PBC School of Finance
The Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance, sometimes acronymized as Tsinghua PBCSF, is a graduate school within Tsinghua University in Beijing, sponsored by the People's Bank of China. It has been described as "a critical intellectual home for China's financial talents".
History
In the early phase of the reform and opening up, The PBC leadership decided to establish an in-house graduate education capability in 1981, with the first recruitments beginning in 1982. The first doctoral students joined in 1987. It formally took the name "graduate school" in 1994, after having initially been referred to as the PBC's graduate department. PBC official Liu Hongru was instrumental in the school's early development.In 2012, the PBC Graduate School was integrated into Tsinghua University, based on an agreement between the two institutions signed in July 2011. The founding ceremony on featured Chinese Education Minister Yuan Guiren, PBC Governor Zhou Xiaochuan, Tsinghua University President Chen Jining, and Tsinghua University Communist Party Secretary Hu Heping. Wu Xiaoling, a former PBC Vice Governor, was appointed as the school's Dean and chairwoman of its Board.
As of April 2023, the college has 25 full-time teachers, 1 part-time professor, 81 part-time master's tutors, 17 distinguished professors, and 4 visiting scholars. It offers a joint part-time, bilingual program with Cornell University for working professionals in China, the Cornell-Tsinghua Dual Degree Finance MBA. In May 2024, Jiao Jie was the school's dean.