Development Strategy and Future Prospects

Our School of Accounting and Finance has long been the top choice for students. Since its establishment, the school has been dedicated to integrating business education, aligning with practical applications, integrating technological advancements, innovating curriculum, cultivating leadership with integrity, and fostering international perspectives and mobility. These efforts have distinguished our students with distinctive competencies essential for industry demands, both present and future. Facing globalization, demographic shifts, intense competition, educational diversification, and the era of knowledge and digital economy, our school will continue to enhance teaching innovation, quality, and learning environments. We aim to strengthen connections between faculty and industry practices, deepen industry-academic practical research capabilities, facilitate industry innovation and transformation, and expand internationally. We are actively planning for AACSB accreditation to elevate educational standards and align with international universities, aiming for higher excellence in "professionalism, practicality, digitization, innovation, integrity, and internationalization," ensuring sustainability and excellence.

1. Pursuing External Resources

Through strategic alliances and collaborations with industries, governments, schools, and large research institutions, we actively seek resources and practical research opportunities to enhance teaching innovation, quality, and learning environments. We strengthen the link between faculty and industry practices and integrate teaching and research resources across the school and other university colleges, enhancing student employability, and benefiting faculty and students alike.

2. Curriculum Integration and Innovation

In response to international competition and trends, we design courses tailored to industry needs to enhance student employability. We emphasize the integration and complementarity across departments and conduct SWOT analyses to develop interdisciplinary professional programs. The School of Finance integrates teaching and research resources across departments to achieve shared goals and encourages multimedia and online teaching courses, thereby enhancing English-language instruction.

3. Interdisciplinary Research and Industry Linkages

Focused on "integrating theory and practice," our research emphasizes the integration of departmental research resources. We are fully committed to two established research centers—the Financial Technology Research Center and the Digital Anti-Money Laundering Center—as interdisciplinary research platforms. We actively promote and expand practice-oriented research, particularly seeking large-scale integrated practical research projects with government or corporate partnerships, aiming to serve as a consultancy platform for industry innovation and transformation and providing insights for government policy-making.

4. Strengthening School's Professional Characteristics

Continuously strengthening our school's professional characteristics, we actively pursue "professionalism, practicality, digitization, innovation, integrity, and internationalization." These efforts aim to achieve our educational goals of cultivating high-quality business professionals with international perspectives and social awareness, equipped with integrated professional knowledge and skills in accounting and taxation practices, corporate governance, financial management, and business operations.

5. Enhancing Organizational Capabilities of the School

To maximize the synergies of departmental and research center teams and enhance competitiveness, we will strengthen organizational capabilities and improve service effectiveness. Concrete measures include integrating and promoting teaching resources, sharing teaching expertise and spatial facilities, integrating resources and reallocating academic journal and database funds, effectively constructing an academic research service environment, and assisting faculty promotion and research capability enhancement.

6. Going International

To enhance the international perspectives of our faculty and students, we continue to promote English-language proficiency, introduce international courses, facilitate student internships abroad and visits to foreign enterprises, engage in international academic exchanges, recruit international students, offer courses in English, establish EMBA programs overseas, offer international cultural general education courses, and prepare for AACSB accreditation to enhance educational quality and align with international universities.

7. Promoting Lifelong Education and Strengthening Alumni Relations

To promote lifelong education, fulfill social responsibilities, and adapt to environmental and industrial changes, we will plan to establish degree programs and industry-specific master's programs to meet industry needs based on school characteristics and resources. As Taiwan's first commercial school with nearly a century of history and a large and influential alumni base, our school will enhance alumni connections, foster alumni cohesion, offer alumni opportunities for relevant continuing education, invite alumni back for collaborative teaching, mentor younger students in career planning and development, seek industry-academic cooperation projects, and provide alumni with needed staff, creating win-win situations.

8. Fulfilling Social Responsibilities

Our school will continue to cultivate business professionals needed for national economic development and industry, especially in digital governance, compliance technology, and intangible asset evaluation, and guide enterprise innovation business models. This aligns with government initiatives promoting local regeneration and innovative economy, serving society, and advancing toward the realm of "financial big data, creating a new economy."

The School of Finance will uphold its core values of "professional integration, integrity and honesty, innovation and pragmatism, joyful learning," continually improving and developing to cultivate high-caliber financial management and business operations professionals with independent thinking, innovative mindsets, communication abilities, international perspectives, humanistic qualities, and service spirit. We aim to be recognized as the "best reputation" and "most popular" first-class college in the industry employment market.