Master of Applied Economics

Since 1996, Tongji University’s School of Applied Economics has successively established master’s programs in disciplines including Regional Economics, Public Finance, Finance, Industrial Economics, and International Trade. In 2006, it was approved as a first-level discipline master’s program, and in 2011, it obtained approval for a first-level discipline doctoral program.

For its degree-granting programs, the school has 20 full-time doctoral supervisors, 31 master’s supervisors, and 3 part-time doctoral supervisors. Among the faculty, there is 1 recipient of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, 2 Distinguished Professors of the “Yangtze River Scholars Program” under the Ministry of Education, 1 “National Cultural Celebrity” and “Talent in Four Fields” recognized by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, 2 young top talents of the “National High-Level Talent Special Support Program” (also known as the “Ten-Thousand Talents Program”), and 1 chief expert of Shanghai University Think Tanks.

Combining Tongji University’s disciplinary strengths with the construction of Shanghai as a “Four Centers” (i.e., an international economic center, a financial center, a trade center, and a shipping center), the discipline has actively integrated disciplinary resources, and gradually refined and formed five dominant research directions:

Financial Markets and Financial Risks: Focusing on the research of modern financial market theories and financial risks.

Urban Industrial Economy: Concentrating on the study of industrial structure layout within cities and urban agglomerations.

Urban and Regional Economic Development: Conducting in-depth research on the coordination of sustainable development to support the transformation of China’s urban-rural economic structure.

Sustainable Development Economics: Specializing in the study of sustainable development economics from the perspective of steady-state economics.

International Economics and Trade: Focusing on tackling key issues in international trade policies, transnational corporate strategies, and international financial risk management.

These research fields embody the disciplinary feature of closely integrating theory with practice, and the school has now become an important base for scientific research, talent cultivation, and policy consultation in China. Aligning with the needs of social development, Tongji University’s School of Applied Economics is committed to cultivating high-quality innovative talents who meet the demands of the new era. It requires students to master digital technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence to enhance their data analysis and decision-making capabilities; emphasizes awareness of environmental protection and sustainable development, fostering students’ ability to balance ecological protection and economic benefits in economic activities; and encourages the integration and innovation of knowledge across disciplines and fields, promoting the coordinated development of economics with technology, the environment, society, and other sectors.

• Credit

Academic postgraduates shall complete at least 31 credit hours, including 6 credit hours for public compulsory courses, 12 credit hours for specialized compulsory courses, 8 credit hours for specialized elective courses, and 5 credit hours for compulsory components. (The compulsory components consist of 1 credit hour for thesis topic selection, 2 credit hours for thesis writing and academic norms, 2 credit hours for Tongji Advanced Lecture Series, and 0 credit hours for mid-term assessment.)

