Date：2018-09-21 Read：

      The history of College of Finance can be traced back to the early 20th century. In the autumn of 1921, Jinling University set up the first Agricultural Economics Department and Professor Pu Kai started the research of agricultural insurance. In the autumn of 1929, the Agriculture College of Central University established Agriculture Policy Major which provided curriculum for Rural Finance. In 1952, some majors in Agriculture College of Jinling University, Nanjing University and Zhejiang University merged and became Nanjing Agriculture College, and Department of Agricultural Economics was set up. In 1984, Nanjing Agricultural College was renamed as Nanjing Agricultural University and Rural Finance Major was added to the Department of Agricultural Economics, which started to enrollmaster students in Accounting and Auditing in the same year. It began to enroll undergraduates in Finance in 1985. NJAU got the right to offer  degree of Master of Finance since 1998 and Master of Professional Accounting since 2004, and started to enroll doctoral candidates in Rural Finance since 2002. In 2010, Doctoral Degree in Finance was added to the list. College of Finance was officially set up in October 2012.

      College of Finance provides three undergraduate major: Finance, Accounting and Investment. Finance was named as one of the Brand Undergraduate Major in Jiangsu Province in 2006.  Accounting was elected as a Featured Major in Jiangsu Province in 2010. In 2012, Finance major and Accounting major were listed as Key Major under Development in Jiangsu Province.

      College of Finance holds a multi-level training system for postgraduates programs,including PhD of Finance, Master of Finance(Academic), Master of Accounting(Academic), Master of Finance(Professional,MF),  Master of Professional Accounting(Professional,MPAcc). It also provides Master of Finance program for Agricultural Bank of China and Nanjing Branch of the People's Bank of China, and cultivates many professionals in Finance, Accounting and Auditing for government, banks, insurance companies, security companies and accounting firms.

      College of Finance has more than 40 academics, among which there are 12 professors, 12 associate professors, 9 doctoral supervisors and 26 master's supervisors. 90.3% of these academics hold PhD degree and 32.2% have overseas studying experience. The College also has one professional financial teaching steering committee member of the ministry of education finance, one academic admitted as "333 project" cultivation object in Jiangsu Province, one young academic leader for Blue Project of Jiangsu Province, and three in the project "Zhongshan academic rookie" of Nanjing Agricultural University. College of Finance has cooperated with educational bases which are jointly constructed with companies in the industry, including Agricultural Bank of China Jiangsu Branch, Jiangsu Bank, Zijin Trust Company, Zijin Agriculrual and Commercial Bank, Suning Group, KPMG Accounting Firm, etc. 

      College of Finance provides academics with many research platforms, including Jiangsu Rural Financial Development Research Center(as one of Key Research Base of Philosophy and Society in Jiangsu Universities), China Financial and Regional Economic Research Center in Nanjing Agricultural University, Institute of Finance and Finance in Nanjing Agricultural University, etc. Over the past few years, academics in College of Finance have been in charge of more than 90 programs at or above the provincial and ministerial levels, including Major projects of the National Social Science Foundation, key projects of the National Social Science Foundation, the National Natural Science Foundation, general projects of the National Social Science Foundation, and other projects by the Ministry of Education, the Ministy of Agriculture and the World Bank, etc. More than 300 research articles have been published in core journals such as "Management World","Financial Research","Accounting Research" and more than 30 awards at provincial and ministerial levels were received.