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Long History of Business Education

Fudan University launched its business discipline in 1917, and later established the School of Business in 1929. But the management education was suspended in 1952, when the waves of restructuring hit all the universities and colleges nationwide. After China started to implement the reform and opening-up policy, Fudan University took the lead to resume the management education, and started to enroll undergraduates in Management discipline in 1977. The University later set up the Department of Management Science in 1979 and finally reestablished the School of Management in 1985.

Integrated Disciplinary System

After rapid development nearly four decades, the School now consists of 8 departments. It includes 5 disciplines and 12 sub-disciplines that award doctoral degrees, and 5 disciplines and 18 sub-discipline that award master's degrees. The School provides 5 professional master's degree programs including MBA/EMBA, Master of Professional Accountants (MPAcc) Program, Master of International Business Program, Master of Finance Program, and Master of Applied Statistics Program. It also has 7 undergraduate programs and 4 mobile stations for post-doctoral research. In the 2018 China University Professional-degree Rankings released by the China Academic Degrees & Graduate Education Development Center, Fudan University received an A+ in the discipline of Business Administration.

Incubator of Management Talents

Every year, many students are attracted to FDSM for further studies due to its rigorous scholarship and favorable learning environment. The School has developed batches of management elites since its reestablishment. By the end of 2023, the School has a total of 881 undergraduates, 6,017 master students and 190 PhD students. Currently, the number of FDSM alumni has come to more than 60,000. In addition, the Executive Education Center (EE) trained nearly 5300 students every year, and so far, a total of about 67,000 managers of enterprises have participated in training. EE has served more than 800 enterprises in total.

Strong Faculty Team

The School boasts a total of 164 faculty members, including 62 full professors and 63 associate professors. 98.8% of the faculty holds a PhD degree, among them 81 faculty members obtained PhD degrees from overseas, accounting for 50% of the total faculty members.

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Faculty Members

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Professors

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Associate Professors

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Doctoral Degree

Outstanding Research Strength

Several decades of hard work have led to great achievements in various disciplines and research areas, with some being highly influential both home and abroad, as well as a long list of top-level academic papers, theses and patents, an array of outstanding leaders in all kinds of academic researches, and plenty of high-quality research teams. FDSM ranks 70th worldwide in the 2024-released UT Dallas Top 100 Business School Research Rankings (2019-2023), landing again at No.1 in Chinese mainland and among the global top 100, a position it has maintained for 9 consecutive years.

Extensive Global Cooperation

Since its re-establishment, FDSM has been adopting an internationalization strategy and actively exploring opportunities of international exchanges. It has built up cooperation and exchanges with 110 well-known universities and research institutions from 32 countries and regions, such as USA, Italy, Norway, UK, France, Singapore, Australia, South Korea, and Hong Kong. The internationalization strategy has covered a wide range of areas including student exchange, faculty exchange, collaborative scientific research, curriculum development, corporate links and international cooperative research, etc.

Leading International Accreditations

In order to promote the exchanges and cooperative research with the world’s top business schools and develop more diversified global resources, the School has also joined many prestigious international organizations for business education. In 2007, FDSM was admitted as a formal member of the Partnership in International Management (PIM) and in 2009, became the 173rd full member of Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC). The School jointly launched the Council on Business and Society (CoBS) in 2011 and joined the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM) as a founding member in the year of 2012. The School was awarded the EQUIS Accreditation by EFMD in 2009, and received the five-year EQUIS re-accreditation in 2012, 2017, and 2023 respectively. Meanwhile, the School achieved the AACSB Accreditation in 2010 at a fast pace and obtained the five-year AACSB re-accreditation in 2015 and 2020 respectively.

Steady Progression in International Rankings

In the Financial Times (FT)Global MBA Ranking 2025, Fudan MBA Program is ranked No.30 worldwide. In the FT Global EMBA Ranking 2024, all four programs of the School are ranked among Top 30. Washington University-Fudan University EMBA Program is ranked No.3 worldwide; Fudan EMBA Program is ranked No.10 worldwide; The University of Hong Kong-Fudan University IMBA Programme is ranked No.24 worldwide; BI Norwegian Business School-Fudan University MBA Program is ranked No.30 worldwide.

Pioneer of the Sci-Tech Innovation (STI) Strategy

In 2020, the School launched for the first time the STI strategy in the Chinese management education community, proposing the concept of "Sci-Tech Innovation Brings a Better Future" and "Management Empowering Sci-Tech Innovation". It is the first among global mainstream business schools to set up a STI office. In the past five years, the School has achieved fruitful results in aspects of STI management theory research, talents training, and ecosystem development.


Ibook, development of STI enterprise cases, and building of STI data platform. It has also launched the Fudan Sci-Tech Innovation Entrepreneurship Camp and the Fudan Sci-Tech Innvoation Youth Camp; newly upgraded the Yangtze Delta "JOIN" Sci-Tech Innovation Competition; established an ecological alliance for the development of STI enterprises, and built a platform to support STI investment and financing.

Deepened Cooperation with Enterprises

The School has been propelling school-enterprise cooperation in multi-dimensions to promote talents cultivation and the development of the School, with an aim to give back and serve the society. The enterprises promote their corporate brands and select talents through Career Interest Commune, Campus Talks, Career Fairs, Campus Competition, Practical Courses, Internship Placement, Career Linkage Events, Scholarship, Open Day, Workshop, iLab, D-Lab, Coaching Program, Mentor Program and Student Career Development Clubs, etc. Meanwhile, the School has hosted a variety of forums such as Fudan SVB Forum of Management Masters, Fudan Thought Leadership Forum, Bosihui HR Club, Join Forum, serving as the bond of cooperation between the School and enterprises.