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，在“2022软科世界一流学科排名”中位居国内47-59名。目前，学院拥有应用经济学、理论经济学两个一级学科学术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。学院围绕经济治理与高质量发展、创新与数字经济、国际贸易、经济统计、数据科学形成了特色鲜明的研究方向。

学院现有5个本科专业，其中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；国际经济与贸易（中外合作办学）为学校首个中外合作办学项目；数字经济是为服务国家数字经济发展战略，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。近年来，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，2022-2024年在中国国际大学生创新大赛（原“互联网+”）18个项目累计获国家级奖项32人次，实现金银铜全部奖项、本科所有专业学生的全覆盖。2024年在“挑战杯”中国大学生创业计划大赛中2人获全国银奖，8人获全国铜奖。

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125人，专任教师100人，其中教授22人，副教授44人。专任教师中，国家级高层次人才、教育部“海外名师”、安徽省领军人才特聘教授、安徽省学术和技术带头人及后备人选、安徽省政府特殊津贴专家、安徽省教学名师及教坛新秀等国家及省部级人才18人，国家外专局海外专家6人、黄山学者5人、博士生导师4人，硕士生导师57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、安徽省高质量发展研究院等创新平台，并拥有安徽省教学团队、安徽省研究生名师工作室团队3个。

2018-2024年，学院获批国家社科基金重大项目和国家社科基金重点项目等国家级基金项目56项，在《经济研究》《经济学（季刊）》《世界经济》《中国工业经济》以及Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization、Environmental and Resource Economics、European Journal of Operational Research等国内外高水平期刊发表论文100余篇，获国家及省级教学与科研成果奖10余项，出版学术专著20余部、智库报告被中央和省部级领导批示及有关部门采纳20余篇，发展规划被地方政府采用50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。学院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。学院还拥有澳大利亚国立大学“2+1”研究生联培项目和华沙大学“2+2”本科联培项目。

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。

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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, ranking 47th–59th in China in the "2022 ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects". Currently, the school offers Master's degree programs in Applied Economics and Theoretical Economics, as well as professional Master's degree programs in Finance and International Business. The school has developed distinctive research directions focusing on economic governance and high-quality development, innovation and the digital economy, international trade, economic statistics, and data science.

SOE offers five undergraduate programs. Financial Engineering and International Economics and Trade are designated as national first-class undergraduate programs, while Economics is recognized as a provincial first-class undergraduate program. The Digital Economy program, a cross-disciplinary program integrating engineering and economics, was established to cultivate high-level talents in this field and serve the digital economy development. In recent years, the school has placed great emphasis on fostering top-notch innovative talents. In 2021, it was approved for the Ministry of Education's New Liberal Arts Research and Reform Practice Project. From 2022 to 2024, students representing all undergraduate majors at SOE participated in 18 projects in the China International College Students' Innovation Competition (formerly the "Internet+" Competition), winning gold, silver, and bronze awards. In 2024, two students won national silver awards and eight won national bronze awards in the "Challenge Cup" National College Students Entrepreneurial Plan Competition.

SOE has a highly-qualified, innovative faculty team with strong development potential. It currently has 125 staff members, including 100 full-time faculty, among whom 22 are professors and 44 are associate professors. The faculty team includes 18 national or provincial-level/ministerial-level talents, 5 Huangshan Scholars, 4 doctoral supervisors, and 57 master's supervisors. SOE is home to key platforms such as Anhui Provincial Key Research Base for Humanities and Social Sciencesin Higher Education, Anhui Provincial Science and Technology Innovation Think Tank, and Anhui High-Quality Development Research Institute.

From 2018 to 2024, SOE secured 56 national-level funding projects, including the National Social Science Fund major project and key project. Faculty members have published over 100 papers in high-impact domestic and international journals such as Economic Research Journal, China Economic Quarterly, The Journal of World Economy, China Industrial Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Environmental and Resource Economics, and European Journal of Operational Research. They have also won more than 10 national and provincial teaching and research awards, published over 20 academic monographs.

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. Besides the International Economics and Trade (Chinese-Foreign Cooperation in Running Schools) program, SOE also has the “2+1” postgraduate program with the Australian National University and a “2+2” undergraduate joint educational program with the University of Warsaw in Poland.

SOE has always adhered to its vision of becoming a high-level, internationalized, and distinctive research-oriented school. With "cultivating virtue and nurturing talent" as its fundamental mission, SOE prioritizes discipline development and facilitates high-quality talent cultivation by promoting high-level scientific research, greatly promoting the development of SOE. These efforts have significantly improved the quality of talent cultivation and contributed substantially to national and local economic and social development.

Updated in May 2025