Shanxi Institute of Finance and Taxation, located in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province, is a full-time college that trains applied talents of higher finance and economics, and is the first batch of national demonstration higher vocational colleges. The school now enrolls students from 8 provinces in China, with 50 full-time students and 74 correspondence students. Since its establishment, it has sent 39,055 full-time graduates to the society and trained on-the-job cadres128,476.

Shanxi Vocational and Technical College is an ordinary higher vocational and technical college under the Shanxi Provincial Department of Education. 20 10 was identified as "National Model Key Vocational College Construction Unit" by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance. The college consists of four secondary colleges, namely College of Materials and Architecture Engineering, College of Information Engineering, College of Logistics Business and College of Mechanical Engineering, which are distributed in four campuses. In 20 13, the college's new campus construction project covering an area of 1050 mu in Dongshan, Taiyuan has been approved by the provincial development and reform commission.

Shanxi Institute of Architecture and Technology is a national model backbone vocational college and one of the largest vocational colleges with the longest running history in Shanxi Province. Its predecessor was Shanxi Architectural Engineering School, which was established in 1952 as a national key secondary school. Located at No.50 Xuefu Street, Taiyuan City, it belongs to the Shanxi Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and its business is led by the Shanxi Provincial Department of Education.