FISF 2021 Annual Seminar is Held Successfully
Release time：2021-12-25
On December 3rd 2021, FISF EMF&FMBA&PDC2021 Annual Industry Seminar was held
ceremoniously at the Shanghai Bund. The activity was jointly organized by Elite
Masters of Finance (EMF), Financial Masters of Business Administration (FMBA)
and Professional Development Center (PDC) to celebrate the initial success of
the school’s establishment of industrial ecosystem, and to witness the growth
and look into the future of the school together with industry representatives.
Jun Qian, Executive Dean of FISF and Professor of Finance, Charles Zhang, Deputy Dean of Academics and Professor of Finance, Wei Zhang, Director of Academic Degree for Engineering, Ying Fan, Director of PDC, Jiajia Hou, Director of EMF, Linjiang Gong, Director of FMBA PT+, and industry representatives were present at the activity. Wei Zhang acted as the host.
In the meeting, Professor Jun Qian gave the opening speech.
He first expressed his heartfelt gratitude to all the participating industry
representatives, and then introduced the school development to industry
representatives in four aspects of the teaching faculty, thinktank
achievements, talent cultivation and domestic and foreign exchanges and cooperation. Ever
since its establishment, the school has constantly strengthened its teaching
faculty and made steady progress in broadening the scale of EMF and FMBA, made
remarkable thinktank research achievements, developed in depth and breadth
domestic and foreign exchanges and cooperation, and cultivated a large group of
excellent talents with global financial vision and a deep understanding of
China’s financial practices. Looking forward into the future, Qian stated that
FISF as an international business school will maintain close cooperation with
the industry as always and supply high-quality financial talents to Chinese and
international enterprises.
Later, Professor Charles Zhang delivered a speech and presented
the progress and achievements of the school’s establishment of industrial
ecosystem. He pointed out that any cultivation relies on the ecosystem in the
nature, and the same is true to student education. In FISF, the
industry-university ecosystem consists of four major parts, LIVE mentors,
industry mentors, cooperative enterprises and industry interviewers. He said in
the future, the LIVE (Learning through Integrated Vicarious Experience) program
will be more closely integrated with courses to realize cross-school and
transnational joint cultivation. Moreover, he gave a detailed explanation of
the 3R principle of the course design of this course, referring to RIGOR, a
curriculum system design with both depth and breadth, RELEVANCE, the teaching
mode of academic professors and industry experts, and RESPONSIBILITY, the
L.I.T.E. series course empower future financial
leaders with soft power. Under the guidance of the 3R principle, the LIVE
program has become increasingly important as the core education instrument of
the school. He stressed that FISF’s three degree programs of EMF, FMBA and
FEMBA will continue to adopt and improve the LIVE teaching method, and, by
integrating the systematic curriculum design with on-the-spot teaching by
industry mentors, help students lay a solid foundation while also consolidate
their practical ability.
Subsequently,
the four industry representatives shared their life experience as partner
enterprise, industry interviewer, LIVE mentor and industry mentor respectively,
and accepted the “2021 Distinguished Contribution Award” granted by the school.
They expressed delight for the school’s high-quality students and leap-forward
development, and spoke highly of its industry-university construction, believing
that the ecosystem not only serves the students but also creates a platform for
them to interact, communicate and grow, which is also a witness of their
pursuit of excellence. In the end, they proposed new expectations on the
cooperation between the school and the industry.
After the speeches, the participating industry representatives took group photos to record the valuable memory of their mutual growth with the school.
Since establishment, FISF has maintained
the school-running mission of “broadening the global vision,
serving national financial strategies, shaping top financial talents and achieving
leading financial thinktanks”, cultivating a large number of excellent elites
for the emerging financial industry in China. The cultivation of excellent
talents relies on excellent student sources while the latter reflects from the
side the high quality and strong power of the program.
Take the two programs of EMF and FMBA
for example: EMF 2019 and 2020 enrolled over 170 excellent students from 14
countries and regions on five continents around the world, among whom 80% of
the Chinese mainland students had backgrounds of domestic universities, including
Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University and Jiao Tong University. And there were also other equally brilliant students
from top universities worldwide, such as the University of Pennsylvania in the
US, London School of Economics and Political Science in Britain, the University
of Toronto in Canada, National University of Singapore and National Taiwan
University.
In 2021, the first session students of
FMBA FT+ consisted of excellent students graduating from Peking University,
Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Oxford University, London School of
Economics and Political Science and other renowned universities around the
world. The programs’ high level of internationalization is
represented by the applicants from countries and regions of the US, Canada, France, Morocco,
Singapore, Hong Kong China and Taiwan China.
In 2021, FMBA PT+ welcomed its third
session elite students who had both outstanding education backgrounds and
extraordinary career portfolios. Many of them were graduates from domestic C4 universities and famous universities overseas, such as Tsinghua
University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the University of
Hong Kong and the University of Washington, among them 15% had master’s degrees
and above, 86% had finance-related backgrounds and nearly 70% took positions of
critical management in enterprises.
High-level professional
talents with global visions can naturally display ultra-strong competitiveness
when applying for jobs. According to the statistics of FISF PDC (Professional
Development Center), by May 2021 100% of the first session graduates of
Full-time EMF had acquired their ideal job offers, handing in a perfect
performance report of employment. They have already started their
new journey of career life, taking core positions in domestic and overseas top
financial institutions, world-leading technology companies, famous consulting
companies, Chinese government units and first-rank entity enterprises.
In 2021, with the enrollment of new
students of the first session of Full-time FMBA and the successful graduation
of EMF and FMBA PT+ first session students, the ecosystem
jointly built by FISF and the industry has “just unveiled its power”.
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