Founded in 1951, it is a key university under the national "211 Project", an important base for talent training and scientific research in economic construction, and a multidisciplinary university of finance and economics and foreign languages

The University of International Business and Economics is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education and a key university under the national "211 Project", located in Chaoyang District, Beijing, the capital city. With exquisite campus planning and elegant environment, the school is an important base for talent training and scientific research in China's socialist economic construction.

Founded in 1951 as the School of Senior Business Cadres, the school is under the dual leadership of the Central Trade Department and the Ministry of Education. In 1952, the Central Ministry of Trade was abolished, and the school was transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Trade, under the dual leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the Ministry of Education. In 1953, the school was renamed Beijing Foreign Trade College, which was entrusted by the Ministry of Education to lead the Ministry of Foreign Trade. In 1954, the foreign trade major of the Department of Trade of Chinese University was merged into Beijing Foreign Trade College, and Beijing Foreign Trade College was established on the basis of Beijing Foreign Trade College. In 1984, the university was renamed the University of International Business and Economics. In June 2000, the former China Institute of Finance and the former University of International Business and Economics merged to form the new University of International Business and Economics, which was directly under the Ministry of Education. In December 2010, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Commerce signed an agreement to jointly establish the University of International Business and Economics.

After several generations of hard work and hard work of teachers, students and staff, the University of International Business and Economics has developed into a multidisciplinary financial and foreign language university with economics, management, law, literature and science, and advantageous majors such as international economics and trade, law (international economic law), finance, business administration, and foreign languages (business foreign languages). At present, the university has a graduate school and 17 colleges, as well as a sports department and a culture and art teaching department. It has 2 national key disciplines, 1 national key research base of humanities and social sciences, 1 strategic research (cultivation) base of the Ministry of Education, 1 research center of education strategy and planning, 7 key disciplines of Beijing, 1 research base of philosophy and social science of Beijing, 4 postdoctoral mobile stations, 5 doctoral programs of first-level disciplines, 8 master's programs of first-level disciplines, 12 professional master's degree authorization points, and 46 undergraduate majors.

In November 1989, the school took the lead in establishing a school board in China. Li Lanqing was the first chairman of the school council, Rong Yiren and Fok Yingdong were honorary chairmen, and Wu Yi was the second chairman of the school board. In September 2011, the third session of the school board elected Shi Jianjun as the third chairman of the school board, and Shi Guangsheng, Liu Hongru and Chen Yuan as honorary chairmen. The establishment of the school board has played an important role in the construction and development of the school.

In the face of the new situation of China's comprehensive realization of the goal of building a moderately prosperous society and accelerating the socialist modernization in the new era, the university advocates the concept of pursuing excellence and creating high-quality products, adheres to the concept of running high-quality universities, controls the scale of running schools, runs characteristic universities, takes the road of connotation development, characteristic development and modernization development, strengthens internationalization, focuses on cultivating compound talents, and takes the construction of an internationally renowned and distinctive first-class university with international competitiveness and significantly enhanced influence as a long-term vision and historical mission.