The school of Economics

The Department of Economics of Xiamen University was founded in 1923. The school of Economics was established on the basis of the Economics Department in 1982, with the approval of the Ministry of Education. The Department of Economics itself was transformed from the former teaching and research branch of Political Economics. At present, the Economics Department consists of three teaching and research branches: Political Economics, History of Economic Thoughts, and Modern Economics. The Economics Department offers one undergraduate program in Economics which is one of the first National Bases for Training Talent in Economics; six master programs for secondary disciplines under theoretical economics: Political Economics, History of Economic Thoughts, Western Economics, History of Economics, Development Economics, Economics of Management (newly established specialty on its own), and Economics of Population, Resources and Environment. The theoretical economics has the right to confer doctoral degree in the primary disciplines of theoretical economics and has the post-doctoral research station in theoretical economics. Among them, Political Economics, the discipline this department collaborated with Institute of Economics, is the state’s key discipline in its field. The department has the right to enroll doctoral candidates in all secondary disciplines under theoretical economics.