On the occasion of the Chinese New Year, SWUFE (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics) has sent a gift package to our Faculty.

A delegation of six people from SWUFE visited BME and BME GTK on 20 September 2023. After a meeting with the Vice Rector for International Affairs, the delegation held discussions with the leadership of GTK in Building Q to discuss potential research and educational collaborations.

Founded in 1925, SWUFE, located in Chengdu, China, is a university under the direct administration of the Chinese Ministry of Education. Over the decades, SWUFE has produced many prominent leaders in the financial sector and various industries (e.g. China Securities Regulatory Commission, Shanghai Stock Exchange, etc.) from among its 170,000 alumni. SWUFE currently includes 28 organisational units, and offers a total of 35 bachelor’s, 81 master’s and 56 doctoral programmes to students, 12 of which are in English. The university has approximately 22,000 students (14,700 undergraduate students, 6,440 master students, 740 doctoral students).

The two institutions plan to cooperate in the following areas:

• Exchange of teachers, researchers and administrative staff
• Student exchange programme
• Educational cooperation
• Academic research cooperation
• Dual degree programme
• Joint degree programme
• Sharing joint research results
• Exchange of institutional publications