Following a number of the country's top universities have established international teaching and research platform, Hunan University established its own international teaching platform in 2013 - Center for Economics, Finance and Management Studies. It is an international research center to study the latest Chinese economy, finance and management.
The Center has a team of 10 special-term faculties who are tenured professors at world-renown universities, and will recruit 40-50 full-time junior faculties from oversea markets in the next few years. At the steady-state, the Center will have 10-20 post-doctorates, 30-80 doctorate students and 200-300 master students. The Center adopts international norm in its daily operation, and the working language is English.
The Center consists of three institutes: Economics, Finance, and Management. Institutes of Economics and Finance commence in Fall 2013 and opened four courses this Fall, namely Microeconomics I, Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Mathematical Economics. Curriculum will be consistent with U.S. Research University classes for the whole English teaching, i.e. teaching, homework, exams, etc. are excepted to be completed in English language. Each course will enroll several students outside the Center; mainly the ones have strong interest in our Center’s courses of Hunan University, and willing to accept the challenges.