Introduction for Master of Asset Evaluation (Professional Degree)

Program code: 025600 　　　　name of program: asset evaluation (professional degree)

1. Major research area and tutors

Enterprise value evaluation; financial asset evaluation; project investment and financing management

Tutors: 14 (in the order of surname)

Xing Bi, Jun Du, Mingyuan Guo, Haitao Li, Zhenhua Li, Tiancheng Shang, Zhenyu Yu, Hui Sun, Jiansheng Tang, Wenqing Wu, Baochen Yang, Kelei Yang, Xi Zhao, Liqun Zheng

2. Program features

Tianjin University is one of the higher universities and colleges to establish professional master of asset evaluation, which is based on the doctor program of technical economy and management as a national key cultivation discipline, the doctor program of accounting, and the master program of applied economics as a first-class discipline. Asset evaluation is designed to provide scientific basis and effective means for asset value on base of integration of economics, accounting, finance, management and other disciplines. With development of capital market, the market has an ever-increasing need for professional talents of kinds of asset evaluation and management skills. The students of the discipline are to learn asset evaluation, financial asset investment and evaluation, financial management, real estate evaluation, technical economy, and other basic theory and knowledge, get the basic training of asset evaluation, investment management and evaluation, and others, and master the ability of analyzing and solving problems of asset evaluation and finance.

The master program of the discipline is to cultivate senior and applicable talents who have good political thought quality and career quality, fully understand theory and practice of asset evaluation, systematically master basic skill and theory of asset evaluation, possess knowledge and ability of quantitive analysis and evaluation for intangible asset evaluation, have broad foundation, high quality and innovation, and be familiar with international operation routine.

3. Major scientific research programs and achievements in recent years

In recent years, the teachers of the program have completed hundreds of programs including National Natural Foundation programs, provincial scientific research programs, and other entrusted programs by departments and enterprises, and got more than 10 awards of Provincial Prize for Progress in Science and Technology. Besides, they are shouldering more than 20 programs including National Natural Foundation programs, national key science and technology programs, and provincial scientific research programs. In recent years, they have published hundreds of papers in international and national academic journals, and published tens of textbooks and treatises.

4. The enrollment in recent years

Since 2012, the discipline has begun to admit full-time professional master of asset evaluation. The students’ quality ranks top in China.

5. Major courses for masters and dissertation requirements

Major courses for master: applied statistics, modern management, economics, asset evaluation, investment theory and practice, senior financial management, financial institute and financial market, senior accounting, real estate evaluation and others

As for dissertation, the students should extensively understand new trends of international and national fields, and creatively use theory and means of asset evaluation to solve the theory and practical problems in capital market practice. Besides, the selection of dissertation should be of practice or practical background or applicable value. The dissertation should have rigid theoretical analysis, detail practical data and full empirical computation, and could reflect students’ ability to comprehensively solve practical problems with theory, means and technology. Moreover, it should also have certain theoretical depth and advancement and its written time shall be not less than 1 year. The writing of the dissertation should be of distinctive nuance, sound logic, and fluent style, and conform to technical writing standard.

Students should lay solid theoretical foundation, and possess some abilities upon graduation by virtue of learning during master period: master theory, means and technology of modern asset evaluation; skillfully use quantitive analysis tools and models; be qualified to asset evaluation research and asset evaluation management.

6. Employment

After graduation, students should engage in asset evaluation, investment and financing management, financial analysis and others in asset evaluation institutes, financial companies, accounting firms, security companies, investment or management consultation companies, commercial banks, international or national financial institutes, governmental organs, or large and medium enterprises.