Fudan University took a lead to resume the education of management, and started to enroll undergraduates for Management Science in 1977, and later established Department of Management Science in 1979 and School of Management in 1985.
The past two decades have witnessed a great success of development in School of Management, and now it has eight departments, 19 cross-discipline research centers/institutes, three laboratories, one development center for senior managers and one management consulting firm. Overall speaking, School of Management at Fudan University is now structured to be an international-level business school. The School has nine Ph.D. Degree programs, 16 Master's Degree programs, two professional Master's Degree programs of MBA/EMBA and MPAcc, and three mobile stations for post-doctoral research on Management Science, Business Administration and Applied Economics respectively.
Ended in November of 2007, the School boasts of 131 faculty members, among whom are 44 full professors (including 36 instructors for Ph.D. candidates), and 48 associate professors. 85% of School professors hold Doctor's Degrees, including 22 who were granted diplomas from overseas and account for 17% of the total faculty members.
As scientific research achievements are an important yardstick of judgment on a school's construction and development, as well as on the buildup of faculty team, the School of Management has attached great importance on scientific research from a strategic point of view. Several years of hard work has led to great success in various research areas, with some being well-reputed both home and abroad, as well as a long list of upper-level academic papers, theses and patents, an array of outstanding leaders in all kinds of academic research, and dozens of high-quality research teams.
Every year, so many people throng to the School of Management for further study, and they say that the School is reputed for its high-standard schooling and wonderful education environment, which accordingly lays a foundation for incubating manager-elites one after another. By the end of 2006, the school has a population of 1,039 undergraduates, over 2,000 Master's Degree candidates (including 1,500 MBA and EMBA students), and 278 Ph.D. candidates. Meanwhile, the number of School alumni has reached more than 18,000.