Master By Coursework

Introduction

Beijing Foreign Studies University was accredited to confer master’s degrees in finance in 2014 and started to enroll students in 2015. Since the start of the Master of International Business program, BFSU has taken the international financial markets as the starting point, taking a multi-lingual, multi-regional, and cross-cultural approach. In our courses, we focus on two-way comparisons between financial markets in China and worldwide. We offer English-taught courses and provide hands-on training for in-depth company research and consultation. Also, to guarantee the caliber of instruction, the school has assembled a strong team of instructors, including academic tutors, professional mentors, and part-time lecturers to inspire our students to become better learners. The school has also prepared a stringent quality assurance system to help our students grow faster as financial practitioners. In this program, students will learn from and together with outstanding peers and be much better positioned for success. Student quality gradually improves as from enrollment, culminating in the country’s highest quality of employment.

Goals

The Master of Finance program has been freshly redesigned to train multi-lingual and inter-disciplinary business practitioners that are in tune with economic globalization and boast outstanding language efficiency and communicative ability. Graduates are skilled in a variety of languages, are familiar with the management and operations of multinational financial institutions, and can brave the international financial industry’s volatility and complexity. Specifically, students will have a thorough understanding of international finance, be able to operate in international capital markets, understand the global investment environment, and speak at least two foreign languages fluently in order to effectively interact with stakeholders worldwide. Additionally, they excel in investment analysis, financial statement analysis, asset appraisal, investment portfolio management, and other fields. They are also well-versed in the various regional capital market operation standards. They can gather and evaluate market data from across the glove using qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and they can quickly make scientific investments, all while upholding professional ethics.

Our educational philosophy of “specialization, proficiency, connectivity, and international cooperation” is reinforced by this goal, which fully utilizes the benefits of our multidisciplinary background and enhances the multidisciplinary talent cultivation model, as well as the globalized idea that governs school operations.

Features　　

Making full use of BFSU’s advantages in language, international finance, cross-cultural communication, as well as its network of foreign partners and alumni around the world, the aim is to cultivate multi-lingual and complex senior international financial talents with first-class foreign language skills and cross-cultural management ability who are also familiar with the rules of international financial market. The program features are described in the following six aspects.

First, establish second language courses to foster multi-lingual international financial talent and provide high-quality professional English courses for students so they can both use English as a working language and grasp the languages of countries where the investment goes.

Second, build up courses on regional social culture and the investment environment to foster transnational financial talent conversant with target nations’ investment environments and cross-cultural management. The school works with the English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, and Russian departments to offer students national investment environment courses and help with relevant practical topics under supervisors’ guidance.

Third, develop a joint cultivation mechanism for overseas colleges and universities to provide students with opportunities for joint cultivation, practices, and exchange in order to broaden their international financial horizons, expose them to diverse cultural backgrounds, and teach them international financial frontier knowledge.

Fourth, provide an diverse international team of adjunct professors and practical mentors, including senior officials from international financial organizations such as ZHANG Zhixiang, former president of the Asian Development Bank, key central government financial officials such as WU Xiaoling, former deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China, and executives from well-known multinational financial institutions.

Fifth, employ the “experimental teaching + on-site case” teaching method. With a plethora of internship opportunities and training bases, each student can gain real-world experience while developing their international financial application and innovation capacity.

Sixth, organize summer school sessions that focuses on improving students’ language and communication as well as their capacity to use English as a working language.