The School of Finance consists of five departments: Banking Department, Insurance Department, International Finance Department, Securities and Futures Department and Corporate Finance Department, all of which have the right to award bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. After years of construction and development, this discipline has gradually formed the research direction of finance, insurance, financial engineering and credit management. In 2008, finance was approved as a national key discipline in the second national key discipline evaluation. The banking department, formerly known as the Banking Department of National Shanghai University of Commerce, was established in 192 1. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), it was renamed the Ministry of Money and Banking. In August, 1998, the name of the banking department was restored. The banking department has undergraduate and master programs in monetary banking and credit management, and recruits doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers. Yang, Zhu Sihuang, Peng Xinwei, Ao, Gong Haocheng and other well-known scholars in domestic education and academic circles have emerged successively. At present, there are in-service teachers 1 1 person, including 4 professors and 4 associate professors. In addition, there are a number of well-known part-time professors at home and abroad. The current dean is Mr. Ye Weichun. For more than ten years, the department has undertaken a number of national key scientific research projects, scientific research projects of the State Education Commission and scientific research projects of Shanghai and the Ministry of Finance. Among them, the major of money and banking is a key discipline in Shanghai, and the course of money and banking was selected as the first batch of national excellent courses by the Ministry of Education in 2003.

The Department of Banking aims to cultivate professionals in banking and credit management with solid economic theoretical foundation, rich professional knowledge, pioneering spirit and realistic and innovative style, and practical work and research and teaching ability in banking management, credit management and international finance. The predecessor of the insurance department was 1946, the first insurance department in China. 65438-0985, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics resumed its major in insurance, which was the only institution in East China with undergraduate and master's majors in insurance at that time. The Department of Insurance took the lead in enrolling actuarial undergraduates from 65438 to 0994 in East China, and began enrolling actuarial postgraduates from 65438 to 0998. Teachers 1 1 person, including 2 professors and 4 associate professors. The current dean is Mr. Zhong Ming.

The insurance department has two undergraduate majors: insurance and actuarial science, two master majors: risk management and insurance, actuarial science and accounting and three doctoral majors: insurance, risk management and actuarial science. With the support of foreign insurance companies, Chubo Insurance Training Center, Eagle Star Insurance Actuarial Information Center, Zurich Insurance Actuarial Information Center, Swiss Reinsurance Actuarial Information Center, Hengkang Insurance Reference Room, Shangcai and Samsung Fire Insurance Exchange Center have been established successively.

The insurance department aims to cultivate high-quality compound talents with solid insurance theory, actuarial skills, innovative consciousness and practical ability. The Department of International Finance was established on the basis of the major of international finance in the Department of World Economics 1998, and a number of well-known scholars from domestic education and academic circles have emerged successively, such as Wu and Xie Shusen. Teachers 1 1 person, including 5 professors and 3 associate professors. The current dean is Professor Jin.

The Department of International Finance aims to cultivate compound senior talents who have mastered the basic theories and professional knowledge of world economy and finance, have innovative consciousness and research ability, have high foreign language skills, have a solid theoretical foundation and a wide range of knowledge, have the ability to engage in theoretical and practical work of foreign trade in the world economy, and can engage in scientific research and practice in national and local government departments and related fields. The Securities and Futures Department, formerly known as Shanghai Securities and Futures Institute, was established on June 8, 1994. Founded jointly by Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Shanghai Stock Exchange, it is the first institution of higher learning in China that specializes in training securities and futures professionals. Teachers 16, including 3 professors and 6 associate professors. The current dean is Associate Professor Yang Jinqiang.

The Department of Securities and Futures aims to cultivate and bring up high-quality, compound, export-oriented and innovative securities and futures and financial engineering professionals with dedication and financial professional ethics to meet the needs of the socialist market economy. Based on the training of professional talents, the Department is committed to becoming a first-class training base for senior talents in financial engineering and securities and futures with strong strength and distinctive characteristics in China, adhering to the school spirit of "diligence, preciseness, realism and innovation" put forward when the Securities and Futures Institute was established. Corporate Finance Department is a young and steady department, which was established in June 2009. There are 6 teachers/kloc-0, including 3 professors and 6 associate professors. The department was established on the basis of the corporate finance teaching and research section of the School of Finance and absorbed relevant teachers. The main courses include: corporate finance, financial statement analysis, corporate value evaluation, corporate mergers and acquisitions, and international corporate finance. The current dean is Professor Li Yao.

Corporate finance is one of the important pillars of modern finance, aiming at cultivating senior corporate finance professionals who have extensive and solid basic knowledge of corporate finance, can adapt to the ever-changing world financial development and have an international financial vision.