School of Insurance Master’s Degree Admissions Profile in 2022

I. Introduction to the School

The School of Insurance of the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) is one of the earliest institutions in China to offer professional insurance courses, and has been engaged in the teaching and research of insurance theory and practice since 1951. It has become one of the most important think tanks for research, knowledge dissemination and information exchange on risk management, insurance and social security theory and even theoretical economics in China. The School has a well-structured faculty and three departments: Risk Management and Insurance, Statistics and Actuarial Science, and Labour Economics and Social Security, as well as two research centres: the Health Insurance and Health Economics Research Centre and the Insurance Law and Social Security Law Research Centre. The university is open to students from all over China for the Master of Insurance, Master of Finance (Insurance), Master of Labour Economics and Master of Actuarial Science.

II. Cultivation Objectives and Duration

The objective of the master's degree in Finance (Insurance) is to cultivate highly qualified and complex risk management and insurance professionals who have a solid foundation in finance and insurance theory, strong language and writing skills, and can work in the financial and financing departments and risk management departments of large and medium-sized enterprises, including Chinese and foreign insurance institutions, various financial institutions, insurance supervision departments at all levels, social security departments at all levels; The duration of study is 2 years.

The objective of the Master's degree in Labour Economics is to cultivate senior economics talents with both moral and intellectual ability to serve the construction of socialist modernization. They are capable of working in Chinese and foreign financial institutions, government departments at all levels, social security departments, multinational companies and high-level research, teaching and economic management; the duration of study is two years.

The objective of the Master of Insurance is to cultivate highly qualified professionals who have solid basic knowledge of economics, master the basic theory, basic knowledge and basic skills and methods of insurance, and are familiar with economic, financial and management related knowledge, and are capable of working in the financial and financing departments and risk management departments of Chinese and foreign insurance companies, insurance supervision departments at all levels, social security departments at all levels, various financial institutions, large and medium-sized enterprises; Duration of study: 2 years.

The objective of the Master's degree in Actuarial Science is to cultivate senior actuarial talents with both moral and talent to serve the construction of socialist modernization, to master the broad basic theories of the discipline, and through systematic professional courses, focus on cultivating students' professional knowledge in actuarial science, statistics, insurance, economics, finance and related fields, and to be able to apply modern economic analysis methods and calculation means to This course is designed to provide students with the ability to use modern economic analysis methods and calculation tools to build actuarial and risk management models, to solve real-life problems with the help of software and tools, to realise decision analysis, and to possess proficient actuarial and risk management application skills; to be able to work in the financial and financing departments and risk management departments of Chinese and foreign insurance companies, insurance supervision departments at all levels, social security departments at all levels, various financial institutions, large and medium-sized enterprises.