合肥工业大学经济学院成立于2011年，其办学历史可追溯至上世纪八十年代中期。历经多年发展，我院经济学科在国内外获得了良好声誉。当前，学科已进入ESI全球排名前1%、内地第59位；在US News世界大学排名中位列全球第348位、内地第63位。在“2026软科世界一流学科排名”中位列全球301-400位、内地39-61位；在“软科中国最好学科排名”中获评B级、排名前28%。学院拥有应用经济学、理论经济学两个一级学科硕士学位授权点和金融、国际商务两个专业硕士学位授权点。学院围绕区域和城市经济学、财政学、国际贸易学、生态与能源经济学、数据科学与金融计量等领域，形成了特色鲜明的研究方向。

学院现有6个本科专业，其中国际经济与贸易（中外合作办学）和数字经济（中外合作办学）为中外合作办学项目，金融工程和国际经济与贸易为国家级一流本科专业建设点，经济学为省级一流本科专业建设点，数字经济为面向打造数字经济人才培养新高地而设立的工经交叉特色新文科专业。学院高度重视拔尖创新人才培养，2021年获批教育部新文科研究与改革实践项目。近五年，获评国家级和省级一流本科课程20门，牵头获安徽省教学成果奖特等奖2项，获“三大赛”国家级奖项30余项，实现金银铜全部奖项及本科所有专业学生全覆盖。

学院拥有一支政治素质高、创新意识强、发展后劲足的师资队伍。现有教职工111人，专任教师95人，其中教授23人，副教授47人，高级职称教师占比73%，具有博士学位教师占比93%。专任教师中国家高层次人才、教育部教指委委员、安徽省领军人才特聘教授、安徽省政府特殊津贴专家、安徽省教学名师等国家及省部级人才21人，国家外专局海外专家6人。学院拥有安徽省高等学校人文社会科学重点研究基地、安徽省科技创新智库、安徽高质量发展研究院、安徽省财政科学创新研究中心等创新平台，并拥有省级教学科研团队5个。

2020-2026年，学院累计获批国家社科基金重大项目（领军人才）、国家社科基金重点项目等国家级基金项目72项，在《经济研究》《经济日报》（理论版）以及Nature Human Behaviour、Biometrika、Research Policy、Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice、Journal of Comparative Economics、Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization等发表高水平成果400余篇，出版高水平专著教材30余部，中央和省部级领导批示和部门采用采纳40余项。研究成果获教育部科学研究优秀成果奖6项，省部级教学科研奖励20余项。

学院高度重视国际交流与合作，与美国、英国、澳大利亚等国家的10余所著名高校建立了密切的合作关系。2021年，成为教育部高层次国际化人才培养创新实践项目试点学院。学院所有本科专业均与国外一流高校建立了密切的国际人才联合培养机制，其中2015年与美国克拉克大学的本科生联培项目是学校首个教育部批准的中外合作办学项目。2019年学院与澳大利亚国立大学“2+1”研究生联培项目和华沙大学“2+2”本科联培项目落地。2025年，获批国家留基委创新型人才国际合作培养项目。

多年来，学院坚持以“高水平、国际化、特色鲜明的研究型学院”为建设目标，以“立德树人”为根本任务，以学科建设为龙头，坚持以高水平的科学研究促进高水平的人才培养，大力推进学院内涵式发展，不断提升人才培养质量，为国家和地方经济社会发展做出了重要贡献。

2026年10月

The School of Economics (SOE) at Hefei University of Technology was established in 2011, with its origins tracing back to the mid-1980s. After years of development, the school's economics discipline has earned a strong reputation both domestically and internationally. The discipline is now ranked among the top 1% globally in Essential Science Indicators (ESI), placing 59th in mainland China. In the U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities for Economics and Business, it ranks 348th worldwide and 63rd in mainland China. In ShanghaiRanking's 2026 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, it ranks 301–400 worldwide and 39th–61st in mainland China. In the ShanghaiRanking's Best Chinese Subjects Ranking, it received a B rating and ranked in the top 28%. Currently, the school offers two first-level discipline master's degree programs in Applied Economics and Theoretical Economics, as well as two professional master's degree programs in Finance and International Business. The school has developed distinctive research directions in Regional and Urban Economics, Public Finance, International Trade, Ecological and Energy Economics, and Data Science and Financial Econometrics.

