The School of Intelligent Finance (SIF) inherits Guanghua's financial lineage, innovates in education reform, and takes the cultivation of business talents with global vision and social responsibility as its mission. The School is the construction unit of the "Intelligent Finance" professional cluster in the first batch of "double first-class" construction of Tianfu College of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. The main features of the college are as follows:
l Leading Professional Layout
Paying close attention to the development trend of industries at home and abroad and responding to the demand for talents in regional economic development, we have five undergraduate majors in Finance Financial Engineering, International Economic and Trade, Asset Appraisal, and Digital Economics, and four diploma programs in Financial Services and Management, Securities Practice, Property Appraisal and Management, and Cross-border E-commerce. In 2023, a new joint bachelor's degree program in Finance (Intelligent Finance) was introduced in collaboration with Chengdu College of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. This program integrates the strengths of both universities, creating an interdisciplinary and cross-university innovative talent training model that combines "New Business" with "New Engineering". In addition, Finance for International Private Banking direction is the first model of professional talents training for the high-end wealth management field represented by private banking in domestic universities. Financial Engineering is the first private university in the region to be established in conjunction with benchmark industry and academic institutions at home and abroad, focusing on cultivating intelligent trading talents that are urgently needed in the market. International Economics and Trade is based on the realities of the Chengdu-Deyang-Mianyang industry and focuses on training practical talents for service trade and cross-border e-commerce in the context of globalization.
l Excellent Faculty
We have an excellent teaching and research team with high academic level, reasonable academic structure and full of hard work and motivation. More than half of the full-time teachers have overseas study backgrounds, and over sixty percent of them are dual-qualification teachers. Additionally, our school also actively introduces senior experts from the industry as industry mentors to participate in talent training and professional cluster construction, and work together for development guiding professional construction with the frontier development needs of the industry.
l Internationalized Training System
Based on the national standards and the international financial industry talent training system, we insist on bilingual teaching on a global perspective, and work closely with the top institutions in the industry from Monaco, Switzerland, Hong Kong, the United States and Australia to create a diversified and international industry-academic platform for learning, research, exchange and further study.
l Industry-education Integration and Collaborative Education
We highlight the cultivation of knowledge and skills, and emphasize the cultivation of competence and taste. We have worked closely with industry benchmark institutions to establish a number of leading industry-academia practical training bases, such as the Intelligent Finance Comprehensive Experiment Laboratory in collaboration with CSMAR, the Intelligent Trading Laboratory in partnership with Australian financial institutions, and several bases including the Financial Risk Control and Compliance Simulation Laboratory in collaboration, as well as the Guoxin Securities Financial Database Laboratory, Zhisheng Personal Finance Studio, Cross-border E-commerce labs, Import and export business process integrated labs, etc. to fully meet the needs of industry cutting-edge skills training. These bases fully satisfy the demand for cutting-edge industry skill training. Moreover, we promote teaching and learning through competitions. In the previous three years, our students have participated in various extracurricular professional competitions and won over 300 awards, and have won four group first prizes in related competitions. Among them, 52 students won the first prize in national competitions, 230 students won the second prize in national competitions, 371 students won the third prize in national competitions, and 25 students won other prizes in national competitions; 20 students won the first prize in provincial competitions, and 66 students won the second prize in provincial competitions. On the basis of emphasizing professional learning, the college has pioneered the provision of diverse professional training courses in the field, including Art appreciation, Chinese and Western social etiquette, noble sports, wine tasting, etc., providing comprehensive quality improvement guarantees for students' career advancement.