History

Financial Engineering evolved from our university’s Finance major established in 1997 (later adjusted to the Securities Investment direction in 2008). The Financial Engineering major was approved in 2013 and was selected as one of the first batch of “National First-Class Undergraduate Program” in 2019.

Features

Relying on the strengths of HFUT as an engineering university, the Financial Engineering major engages in interdisciplinary cooperation to create a distinctive focus on “Financial Technology and Big Data”. The major has independently developed a student learning and practical training platform, achieving autonomous and information-based learning. It actively carries out international cooperation, making full use of high-quality international resources, and has established joint educational programs with institutions such as the Australian National University, Clark University in the United States, and the University of Warsaw in Poland.

Faculty

The Financial Engineering major currently has 30 professional teachers, all with doctoral degrees, and 67% of them possess a senior professional title. There are two doctoral supervisors in the field. Over the past five years, the Financial Engineering team has undertaken more than 200 projects, including 40 national-level projects. They have published over 60 influential papers in journals such asFinancial Researchand theJournal of Banking and Finance. In serving the strategic needs of the country, they have undertaken more than 50 research and think tank projects at the provincial and ministerial levels in the financial field over the past five years. Several reports have received instructions from provincial leaders and won the first prize in Anhui Province’s Social Science Award. Additionally, they have undertaken over 40 projects related to quality engineering at the provincial level and have published two national-level planned textbooks.