TsinghuaSEM

Tsinghua SEM, the school of economics and management of tsinghua university, is located in southeast of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. One of the first economics and management schools in China, Tsinghua SEM is now among the premier schools in China and in Asia. The School was established in 1984. Professor ZHU Rongji is the founding dean of the School who later became the fifth Premier of the People’s Republic of China. The School's current dean is Professor QIAN Yingyi.The mission of the school is to be a world-class school of economics and management by contributing academic knowledge that fuels the revival of the Chinese economy and cultivating business leaders for China and the world. To reach this goal, Tsinghua SEM attaches great importance to international cooperation, which is regarded as an integral part of the school’s development. Tsinghua SEM builds up cooperative relationships with a number of the world’s leading business schools to absorb their successful schooling experience and to reinforce its own development.

History of TsinghuaSEM:1926 : The Department of Economics was established at Tsinghua University. 1928: Professor Chen Daisun became head of the Department of Economics. 1952: During the re-adjustment of college education in China, the department was split and merged into other departments. 1979: The Department of Economics and Management Engineering was established at Tsinghua University, Began to recruit graduate students. 1980: Began to recruit undergraduate students. 1984: Tsinghua SEM was established with Professor Zhu Rongji as the Founding Dean of the School. 1986: Tsinghua SEM was accredited to grant doctorate degrees in System Engineering and Technological Economics. 1991: Tsinghua SEM was among the first schools in China that began a pilot program in MBA education and recruited MBA candidates. 1994: Celebration of the tenth anniversary of Tsinghua SEM was launched, and Professor Zhu Rongji delivered a keynote speech. 1997: Tsinghua SEM moved into a new facility in the Weilun Building which was donated by Mr. and Mrs. Q. W. Lee;Tsinghua SEM began to recruit IMBA students in the collaborated program with MIT Sloan School of Management. 1998: Tsinghua SEM was accredited to grant doctorate degrees in Quantitative Economics and Enterprise Management.2000: The Advisory Board of Tsinghua SEM was established with Professor Zhu Rongji as the honorary board Chairman.2001: Professor Zhu Rongji resigned from his position as Dean of Tsinghua SEM, and was succeeded by Professor Zhao Chunjun; Management Science and Engineering, Technology Economics and Management and Quantitative Economics were ranked as key doctoral programs in a national appraisal of doctoral programs in universities; Allied with Harvard Business School to launch Tsinghua - Harvard Executive Training Program.2002: Tsinghua SEM was officially accredited as one of the first schools to offer the EMBA program; Shunde Building was completed with a donation from Mr. S. T. Wu and put into use as the Executive Education Center.2003: Tsinghua SEM was accredited to grant doctorate degrees in Political Economics;2004: Tsinghua SEM celebrates its 20th Anniversary.2005: The First Annual Conference of AAPBS (Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools) was successfully held. Professor HE Jiankun, Executive Vice-President of Tsinghua University, started to also act as Dean of Tsinghua SEM in late October 2005. 2006: Tsinghua SEM was accredited to grant doctorate degrees in Theoretical Economics and Applied Economics; Professor Qian Yingyi assumed the post as Dean of Tsinghua SEM.2007: Tsinghua SEM achieved AACSB accreditation, first in Chinese mainland.2008: Tsinghua SEM achieved EQUIS accreditation, becoming the first business school in Chinese mainland with AACSB and EQUIS accreditations.

Partners of Tsinghua SEM:MIT Sloan School of Management (IMBA program, China Finance Research Center, Faculty Exchanges); Harvard Business School (Executive Education, Faculty Exchanges); HEC School of Management, France (Executive Education, Faculty Exchanges, student exchanges); Graduate School of Business of Stanford University (Faculty Exchanges, Co-research，Student Exchanges ), Olin School of Business of Washington University (Faculty Exchanges), Ivey School of Business, the University of West Ontario, Canada (Faculty Exchanges, Case Teaching Training, student exchanges), Babson College, United States (Executive Training in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital, student exchanges); The University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (MBA Degree Program Concentrating on Sports Management); World Bank (Public Company Board Member Training Program Cooperated with Australia Board Institute and China Securities Regulatory Commission) and other European, Asian, American universities.