Overview

This Applied Economics programme at Southwest Jiaotong University is committed to cultivating compound master students with rigorous academic spirit, solid economic and financial theory basis, reasonable knowledge structure, wide range of knowledge, and the ability to independently engage in economic and financial research.

After graduation, students are expected to apply relevant theories and methods of Applied Economics to solve practical problems, and be qualified for teaching work or economic analysis and research work in related fields of comprehensive economic management departments.

Since 2012, the discipline team has obtained more than 20 provincial and ministerial projects including National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), National Social Science Foundation of China (NSSFC), and Humanities and Social Science Fund of the Ministry of Education (MOE), with contract funding of more than five million yuan. Related research outputs have been widely published in nearly 300 first-class domestic and foreign academic journals.

Furthermore, seven academic monographs have been published and some of them have won the Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award of Sichuan Province.

Objective:

This discipline is committed to cultivating compound master students with rigorous academic spirit, solid economic and financial theory basis, reasonable knowledge structure, wide range of knowledge, and the ability to independently engage in economic and financial research. After graduation, students are expected to apply relevant theories and methods of Applied Economics to solve practical problems, and be qualified for teaching work or economic analysis and research work in related fields of comprehensive economic management departments.

Programme Structure

Courses Overview:

There are 21 supervisors under the discipline, including five PhD supervisors, seven master supervisors, and postgraduate supervisors accounts for 57.1%. 16 faculty members hold a PhD degree, making up 76.2%. Also, there are six professors, five associate professors, and the proportion of faculty with senior titles reaches 52.4%.

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-06-10 00:00:00 , International

Language

English

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Leshan, China

Disciplines

Economics View 45 other Masters in Economics in China

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

Bachelor's degree or above

Over 16 years old (including) and under 35 years old

Healthy and non-Chinese citizen

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Funding

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