Founded in 1960, it is a well-known university of finance and economics in China, a key university with special characteristics of economics and management in East China, and is known as the "cradle of international business elites"

Shanghai University of International Business and Economics is one of the national universities of finance and economics, with its main campus located in Songjiang District, the birthplace of Shanghai's history and culture. Founded in 1960, the development of the school has always been in close prowess with the country's opening up and the development of foreign trade for 55 years.

The school adheres to the philosophy of "student-oriented, academic-oriented", and currently has five university disciplines: economics, management, literature, law and science, and has the School of International Economics and Trade, the School of International Business and Foreign Languages, the School of Finance and Management, the School of Law, the School of Business Administration, the School of Accounting, the School of Convention and Exhibition and Tourism, the School of Statistics and Information, the School of International Exchange, the School of International and Continuing Education, and the School of WTO Research and Education. At present, the university has a total of 30 undergraduate majors, 4 first-level discipline master's programs, and 41 second-level master's degree programs. The university has established a national experimental teaching demonstration center, a national talent training model innovation experimental area, and a national undergraduate entrepreneurship education base. International Economics and Trade, English, Finance, Logistics Management, and Business Administration are the characteristic majors of the Ministry of Education, financial management and international trade practice are national excellent courses, and Marketing, Securities Investment Analysis and Business Logistics are national bilingual teaching demonstration courses. The teaching team of the business administration series courses is a national teaching team. The school has more than 1,000 faculty members, more than 400 senior teachers, more than 10,000 graduate and undergraduate students, and more than 2,000 international students.

The school is the cradle of China's foreign economic and trade talents, focusing on the coordinated development of students' "knowledge, ability and quality", improving students' international communication ability and professional practice ability, employability and entrepreneurial ability, professional quality and social responsibility awareness, and forming a distinctive international economic and trade application-oriented talent training model. Since its establishment, many of the international economic and trade professionals trained by the university for the country have become leaders of China's foreign economic and trade business circles, elite backbones of multinational corporations or foreign-related enterprises, and have given full play to their talents in the world economic and trade arena. Since the establishment of the school, the number of jobs provided by graduates to the society after starting their own businesses has exceeded the total number of students. In recent years, students have won many championships in various professional competitions held at home and abroad.

In recent years, teachers have undertaken hundreds of national, provincial and ministerial projects. The university has made an active contribution to the restoration of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The university initiated the establishment of the "Shanghai Research Center of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade", "Shanghai Research Center of the World Trade Organization", "Trade Policy Review Center of the WTO", "Research Center of the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism" and other institutions, and is one of the first chair universities of the World Trade Organization. The university has been approved to establish the key research base of humanities and social sciences in Shanghai universities, the Shanghai Institute of Development Strategy of Shanghai Social Science Innovation Research Base, the Institute of Strategic Studies of Shanghai International Trade Center and other research platforms, and the experts of the university have been approved as the chief experts and leaders of the "Shanghai Social Science Innovation Research Base" and the "Studio of Shanghai Development Strategy Research Institute" to systematically carry out high-level research in the field of international trade and serve the foreign economic and trade undertakings of Shanghai and the country.

The university actively carries out international exchanges and cooperation, and has successively concluded cooperation and exchange agreements with more than 100 countries and overseas partners, and established Sino-foreign cooperative education, joint training or exchange programs. There are three Confucius Institutes, which are the receiving institutions for Chinese Government Scholarship students and the Shanghai Municipal Government Scholarship students.

Look at the Kunpeng in the current dynasty, and the new journey is moving forward. The university will continue to implement the Outline of the National Medium- and Long-term Education Reform and Development Plan (2010-2020), comprehensively deepen the comprehensive reform, comprehensively strengthen the rule of law, fully implement the strict governance of the party, continue to forge ahead, and strive to develop into a high-level, international, and distinctive applied research university.