The School of Economics and Management (SEM) of Xidian University was founded in 1980 as the Department of Management Engineering and Information Engineering. It was one of the first management schools (departments) set up in the early period of China’s Reform and Opening-up.
After more than 40 years of development, SEM now has one postdoctoral research station, four first-class disciplines, one doctoral degree authorization point, four first-class master's degree authorization points, five professional master's degree authorization points, 10 undergraduate majors (four national first-class majors, six provincial first-class majors, including one China-US joint education program) and one provincial experimental teaching demonstration center.
In recent years, SEM has created a number of national high-quality courses, first-class undergraduate courses and provincial first-class courses, and one textbook were chosen as the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan National-level Planning Textbook for General Higher Education Undergraduates”. SEM has won more than 60 national scientific research projects, 130 provincial and ministerial level and major horizontal scientific research projects, published more than 130 high-level papers, and won 28 provincial and ministerial level awards. SEM has set up 5 provincial scientific research bases and a number of local and municipal, school-level scientific research institutions and platforms. Many research and consulting reports written by teachers and students have been adopted by the government and enterprises.
There are 136 full-time faculty in the School, of whom 58 are associate professors and 28 full professors. There is one candidate for the New Century Talent Support Program, and 9 provincial talents. More than 30 renowned professionals recruited as adjunct professors.