Brief History
The Ministry of Education gave approval for the establishment of “School of Financial Technology” on May 11, 2017. The School has been operating since the first semester of 2017. “SOCIAL SCIENCE BUILDING II” on Taoyuan Campus was renamed as FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY BUILDING.
Mission
FinTech covers 6 major fields:
1. Payment
2. Lending/borrowing
3. Funding
4. Insurance
5. Investment management
6. Market information service
【School’s Mission】
To cultivate students to be equipped with 3 major capabilities:
1. Fundamental abilities in FinTech
2. Practical experience
3. Creative thinking and innovative service To help students enter the industries desired
Goal
FinTech lets “Financial Inclusion” really come true. Not only traditional financial industries participate in this new trend, aiming at winning big market share, but also more and more startup companies appear in the market. This new era has brought many diverse products and services, and created a lot of jobs which never existed before.
Graduate Programs
Financial certificates (In 2019, CFA will be included in the category of FinTech.)
Financial Industries
•Digital Financial Product Planner
•Big Data Analyst
•Digital Marketing
•Robot Wealth Management
•Internet Trading
Internet E-commerce
•Digital Social Media
•Media Marketing
Startup Companies
Owing to innovations of big data, block-chain, startup businesses have been transforming financial activities (payment, inventory, insurance, investment, crowd-funding) and internet of things.
Teaching Philosophy
The courses offered are designed to help students keep up with current trends in FinTech.
The two stages of coursework include basic courses in the student's department as the first stage and the second stage is practicums.
The seven aspects of courses offered in the School are finance, professional investments (robo-advisor), cloud-based big data analysis, digital community, media marketing, block chain, and App development.