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An Introduction to
School of Economics and Management

School of Economics and Management (SEM), Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications (BUPT), was founded in 1955 when BUPT was established, whose original name was department of Engineering Economics. In 1980, its name was changed into Department of Management Engineering (DME). School of Management and Humanity was set up in 1997 with DME as the main part of it. Along with the rapid development and deep reform in Chinese telecommunications sectors and information industry, a large number of senior managerial personnel are urgently needed in these fields. In order to meet with these requirements, School of Economics and Management of BUPT was reorganized in 2000. It aims at training a large number of entrepreneurs for the Information Industry of China in the 21st century and promoting Chinese Information Industry to catch up with and even exceed the world level.

Presently SEM of BUPT has the a series of undergraduate and postgraduate majors, such as Management Science and Engineering, Economics, Information Management and Information System, Engineering Management, Business Administration, Marketing, Industrial Economics, Enterprises Management etc. SEM can grant degrees in bachelor, master, MBA, EMBA and doctor. In addition, it has one post-doctorate research station in Management Science and Engineering. Now there are totally over 1,000 students studying in the school and an abundant teaching team to support teaching and research. The faculty includes 4 doctoral supervisors, 12 professors and 18 associate professors.

In the field of scientific research, SEM has obtained great achievements in the aspects of managerial theory and communications economy, information economics, communications network system control and optimization, information system and decision support system of communications enterprises, communications operation theory and application, research of communications policies and regulations etc. In recent years, it has received a large number of researching projects from the State, Ministry of Information Industry (MII), domestic and foreign telecommunications & information & posts enterprises. At the same time, SEM has set up Management Modernization Research Institution, E-Commerce Research Center, Posts Development Research Center and Information Laws Research Center. And Policy and Development Research Institution and Large-scale Imitation Center are under preparation now.