The International Business School was founded in 1995, formerly known as the SUIBE Department of Economics established in 1960. The School has developed over the past six decades into one of the core institutions, with the largest scale, good talent training, significant academic impact, high levels of social service involvement, and distinctive qualities in internationally-oriented talent training. Home to nearly 2,100 full-time undergraduates, 700 postgraduates, and 200 international students (undergraduates and postgraduates), the School boasts 98 faculty members, including 19 full professors and 47 associate professors. Over 88% of the faculty members hold doctoral degrees and over 32% have experience in overseas education or exchanges. The School has been moving forward with the company of a galaxy of renowned scholars including Wang Xinkui, Sun Haiming, Zhu Zhongdi, Shi Shijun, Huang Jianzhong, and Zhang Yongan.

Home to five leading departments of International Economics and Trade, Economics, International Business, Logistics Management, and E-Commerce, the School has been striving to cultivate high-caliber, application-oriented, and innovative talent who can foster economic globalization and engage in cross-cultural exchanges and all sorts of business activities. The impressive array of talent will be channeled to government departments, financial and trade enterprises and institutions, and multinationals to better serve society. The School’s programs are three-tiered: undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral programs. It has been authorized to offer doctoral degree programs in the top tier discipline category of applied economics and master’s degree programs in the top tier discipline category of theoretical economics, under which there are programs in International Trade, Industrial Economics, National Economics, and International Supply-Chain Management. In addition, the School has 10 secondary tier discipline categories authorized to offer master’s degree programs, including Political Economics, WesternEconomics, World Economics, Population Resources and Environmental Economics, and the discipline category to offer professional master’s degrees in International Business. The School also offers undergraduate programs in International Economics and Trade (English-only), International Economics and Trade, Economics (concentration in international investment), Economics (innovation experimental program), Logistics Management (Sino-foreign cooperative program), International Business (Sino-foreign cooperative program), International Economic Development and Cooperation, E-Commerce, and International Economics and Trade (Digital Trade Experimental Program). The International Economics and Trade and Logistics Management programs have been certified as the Top National Program of China, and the E-commerce program is incorporated into the application-oriented undergraduate program project of shanghai. As introduced above, the International Business School has formed an integrated talent training system at all levels.

Focusing on SUIBE’s goal of becoming an applied research university in finance and economics to be internationally renowned, top-ranked in China, and with distinctive features, the School, adhering to the motto of cultivating virtuous talent for the community and society and the guiding principle of “Students first and seeking academic excellence”, has endeavored to carry out pedagogic reforms and innovate the talent training system to keep improving the quality of discipline construction and talent developments.

The School has won the title of the leading school of course-based moral education reform in shanghai. The programs of International Economics and Trade and Logistics Management have been awarded as key and characteristic programs by the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China. Courses like Practice in International Trade and China Foreign Trade have been certified as the Top Online & Offline National Undergraduate Courses in the first batch. The faculty team of Practice in International Trade has won the title of the education pacesetter and the excellent faculty team of Shanghai City. The textbook edited by the School for the course of Import and Export Practice which is a certified national quality course has a total circulation of 1.2million after being revised and reprinted eight times in a row. There have been 20-odd  courses winning Shanghai Municipal honors such as the first prize of Shanghai Excellent Teaching Achievement and Gold Courses. The School has over 20 textbooks jointly edited with the top publishers in China such as the Higher Education Press and the People’s Publishing House.

After establishing a cooperative relationship with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) in 1996, the School has made joint efforts in talent cultivation in programs of International Business and Logistics Management since 1998. At the same time, an increasing number of student and faculty exchanges between the School and its overseas counterparts have been carried out. The School accepts exchange students from other countries and regions, i.e. America, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Australia, Japan, and South Korea, and there are nearly 200 full-time international students.

After more than 60 years of development, the International Business School has formed a good tradition and distinctive international characteristics in personnel training, scientific research, social service, and cultural heritage.