign language training courses can be provided before officially starting to study for professional degree courses, so that students can improve their foreign language proficiency in a short period of time; enable all-English and bilingual teaching, and provide targeted third-level courses. The foreign language courses enable students to master a variety of foreign language skills and cultivate cross-cultural and compound business talents by fully integrating foreign languages ??and majors.

This major has strong teaching staff, reasonable knowledge structure and age structure. There are 8 professors and 9 associate professors. The academic leader of this discipline is Professor Song Shifang. The academic leaders and key teachers of each research direction are as follows: 1. International trade theory and policy direction; Professor Song Shifang, Professor Chen Chuanxing, Associate Professor Zhang Yugui, and Associate Professor Sun Jian; 2. Regional economic integration direction: Professor Cao Hongling; 3. International marketing direction : Professor Wu Youfu, Associate Professor Zeng Rong; 4. Morning exchange research direction: Professor Gong Longsheng, Associate Professor Yang Jingkuan, Associate Professor Qin Yue, Associate Professor Zhang Ailing; 5. Japanese economic direction: Professor Chen Xiaofen, Professor Xu Baomei, Professor Lu Jinghua, Professor Ji Lingen, Associate Professor Wang Ping, Associate Professor Zhang Jianhua and Associate Professor Zhang Jian.

Employment prospects:

The employment rate of international trade majors ranks among the best among all majors. Especially after China's accession to the WTO, the demand for foreign trade talents has increased rapidly. In addition to studying abroad for further studies, SISU graduates find other employment destinations including Chinese and foreign banks such as HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, and the four major state-owned banks, as well as financial institutions such as Chinese and foreign securities and futures companies.