Investigation and analysis of the curriculum system for Chinese E-Commerce post-graduates

With the rapid development of information technology in the 21st century, Internet-enabled E-Commerce (EC) has greatly transformed traditional business by providing instantaneous and worldwide commercial interaction and exchange. In comparison, most of universities on EC education in China appear to be lagging behind. By investigating the fifty-six graduate school websites and collecting their cultivation plans for EC students, this paper focused on EC curricula in fifteen representative universities and carried out a deep and comparative analysis on their curriculum module and characteristic specialized courses. Finally, this paper presents some suggestions for optimizing the curriculum system for e-commerce post-graduates from two aspects mentioned above. It is maybe a useful reference to Chinese EC post-graduate education.