Shandong University of Economics is the first university in Shandong Province to offer undergraduate courses in international trade and hold a master's degree in international trade. 1960, the department of trade and economics of the school offers foreign trade specialty; 1979 foreign trade teaching and research section was established in the department of industrial and commercial economics; In order to meet the needs of opening to the outside world, in June 5438+1February 990, the Foreign Trade Teaching and Research Section was independently established as the International Trade Department. In 2003, the Department of International Trade was renamed International Trade College.