Beijing Business Daily (Reporter Liao Meng) With the 2024 college entrance examination scores in various places one after another, voluntary filling has become a hot topic. In the relevant discussion, the employment rate of the applied major is still unavoidable, and the financial technology major is also considered to be one of the majors with a "money scene". On June 27, the reporter found that in 2023, 18 more colleges and universities will be approved to add new financial technology majors. Up to now, a total of 125 colleges and universities are qualified to train undergraduate students majoring in financial technology.
Among the newly established schools majoring in financial technology, candidates can apply for different categories such as science and engineering, business school, normal and comprehensive, such as Hunan University, Capital University of Economics and Business, Tianjin University of Technology, etc. There is also a large difference in the number of points required for different institutions.
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In March 2018, the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice on the Filing and Approval Results of Undergraduate Majors in Ordinary Colleges and Universities in 2017", which appeared for the first time in the figure of financial technology majors, with the major code of 020310T, the degree awarding category of economics, and the study period of four years. Judging from the approval results disclosed by the Ministry of Education, since 2018, colleges and universities have applied for the establishment of fintech majors and been approved every year.
Among the colleges and universities that have opened fintech majors in the past, some colleges and universities will promote "fintech" as a featured highlight major when conducting the 2024 enrollment work. On June 23, the Enrollment and Employment Office of Sichuan University of Foreign Chinese issued a document pointing out that the school has created international financial talents with a composite knowledge structure of "finance + foreign language + technology" by discussing training plans with the industry, jointly building internship bases, jointly organizing discipline competitions, and co-teaching.
Wang Peng, an associate researcher at the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, pointed out that the rise of the fintech profession is actually a microcosm of the rapid development of the fintech industry. With the deep integration of finance and technology, the traditional financial industry is undergoing transformation and upgrading, and there is an increasing demand for talents with financial technology background. Judging from the data, the number of colleges and universities offering fintech majors is increasing year by year, which to a certain extent also reflects the continuous expansion of educational resources and market demand in this field.
"As an emerging interdisciplinary field, financial technology integrates finance, computer, data, algorithms and other aspects, which just caters to the current development trend of the financial industry. More and more financial institutions and enterprises have begun to pay attention to the cultivation and introduction of fintech talents, and fintech graduates can also get more employment opportunities and development space. Wang Peng said.
According to the content disclosed by many universities, financial technology students should systematically master the knowledge of financial technology overview, finance, data warehouse and data mining, data visualization analysis tools, Python financial data analysis, blockchain technology and application, financial big data technology, etc., and have the ability of financial big data analysis and application, financial product design and operation, and the "complexity" of financial technology major is constantly highlighted.
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A reporter from Beijing Business Daily further inquired about a number of recruitment websites and learned that many positions related to the Internet and artificial intelligence have strong recruitment needs, and the entry requirements and salary are also significantly different from other positions. For the 2024 graduates, there are institutions to recruit large model algorithm engineers, with a monthly salary of up to 30,000-60,000 yuan.
Fintech-related talents are "popular", which has also been confirmed on the enterprise side, and a number of major Internet companies have also launched recruitment plans for scientific research fresh graduates. Zhu Guest, a recruitment expert of Ant Group, told Beijing Business Daily that in the past two years, 68.2% of Ant Group's technical school enrollment has been a fresh graduate in computer science, and more and more talents specializing in algorithms have begun to be welcomed and even recruited by various technology research and development teams.
"The breadth and depth of cutting-edge technologies such as AI are greater than ever, and the technologies associated with them are also developing rapidly, and the demand for talent is bound to become more diverse and interdisciplinary." I wish the guests to speak.
Wang Peng believes that fintech involves multiple disciplines, so the curriculum should focus on interdisciplinary integration, such as economics, computer science, data analysis, etc., to cultivate students' comprehensive literacy and problem-solving ability. Colleges and universities should maintain close contact with the fintech industry and understand the industry dynamics and talent needs, so as to adjust the teaching content and training direction in a timely manner to ensure that the knowledge learned by students matches the needs of the industry. The improvement of these aspects will help improve the teaching quality of the fintech major and cultivate more high-quality talents that meet the needs of the industry.