Economic Daily: Soochow University Business School - Three Horizontal and One Vertical Innovative Postgraduate Talent Cultivation System
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In recent years, the Business School of Soochow University has continued to optimise the postgraduate talent training system, utilising multi-dimensional synergies such as disciplinary integration and industry-research synergies to improve the quality of postgraduate talent training, and exploring the three-horizontal, one-longitudinal and multi-dimensional synergistic postgraduate talent training system, which has achieved remarkable results.
Civic and Political Leadership: Three Horizontal and One Longitudinal Talent Cultivation
In recent years, Soochow University Business School has carried out in-depth exploration and innovation in the academic postgraduate talent cultivation system, and innovatively constructed a characteristic ‘three horizontal and one vertical’ cultivation system.Since 2018, Soochow University Business School has comprehensively adjusted and optimised the academic postgraduate cultivation system, and gradually established and perfected the ‘three horizontal and one vertical’ cultivation system. The ‘three horizontal and one vertical’ model of graduate personnel training. Among them, ‘three horizontal’ refers to professional education, innovation and entrepreneurship education and internationalisation education, and ‘one vertical’ refers to ideological and political education throughout the whole process of postgraduate training.
The college attaches great importance to the ideological and political education of postgraduates, and comprehensively improves the ideological and political quality of postgraduates by holding colorful activities, offering courses on ideology and politics, and strengthening the responsibility of tutors in ideological and political education, etc. In 2023, the PhD class of business management was awarded the title of Advanced Postgraduate Class Collective of Soochow University, and the academic master's class of 2023 won the title of Excellent Postgraduate Advanced Class of Jiangsu Province, A number of students won the title of Jiangsu Province Excellent Postgraduate Student Cadres and other honours. These honours are the concentrated manifestation of the effectiveness of the College's ideological and political education. In addition, the college also encourages postgraduates to actively participate in social practice, combining Civic and Political Education with social practice, so that students can deepen their understanding and recognition of Civic and Political Theory in practice.
In terms of professional education in the ‘three horizontals’, Soochow University Business School continues to optimise the curriculum system to ensure that postgraduates can master solid professional knowledge and skills. In recent years, the college has added cutting-edge courses such as big data analysis methods, big data and financial technology, and has continuously improved the syllabus and teaching content to ensure the cutting-edge and practicality of the courses. Meanwhile, the college also encourages postgraduates to participate in scientific research projects and improve their professional abilities through practical exercises. The number of theses published by postgraduates in well-known domestic and international journals has been rising, and the quality of theses has been steadily improved, with several dissertations being awarded as excellent master's and doctoral theses in Jiangsu Province.
Innovation and entrepreneurship education and internationalisation education are the other two of the ‘three horizons’. In terms of innovation and entrepreneurship education, Soochow University Business School strongly supports postgraduates to undertake postgraduate innovation and practice projects, and has hosted the Jiangsu Provincial Postgraduate Summer School and Jiangsu Provincial Postgraduate Academic Innovation Forum for a long time, providing a broad platform for postgraduates from both inside and outside the province to learn and communicate in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship. In the past three years, eight doctoral students have been funded by the Jiangsu Provincial Research and Innovation Programme and nine postgraduates have won prizes in provincial research and innovation competitions. In terms of international education, the college helps all doctoral students to go to high-level universities abroad for exchange and study, and encourages them to participate in high-level international academic conferences to improve their international vision and communication ability. In the past three years, more than 10 postgraduates have been sponsored by the National Joint Doctoral Programme, which promotes the dissemination of Chinese culture overseas while learning international cutting-edge theories and methods. In the past three years, more than 80 overseas postgraduates have been admitted to study at the School, which has strongly promoted the cultivation of international talents who ‘know, love and love China’.
Cross-cultivation: Intelligent Collision of Multiple Disciplines
The School of Business of Soochow University has actively responded to the new needs of economic and social development in the new era, and taken the integration of disciplines and cross-cultivation as the key path to improve the quality of graduate education, and drawn a grand blueprint for the high-quality cultivation of graduate students in the field of business.
