This department, created in 1999, is formed by the original  Statistics teachers and teachers in the Lab of Computer of Integrated  Application. It enrolled the undergraduates of Statistics major in 1986, and  enrolled specialty students and undergraduates of Economy Information Management  major. It now owns 18 teachers, of which 5 are professors, 5 have doctorates, 6  are doctoral candidates, and others have master degrees. There is 1 trainee of  "Blue Project" excellent young backbone teachers of higher education of  Jiangsu Province and 1 trainee of "Top-notch Talents Training  Project" excellent academic backbone of Jiangsu University. There are several teachers who  have been the visiting scholars in German, Canada , etc.  Respectively. The teaching staff, with strong cohesion, has reasonable forming  structure of age and learning-origin.

All the staff, developing the scientific research actively, now have  assumed many research projects from Chinese National Natural Science Foundation,  Chinese National Social Science Foundation and other government foundations as  well as research projects entrusted by enterprises. The research fund reached  over 200,000 annually. This department obtained third prize of the Excellent  Achievements of Soft Science of Jiangsu Province, first prize of the Superb  Engineering of Soft Science of Jiangsu Province, third prize of the excellent  theses sponsored by the Education Department of Jiangsu Province and many first  prizes of excellent theses of Zhenjiang. They presents over 150 high-level  theses, among which, most are included in SCI,ISTP, EI, CSSCI, the copy material  of Renaming University.

Information Management and Information  System

This major belongs to the brand characteristic major of Jiangsu Province.

Educational  Objectives: This major cultivates the high-level interdisciplinary talents with  basic knowledge of information management, application competence of information  system and skills of developing the management information system(including the  planning, analysis, design, implementation, operation, maintenance and  management of information system), who can adopt the information technology to  solve the management problems in the departments of scientific research,  education, economy and trade, enterprises and institutions, etc., and can find  employment of developing information theory research, the construction of  information engineering of enterprise and information engineering of  manufacturing industry, the research of application technology, the education of  information management and knowledge management, etc.

Training Features: This major belongs to the characteristic major of Jiangsu University. With computers as the tools,  statistics, operational research, system engineering as the theories and methods  of information processing, economy management as application object, this major  helps the students to adopt the computer technology, network technology,  information technology such as database technology, etc., modeling methods to  solve the problems in economy management. Based on the database design,  information economics, management information system and information safety  technology, etc this major trains students to master the theories and approaches  of information system planning, implementation, operation management and  evaluation, acquire the practical training such as the comprehensive system  development of information system, professional cognition and professional  production, etc., be equipped with solid information management theory  grounding, the scientific technological knowledge of computer and application  competence, master the implementing and operating of high-ranking information  system software of enterprise information such as ERP system, E-Commerce, etc.,  be able to conduct the system analysis and design using knowledge interruptedly  and construct the solutions of the problems in order to improve management  benefit, enterprise competitiveness.

Main courses: Program design, Database principles, Data structure, management,  Electrician electronics, Mathematical statistics, Operations research, Computer  Basic, Information economics, computer network, Management information system,  Web design technology and application, ERP principle and implementation,  Information security technology, multivariate statistics, etc.

The employment situation and  trends: Graduates can be work in all levels of national management  department, information center of financial institutions, information technology  consulting company departments to do the information system operation management  and maintenance work, or in the software company, all kinds of enterprises to do  information system development, testing, and implementation. They also can be  work in universities, research institutions to do teaching and research work.  The one-time employment rate is 90%.