School of Economics, Peking University (SEPKU) was established in 1985. Its predecessor is Department of Economics, established in 1912 by Mr. Yan Fu, after he was assigned the President of Peking University. SEPKU is one of the most historic faculties in the university, and the first economics faculty among China’s higher education institutions.

The academic structure of SEPKU achieves highly integration of the theoretical economics and the applied economics, the economic history and the modern economics. Not only have we developed and maintained advantages of our academic traditions and leading disciplines, but also, in the spirit of innovation, we have established and gradually advanced some new disciplines to adapt to the needs of Chinese and global economic development.

SEPKU currently has 6 undergraduate degree programs, offered respectively by its 6 academic departments, including the Department of Economics, the Department of Finance, the Department of International Economics and Trade, the Department of Insurance and Risk Management, the Department of Public Finance and the Department of Environmental, Resource, and Development Economics. The postgraduate program offers 4 professional master degrees, including Finance, Insurance, Tax and International Business and 7 research master degrees, including Political Economics, Western Economics, Economic History, History of Economic Thoughts in China, History of Economic Thoughts in Foreign Countries, World Economy, and the Population, Resource and Environmental Economics. The doctoral program offers Ph.D. degrees in 8 majors, including Political Economics, Western Economics, Finance (International Finance, Insurance), Economic History, History of Economic Thoughts, World Economy, Public Finance, and the Population, Resource and Environmental Economics. The school also has one post-doctoral research station, which was the first of its kind ever established in China.