SOE offers six undergraduate programs, including two Chinese-foreign cooperative education programs, International Economics and Trade, and Digital Economy. Financial Engineering and International Economics and Trade are national first-class undergraduate programs, while Economics is a provincial first-class undergraduate program. The Digital Economyprogram, a distinctive interdisciplinary New Liberal Arts program integrating engineering and economics, was established to build ahub for cultivating talents in digital economy. SOE has placed great emphasis on cultivating top-notch innovative talents. In 2021, it was approved for the Ministry of Education's New Liberal Arts Research and Reform Practice Project.In the past five years, 20 courses have been recognized as national-level or provincial-level first-class undergraduate courses.Two Grand Prizes of the Anhui Provincial Teaching Achievement Awardswere won. More than 30 national-level awards in the “Three Major National competitions”were secured, including gold, silver and bronze prizes across all undergraduate programs.

SOE has a highly qualified, innovative faculty team with strong development potential. It currently has 111 staff members, including 95 full-time faculty, among whom 23 are professors and 47 are associate professors. Among full-time faculty, 73% hold senior professional titles and 93% hold doctoral degrees. The faculty includes 21 national and provincial/ministerial-level talents, including recipients of national high-level talent programs, members of the Steering Committeefor Guidance in Teaching in Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education, Distinguished Professors under Anhui Province's Leading Talent Program, experts receiving special allowances from the Anhui Provincial Government, and Anhui Provincial Renowned Teachers, as well as 6 overseas experts recognized by China's State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. SOE is home to key platforms such as the Anhui Provincial Key Research Base for Humanities and Social Sciences in Higher Education, the Anhui Provincial Science and Technology Innovation Think Tank, the Anhui High-Quality Development Research Institute, and the Anhui Provincial Fiscal Science Innovation Research Center. It also has five provincial-level teaching and research teams.

From 2020 to 2026, SOE secured funding for 72 national-level research projects, including Major Projects (Leading Talent) and Key Projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China. Faculty members have published more than 400 high-level papers in leading journals such as Economic Research Journal, Economic Daily (Theory Edition), Nature Human Behaviour, Biometrika, Research Policy, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Comparative Economics and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Faculty members have also published more than 30 high-quality academic monographs and textbooks. More than 40 of its research outputs have received instructions from central or provincial/ministerial-level leaders or been adopted by government departments.Six Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Awards from the Ministry of Education and more than 20 provincial and ministerial-level teaching and research awardshave been received.

SOE attaches great significance to international exchange and cooperation, maintaining close partnerships with more than 10 renowned universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and other countries. In 2021, SOE was selected as a pilot school for the Ministry of Education's innovative practice project in cultivating high-level international talents. All undergraduate programs have established close collaborations with leading overseas universities. The International Economics and Trade program, delivered in cooperation with Clark University in the United States, was approved by the Ministry of Education in 2015 as the university's first Chinese-foreign cooperative education program. In 2019, the 2+1 postgraduate collaborative program with the Australian National University and the 2+2 undergraduate collaborative program with the University of Warsaw were launched. In 2025, the China Scholarship Council (CSC) International Cooperation Program was approved.

SOE has always adhered to its vision of becoming a high-level, internationalized, and distinctive research-oriented school. With Foster virtue through education as its fundamental task, SOE takes discipline development as the leading driving force and facilitates high-quality talent cultivation by promoting high-level scientific research, vigorously advancing its quality-oriented development. These efforts have significantly improved its educational qualityand contributed substantially to national and local economic and social development.

Updated in October 2026