The department of Economic Information Management, as the precursor of information school, was founded in 1978. It is the first department whose mission is to educate professionals applying information technology to economic management field in China.
During the past 28 years, the faculty of the department has achieved great success in teaching and research in the field of Information Management, Information Systems, System Theory, Management Science, E-Commerce, Experiment Economics, Information Economics etc. Prof. Chen Yu, the Chief Professor of the department, is a member of Teaching Steering Committee of Chinese Ministry of Education. He had successively undertaken many research projects of Chinese Ministry of Education concerning creation and development of the curriculum.
The department has 3 professors, 5 associate professors, and 9 lecturers now. All professors have experiences of undertaking top-level research projects, such as National Key Projects on Sciences & Technology during 7th, 8th and 9th national five-years planning, National Science Foundation of China, and National Society Science Foundation of China. They also provide counseling on information systems for government and enterprise. The department of Economic Information Management provides one undergraduate program (Information Management & Information System) with two specializing two directions - Management Information System and Electronic Commerce. It also provides two academic programs: Management Science & Engineering, and System Theory.
The graduated students usually worked in the information department of the organization, such as, information or computation centers in government ministry, import and export companies, banks, insurance companies, securities industry, financial institutions, famous computer company in domestic and foreign countries, universities and research institutes. In recent years, there are large quantity graduated students working in Customs, Aviation Company, Tax Administration, Post and Telecommunication, Communication Company, and high-tech enterprise. They are primarily engaged on computer application software, running, maintenance of various management information systems, constructing network, and management consults on enterprise information .