国际商学院前身为经贸系，成立于2005年。2014年开始招收本科生，是学校最早开设本科专业的教学院系之一。学院拥有一支学科基本齐全、结构合理、教学科研水平较高的专业教师队伍，现有教师中，硕士及以上学位占90%，博士以及博士在读占26%，高级职称教师占52%；具有企业工作背景的双师型教师占41%。学院特聘校外客座教授20多人，湖南省教学能手2人。

国际商学院涵盖经济、管理、文学三大学科，除设有国际经济与贸易、金融工程、互联网金融、电子商务、物流管理、商务英语6个本科专业外，还拥有金融专业硕士建设点。

经过多年探索与实践，学院在电子商务、国际经济与贸易领域逐渐形成办学特色与优势。电子商务专业为湖南省一流本科专业建设点，国际经济与贸易专业是学校一流本科专业建设点。《网络营销》《国际市场营销》《电子商务法》《网站规划与网页设计》等课程被认定为湖南省一流本科课程。

学院应用经济学学科是学校首批立项的应用特色学科之一。3年来，教师共承担湖南省社科基金项目、教育部产学合作、协同育人项目、湖南省教育规划项目等省部级项目50多项，出版著作14部，公开发表论文200多篇。学院设有云智商务、跨境电子商务、商务语言与文化等4个省级“双创”教育中心与基地。

学院建有新媒体运营实验室、商品拍摄与数据采集实验室、金融科技实验室、国际商务虚拟仿真实训室等1500多平方米的实验实训场地，实训教学场地不仅满足了专业课程的实践教学，还在学生学科竞赛、创新创业活动、服务地方经济发展等方面发挥了重要作用。近3年中，学生在省级及以上学科竞赛中获得奖项90多项、创新创业类大赛中获奖20多项，立项省级大学生创新创业训练计划项目10余项；开展“我为家乡代言”等活动，与地方品牌联手打造农产品多渠道电商营销模式助力地方传统工艺及文化的经济发展；通过专业社会实践，助力一带一路建设。。

学院与湖南省跨境电商生态产业园、湖南嘉德集团有限公司等单位合作成立了跨境电商学院，充分发挥企业优势，共建卓越人才班试点班，为应用型人才培养探索出了一条新的培养路径。学院已与省内外行业企业共建校外实践实训基地20多个。

学院以培养学生的核心竞争力为导向，加强内涵建设，努力深化教育教学改革。获得省级教学成果奖2项，校级教学成果奖2项。

展望未来，砥砺前行。学院将进一步凝心聚力，开拓进取，不断加强内涵建设，突出特色发展，为社会培养更多具有自强不息、敢为人先的，具有创新意识和国际视野的高素质应用型人才。

Introduction to International Business School

International Business School (IBS) was founded in 2005, formerly known as the Department of Economics and Trade. As one of the first schools at Hunan University of Information Technology (HUIT) authorized to run undergrauate programs, IBS started its enrollment of undergraduate students in 2014. Since then, it has developed a well-structured faculty with different disciplinary backgrounds, among which 90% owns master degree, 26% has or is studying for doctoral degree, 52% have senior academic or professional titles, and 41% are Dual-Qualified Teachers with enterprise working experience. There are also over 20 visiting professors and 2 Hunan Teaching Experts at IBS.

 IBS covers three disciplines, including Economics, Management and Literature. At present, there are 6 undergraduate programs including International economics and Trade, Financial Engineering, Internet Finance, E-commerce, Logistics Management, Business English, and one master degree program under construction named Finance.

 After years of exploration and practice, IBS has gradually formed its school-running characteristics in the fields of E-commerce as well as International Economy and Trade. E-commerce is a provincial first-class undergraduate program development project, and International Economy and Trade is a first-class undergraduate program development project of the university. Internet Marketing, International Marketing, E-commerce Law, Website planning and Web Design have been recognized as provincial first-class undergraduate courses.

 The Discipline of Applied Economics of IBS is one of the featured disciplines of application approved by the university. Over the past three years, the faculty has carried out more than 50 ministerial, provincial and enterprise-entrusted research projects such as Hunan Social Science Fund Project, Industry-School Cooperation and Collaborative Education Project of the MOE and Hunan Education Planning Project, and also published 14 scholarly works as well as more than 200 academic papers widely in well-known domestic and international journals. IBS has set up four provincial “Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation” education centers and bases, including Yunzhi Commerce, Cross-border E-commerce, Business Language and Culture.

 IBS has various experimental and training venues, such as new media operation laboratory, commodity shooting and data acquisition laboratory, financial technology laboratory and international business virtual simulation training room. The training and teaching venues not only facilitate the practical teaching of professional courses, but also contribute to student discipline competitions, innovation and entrepreneurship activities and actions serving local economic development. In the past three years, students have won more than 90 awards in discipline competitions at the provincial and above level and more 20 awards in innovation and entrepreneurship competitions; furthermore, over 10 provincial college students’ innovation and entrepreneurship training programs have been approved. IBS also sponsored activities, like “I Speak for My Hometown”, to collaborate with local brand enterprises with the purpose of creating a multi-channel e-commerce marketing model for agricultural products. It also endeavors to boost the local Economic development of traditional crafts and culture. Through such social practice, IBS endeavors to contribute its due part to the Belt and Road Initiative

 Giving full play to the strength of enterprises, IBS has established a Cross-border E-commerce College in cooperation with enterprises such as Hunan Cross-border E-commerce Ecological Industrial Park and Hunan Jiade Group Co., Ltd. Based on such effort, pilot classes of talents have been forged collaboratively to explore a new training path for the cultivation of practical talents. IBS has set up more than 20 off-campus practical training bases with enterprises in various industrial inside and outside the province.

 Centering on cultivating students’ core competitiveness, IBS is commited to inner quality improvement and strives to deepen education reforms, thus 2 provincial Teaching Achievements Prizes and 2 school-level Teaching Achievements Prizes.

 Looking into the future , IBS will work hard to press ahead and is dedicated to forging a top-class business school with far-reaching impacts and wide recognization, aiming at cultivating well-qualified business elites that can make unremitting efforts with pioneering spirit and global view.