• Curriculum

Course Code 1	Course Code 2	Course Name	Credits	Class Hours	Course Code 1
Public Compulsory Courses	SFS6800	2090268	First Foreign Language (German)	3.0	64
	SFS6801	2090270	First Foreign Language (Japanese)	3.0	64
	SFS6802	2090272	First Foreign Language (Russian)	3.0	64
	SFS6803	2090273	First Foreign Language (French)	3.0	64
	SFS6804	2090305	English Academic Literature Reading and Translation	1.5	32
	SFS6805	2090306	Academic English Writing II	1.5	32
	SFS6806	2090307	An Introduction to Chinese Culture in English II	1.5	32
	SFS6807	2090308	English Audio-Visual Comprehension and Speaking for International Communication II	1.5	32
	CGS6001	2130297	First Foreign Language (German) 1	1.5	144
	CGS6002	2130298	First Foreign Language (German) 2	1.5	144
	ISC6001	2300001	First Foreign Language (Chinese)	3.0	64
	CMA6001	20002950001	Theory and Practice of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era	2.0	32
	CMA6002	2260006	Introduction to Dialectics of Nature	1.0	16
	ISC7002	20000390001	Survey of China (English) Ⅰ	1.5	32
	ISC7003	20000390002	Survey of China (English) Ⅱ	1.5	32
	ISC7001	2900006	Survey of China	3.0	48
Compulsory Courses	CEM8005	1040090	Management Research Methods	2.0	32
	CEM8012	1040109	Optimization Theory and Methods	3.0	48
	CEM8006	1040098	Frontier Research on Sustainable Development Economics	2.0	32
	CEM8023	1040125	Multivariate Statistical Analysis	3.0	48
	CEM8002	1040081	Frontiers of Urban Development and Management	2.0	32
	CEM8051	10001920008	Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization	2.0	32
	CEM8003	1040082	Frontiers of Engineering Management	2.0	32
	CEM8004	1040087	Game Theory	2.0	32
	CEM8019	1040120	Scientific Quality and Technical Economy	2.0	32
	CEM8025	1040127	Service Operations Management	1.0	16
	CEM8033	1040137	Decision Support and Business Intelligence	1.0	16
	CEM8034	1040143	Advanced Microeconomics I	3.0	48
	CEM8035	1040142	Advanced Econometrics I	3.0	48
	CEM6001	2040004	Advanced Operations Research	3.0	48
	CEM6015	2040204	Advanced Applied Mathematical Statistics	3.0	48
	CEM6016	2040206	Management Information Systems (II)	3.0	48
	CEM6019	2040216	Advanced Management	2.0	32
	CEM6024	2040258	Management Research Methods	1.0	16
	CEM6036	2040292	Applied Statistics	3.0	48
	CEM6040	2040314	Business Research Methods	2.0	32
Elective Courses	CEM8045	10001920002	Robust Optimization	2.0	32
	CEM8050	10001920007	Complex Engineering Management: Theory and Methods	1.0	16
	CEM8052	10001920009	Dynamic Pricing and Revenue Management	2.0	32
	CEM8054	10001920011	Process Control and Intelligent Decision-Making	3.0	48
	CEM8013	1040112	Stochastic Programming	2.0	32
	CEM8022	1040124	Supply Chain Design and Management	1.0	16
	CEM8024	1040126	Virtual Design and Construction	2.0	32
	CEM8026	1040128	Policies and Case Studies on Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements	2.0	32
	CEM8036	1040143	Big Data and Applied Business Analytics	1.0	16
	CEM8040	1040149	Network Modeling and Optimization	2.0	32
	CEM8041	1040150	Python for Business Data Analysis	2.0	32
	CEM8042	1040151	Quality Management: Theory and Methods	2.0	32
	CEM8044	1040153	Innovation Management: Theory and Methods	2.0	32
	CEM6060	20001920005	Career Planning and Workplace Competence Enhancement	2.0	32
	CEM6064	20001920012	Decoding China’s Economic Development	2.0	32
	CEM6066	20001920014	Financial Engineering	2.0	32
	CEM6012	2040177	Econometrics	2.0	32
	CEM6013	2040180	Real Estate Investment and Policies	2.0	32
	CEM6014	2040199	Management Modeling and Simulation	2.0	32
	CEM6020	2040218	Operations Management	2.0	32
	CEM6022	2040247	Management Optimization Methods	1.0	16
	CEM6025	2040259	Business Intelligence	2.0	32
	CEM6026	2040260	Service Operations Management	1.0	16
	CEM6027	2040261	Innovation Management	1.0	16
	CEM6028	2040262	Quality Management Research	1.0	16
	CEM6029	2040264	Logistics and Supply Chain Research	1.0	16
	CEM6030	2040270	Engineering Risk Management Technology	2.0	32
	CEM6031	2040271	Project Pre-Planning and Design Management	2.0	32
	CEM6032	2040274	Green Building and Sustainable Construction	1.0	16
	CEM6033	2040278	Systems Engineering Theory and Methods	2.0	32
	CEM6038	2040312	Urban and Real Estate Development	2.0	32
	CEM6039	2040313	Logistics and Supply Chain Management Based on Chinese Cases	2.0	32
	CEM6055	2040373	E-Commerce	2.0	32
	CEM6056	2040375	International Supply Chain Management	2.0	32
	CEM6057	2040376	Logistics Systems	2.0	32
	CGS6003	2130028	Professional Foreign Language	2.0	72
Compulsories	GST6005	20000140012	International Academic Exchange	1.0	16
	ESE7001	20002020001	Thesis Writing and Academic Norms	2.0	32
	GST6001	2900002	Thesis Topic Selection	1.0	0
	GST7001	2900012	Tongji Advanced Lecture Series	2.0	32

Regional Economics

This research focuses on urbanization and spatial governance, exploring mechanisms of regional coordinated development, urban agglomeration evolution, and spatial resource allocation. It applies big data and spatial econometric methods to analyze issues of regional imbalance and policy effects; and deeply integrates the concept of sustainable development to provide scientific support for territorial spatial planning and regional strategy formulation. This research direction strengthens original studies on the process of China’s new-type urbanization.

Public Finance

Based on the innovation of modern fiscal and taxation systems, this research explores the allocation of public resources, the optimization of tax policies, and the governance efficiency of local governments. It integrates digital and intelligent technologies to build a fiscal risk early warning model and assess the socio-economic impact of policies; meanwhile, it focuses on the policy design of green finance and taxation as well as common prosperity, and cultivates policy R&D talents with the ability to analyze big data in public economy. The research direction is closely aligned with the needs of modernizing national governance.

Finance

With financial innovation as the core, this research focuses on fintech, green finance, and financial market risk management. It leverages artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies to develop financial forecasting models, optimizing asset pricing and capital allocation efficiency; meanwhile, it enhances the application capabilities of regulatory technology (RegTech) and cultivates interdisciplinary financial engineering talents who can support the development of Shanghai as an international financial center.

Industrial Economics

Focusing on the modernization and digital transformation of industrial chains, this research analyzes the upgrading of industrial structure, the diffusion of technological innovation, and the design of industrial policies. It builds an industrial intelligent decision-making system to drive the servitization of manufacturing and the development of strategic emerging industries; meanwhile, it deeply integrates the research on the restructuring of global value chains and cultivates elite talents in policy and business consulting with the ability of industrial ecosystem planning.

International Trade

Facing the new pattern of high-level opening-up, this research studies the evolution of global economic and trade rules, digital trade governance, and international investment strategies. It uses machine learning to analyze the resilience of global supply chains and assess trade frictions and geopolitical risks; meanwhile, it enhances the ability of international business big data analysis and cultivates strategic trade talents who can serve the upgrading of free trade zones and the construction of the “Belt and Road Initiative”.