The School of Economics and Management is the earliest basic teaching unit of Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, which can be traced back to the China Tobacco Cadre Training Center and the Infrastructure Finance and Accounting Class of the Ministry of Light Industry established in 1983. After three development stages of the National Tobacco Company Cadre training class, specialist department and management engineering Department, it was established in 2004 on the basis of the management engineering Department. The college began to enroll undergraduate students in 1994, was approved as a master's degree authorization point in 2003, and business administration was approved as a key discipline in the construction of doctoral programs in Henan Province in 2021. Adhering to the school motto of doing is easy, not doing is difficult and the school-running philosophy of Being virtuous and diligent, applying to the world, the school has made remarkable achievements in personnel training, scientific research, discipline construction, and social services, inspiring generations of managers to keep to the principle of innovation and forge ahead.
The school has a clear training goal and superior educational conditions. The College adheres to the classification training of academic and applied talents, takes meeting the needs of society as the orientation, commits to connotation construction and characteristic development, constantly improves the efficiency of serving local economic development, and trains many excellent and high-quality School of Economics and Management introductionacademic and applied professionals for the government, enterprises, universities and other walks of life every year. The College is located in the Science Campus of High-tech Zone, Zhengzhou City, with a single office building, scientific research, experimental and practical training building, which integrates administrative office, teaching and research, experimental and practical training, with clear functional zoning and superior operating conditions. The office building of more than 10,000 square meters provides modern conditions for the teaching and research of the college.
The college has abundant teaching staff and reasonable echelon structure. The college has 178 faculty members, including 156 full-time teachers and 3 experimentalists. There are mainly professors, doctors and outstanding young and middle-aged academic backbone teachers, 61 teachers with senior titles or above (15 professors, 46 associate professors), 71 teachers with doctoral degrees. There are 35 teachers with various honorary titles such as Central China Teaching Leading Talents, Famous Teaching Teachers of Henan Province, Excellent Teachers of Henan Province, Civilized Teachers of Henan Province, Advanced Individual of Teacher Ethics of Henan Province, scientific and technological Innovation Talents of colleges and universities of Henan Province and academic technology leaders at or above the provincial level, young backbone teachers of colleges and universities, provincial teaching model, Provincial Teaching Skills Competition and Classroom Innovation Competition. Each major has a reasonable structure, professional excellence and dedicated full-time teacher team with excellent young and middle-aged academic backbone teachers as the main body, and a high-quality student management team with high political accomplishment, strong professional ability, dedication and dedicated education.
The professional setup is complete, and the academic advantages are prominent. It offers 8 undergraduate majors (Business Administration, Accounting, financial Management, Economics, marketing, logistics Management, International Economics and Trade, E-commerce), 2 master's degree programs in first-level disciplines (Business Administration, Management Science and Engineering) and 4 professional master's degree programs (MBA, MPAcc, Engineering Management, International Business). There are 3 national first-class undergraduate professional construction points (business administration, accounting, logistics management) and 2 national first-class courses (management, industry-financial integration financial sharing simulation experiment). 4 provincial-level first-class undergraduate majors (business administration, marketing, e-commerce, economics) and 9 provincial-level first-class courses (integrated financial sharing simulation experiment, production and operation management, Marketing A, econometrics, management, finance, financial management A, logistics management, statistics), and 1 provincial-level ideological and political teaching team (management). In recent years, the school has continuously optimized the discipline layout, condensed the discipline direction, set up discipline teams, and deeply cultivated the connotation development. It has 2 first-class key disciplines of Henan Province (Business Administration, Management Science and Engineering), 1 provincial Liberal arts Laboratory (Neuromanagement and Intelligent Decision Laboratory), 1 key research base of humanities and social sciences in Henan Province - Industry and Innovation Research Center of Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, and 1 new brand think tank in Henan Province.
It has a strong scientific research atmosphere and rich scientific research achievements. In the past five years, the College has made great efforts to introduce high-level talents, increase the training of young teachers, and constantly strengthen the scientific research force, and has achieved fruitful scientific research results. The faculty has published 48 books and textbooks, published more than 200 papers in authoritative and core journals at home and abroad, and undertaken a series of important scientific research projects, including 7 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, more than 20 projects of the National Social Science Foundation, and more than 110 projects of provincial and ministerial level. It has won more than 30 provincial and ministerial scientific research awards, and more than 47 million yuan of scientific research funds have been received, including nearly 7 million yuan of vertical funding and more than 40 million yuan of horizontal funding, and nearly 8 million yuan of annual scientific research funds have been received.
The School has a sound organization and strong service guarantee. There are 8 basic teaching units, including the Department of Business Administration, the Department of Accounting, the Department of Economics, the Department of Management Science and Engineering, the Department of Marketing, the Department of International Economics and Trade, the Experimental Center of Economics and Management, and the Teaching Management Department of MBA Education Center /MPAcc Education Center. 9 academic research centers (institutes), including Industry and Innovation Research Center, Financial Engineering Research Institute (Institute of Finance and Accounting, Institute of Organization and System Innovation, Institute of Technological Innovation, Institute of Commerce and Logistics, Institute of Collaborative Innovation, Institute of Soft Science of Energy and Environment). The reference room of the college has a collection of more than 11,000 books, which can provide nearly 200 square meters of reading space. The college has four management and service units, including the Party and Government Office, the Youth League Committee, the Student Work office and the graduate Management office. The sound organization provides a strong guarantee for the teaching, research and study of the faculty and students.
The school has a grand scale and remarkable achievements in training. The school now has more than 3,900 students. Among them, there are more than 3,600 undergraduates and 300 postgraduates. To fulfill the fundamental task of cultivating morality and talents, we always put the quality of personnel training in the first place, and pay attention to cultivating students' professional ability and comprehensive quality. International cooperation and exchanges have been strengthened, and nearly 70 outstanding graduate and undergraduate students have received grants for joint training and exchange programs abroad. Students have achieved excellent results in various academic, scientific, technological and sports competitions. The employment rate of graduates at the end of the year has always been about 95%, and the proportion of students who are admitted to high-quality employment such as graduate students, civil servants, enterprises and public institutions has increased year by year.
Looking back on the past, the School of Economics and Management has been pragmatic and hardworking, and has steadily carried out various teaching, scientific research and management work, which has laid the foundation for today's development. Looking forward to the future, the School of Economics and Management will be full of passion and confidence, continue to adhere to moral cultivation, in-depth development, collective efforts, innovation, and make greater contributions to economic construction and social development.
(Data as of May 2024)