In response to the rapid development of big data technology, financial technology and other emerging fields, Soochow University School of Business opened 2 postgraduate subject directions in 2019, namely big data and financial technology and big data and business intelligence. The establishment of these 2 emerging discipline directions has injected new vitality into the development of the college and provided a broader learning and research space for graduate students. They not only enrich the discipline system of the college, enable postgraduates to be exposed to cutting-edge academic knowledge, but also lay a solid foundation for their future development in related fields.
Driven by the idea of disciplinary integration, Soochow University Business School draws on the excellent experience of sister universities in China, combines its own characteristics, and continues to optimise the curriculum system to serve the cultivation of postgraduate talents. Since 2021, the College has followed the frontier of discipline development and continuously optimised and upgraded the curriculum system, adding forward-looking and practical courses such as blockchain and machine learning to ensure that postgraduates are able to master new professional knowledge and skills. The college also actively cooperates with sister colleges and co-organises cross-disciplinary academic forums to promote the collision and integration of wisdom between different disciplines. Interdisciplinary exchanges and co-operation not only broaden the academic horizons of graduate students, but also provide them with more diversified academic resources.
The College encourages postgraduates to select courses across disciplines and participate in interdisciplinary research projects to cultivate interdisciplinary thinking and innovation ability. This mode of training helps postgraduates to integrate in multiple fields and form independent academic insights, and also helps them to better adapt to the complex and changing working environment in their future careers. Meanwhile, the College also organises cross-disciplinary academic lectures and seminars with sister colleges and universities on a regular basis, providing postgraduates with the opportunity to communicate with industry elites face to face, and further broadening their academic horizons and human resources.
Integration and Assistance: Schools and Enterprises Join Hands to Practise and Innovate
School of Business of Soochow University always upholds the concept of open cooperation and mutual benefit and win-win situation, and actively explores the new mode of university-enterprise cooperation and industry-research synergy, which builds a bridge for postgraduates from theory to practice, and jointly writes a colorful chapter of new business postgraduate education.
School of Business of Soochow University actively builds postgraduate workstations with the industry, deepens university-enterprise co-operation and creates conditions for postgraduates' practical activities. The School has actively worked with many enterprises and institutions, such as Dongwu Securities Co., Ltd. and Suzhou Finance Society, to establish several provincial graduate workstations and university-level graduate workstations. These workstations are not only an important place for postgraduates to transform what they have learnt in the classroom into practical skills, but also a valuable platform for them to understand the industry dynamics, feel the corporate culture and improve their professionalism. All graduate students are required to work in the stations for at least three months. By participating in real work projects, they not only practiced their practical skills, but also learnt how to collaborate and communicate in a team, laying a solid foundation for their future careers. In addition, the in-depth cooperation between the College and Soochow Securities Co., Ltd. in supporting the education project in Tongren County, Guizhou Province not only demonstrated the College's sense of social responsibility, but also won the honorable awards issued by the International MBA Association and the Association of Graduates of Business Schools, which further enhanced the College's visibility and reputation.
The college has established a high-level scientific research platform to stimulate innovative activities and promote scientific research through practice. In order to better support the research activities of graduate students, Soochow University Business School has established more than 10 research platforms at provincial level or above, such as the Yangtze River Delta Digital Currency Research Institute and the Jiangsu Modern Finance Research Base, which cover a wide range of fields such as economic management, financial science and technology, big data analysis and so on. These platforms are not only equipped with advanced scientific research equipment and software, but also bring together many excellent tutors and researchers. Relying on these platforms, postgraduates can participate in the research of various practical problems, work closely with their supervisors and explore the academic frontiers together. Meanwhile, the college also encourages postgraduates to actively declare research projects and provides them with more research opportunities and resources. Through these initiatives, the scientific research ability and innovative spirit of postgraduates have been significantly improved, injecting new vitality into the research career of the college.
Soochow University Business School has always been in the forefront of industry-university-research co-operation. The School not only establishes close cooperation with enterprises and institutions, but also actively promotes the transformation and application of scientific research results. By organising activities such as Industry-University-Research Matchmaking Meeting and Technology Exchange Meeting, the College builds a bridge of communication between postgraduates and enterprises, and promotes the cooperation and exchange between the two sides. At the same time, the college also encourages postgraduates to use their scientific research results to serve products and contribute to social and economic development. This mode of in-depth integration of industry, academia and research not only enhances the practical ability and innovation ability of postgraduates, but also promotes the common development of the college and enterprises, obtaining a win-win situation.