Overview
School of Economics and Management of Zhengzhou University of Light Industry has been developed based on training class for tobacco cadres of former Ministry of Light Industry, the tobacco training center, junior college and Management Engineering Department. With the expansion of school scale and enhancement of school level, School of Economics and Management was founded in June of 2004.
Now there are five teaching departments in the school: Business Administration, Accounting, Economics, Management Science and Engineering and Marketing. There are nine undergraduate majors: Business Administration, Accounting, Financial Management, Economics, Information Management and System, Marketing, Logistics Management, International Economy and Trade and E-Commerce, four (Business Administration, Marketing, Accounting and Financial Management) of which enroll students according to the standard of key universities. In addition, there are two more undergraduate majors --- E-Business and International Business to adapt to the international education in InternationalEducationCollege. Meanwhile, there are dual bachelor's degree programs in Economics and Marketing for all students in our university to apply for. Our school is also the national training base of Accounting Computerization and E-Commerce for key teachers from vocational colleges.
This school has two academic master's degree subjects in first-level disciplines -----Management Science and Engineering and Business Administration. It also owns two professional master's degree subjects including MBA and MPAcc and a master's degree authorization point of Logistics Engineering. Management Science and Engineering and Business Management are considered as provincial key first-level disciplines. Besides, Accounting is the provincial professional with specialty and two majors----- Marketing and Accounting are named as provincial pilot professionals with comprehensive reform. Marketing and Overview of E-commerce are named as the provincial excellent courses. Furthermore, E-commerce has become the provincial cyber source sharing course. In recent years, the school has attached great importance to teaching research work, which results in one special prize, two first prizes and three second prizes of provincial teaching projects.
The school has also focused more on the cultivation of students’ comprehensive qualities and has organized students actively to participate in several national contests in the aspect of undergraduate entrepreneurship such as National Challenge Cup for College Elites in Finance and Youth Entrepreneurship and students in these activities got a lot and made excellent achievements. Graduates from this school have worked nation wide and they are assessed highly by their employers. Employment rate of graduates in recent three years has been amounted to more than 95%.
The whole staff of our school is more than 100, of which there are 96 full-time teachers, including 17 professors, more than 30 associate professors and 42 doctors. In the staff, there are 2 provincial technological innovative talents of universities (in the field of humanities & social sciences), 2 teachers with the honor of provincial civilization, 2 advanced individuals who got the honor ofmorale teachers with professional ethics and 4 academic leaders of Henan Provincial Department of Education. In recent years, teachers’ ability of scientific research and serving governments and enterprises has been greatly improved, and a group of well-known scholars and “amphibious talents” who provide various kinds of consultation service and decision-making reference for enterprises and government have emerged.
The school has integrated teams of scientific research actively and has optimized the resource allocation, which results in 8 research teams with professors being disciplinary leaders and doctors and masters being the backbone. These teams do scientific research and provide research service actively, which leads to many breakthroughs in the aspect of scientific research. In recent years, our teachers have hosted 4 projects supported by the National Natural Science Fund, 8 projects supported by National Social Science Fund and more than 50 provincial and ministerial projects. At the same time, more than 40 provincial prizes of scientific research and teaching research have been obtained. Moreover, more than 100 key papers have been published. The school is very active in serving enterprises and society directly. Every year there are several scientific research projects cooperated with and supported by well-known enterprises such as Zhengzhou Yutong Company and Henan Shuanghui Group. The school holds Management Forum of ZZULI and MBA Forum by inviting well-known domestic and foreign scholars and entrepreneurs to give students lectures.
In recent years, the school has strengthened exchange and cooperation with many well-known domestic and foreign universities including NapierUniversity in UK, Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland, InhaUniversity in Korea and New Zealand Institute of Commerce. Every year, some excellent teachers are selected to pay visits abroad and some excellent postgraduates and undergraduates are selected to go to the above-mentioned universities to study abroad. In 2017, 8 undergraduates have got the support from China Scholarship Council.
The school’s Party General Branch focuses on activities of learning and education, strengthens construction of party members’ thoughts and enhances the political qualities of party members and teachers. Meanwhile, organizational construction of the party branch is reinforced in order to exploit Battle fort of Party General Branch. In addition, anti-corruption construction of Party working style is also strengthened to create a clean and clear environment for the school’s development. Volunteer team of party members from the school is set up and many volunteer activities are organized. The staff is organized to participate in various cultural and sport activities. The school is granted the honor of “Civilized Unit”
The school hasan office building with the area of nearly 11, 000 square meters. The staff has better conditions for daily work and research work. The Economics and ManagementLaboratoryCenter owns complete and advanced facilities, which is in the leading position in HenanProvince. Various levels of students in the school including academic postgraduates, postgraduates of professional degree, masters of engineering, MBA, MPAcc, students applying for dual bachelor degrees, key trained teachers from vocational colleges and undergraduates can share the various platforms of teaching, scientific research , laboratory and practice supplied by the school.