Oriental College of Shandong University of Finance and Economics is located in Taian City, Shandong Province. Jointly organized by Shandong University of Finance and Economics and Shandong Gold Group Co., Ltd. according to the new mechanism and model, it is a full-time independent college (private) approved by the Ministry of Education. The school is a national Universities of Applied Sciences Alliance unit, a pilot university of the "Data China Integration Promotion Plan" of the Ministry of Education, and a national innovation and entrepreneurship practice alliance unit.

Oriental College of Shandong University of Finance and Economics relies on finance and economics majors, paying equal attention to arts and sciences. With more than 7,000 students, the College has seven teaching departments, including Finance Department, International Business Department, Accounting Department, Business Administration Department, Information Management Department, Humanities and Arts Department, and Basic Education Department, offering majors such as finance, finance, international economy and trade, accounting, business administration, and logistics management.

There are marketing, information management and information system, journalism, insurance, statistics, art design, English and human resource management 17 undergraduate majors and two majors of financial management and practice, accounting, covering four disciplines: economics, management, science and literature.

Oriental College of Shandong University of Finance and Economics is an independent college with full-time undergraduate education approved by the people of China and the Ministry of Education and jointly organized by Shandong University of Finance and Economics and Shandong Gold Group Co., Ltd. according to the new mechanism and mode.

Independent colleges refer to institutions of higher learning that cooperate with social organizations or individuals outside state institutions and use non-state financial funds to implement undergraduate education, so the tuition fees of independent colleges are three to four times that of public universities.