The top 10 universities in e-commerce major are: China Renmin University (ranking 1), Tsinghua University (ranking second), Shanghai Jiaotong University (ranking third), Sun Yat-sen University (ranking fourth), Peking University (ranking fifth), university of international business and economics (ranking sixth), Nankai University (ranking seventh) and Fudan University.

E-commerce includes electronic currency exchange, supply chain management, electronic trading market, online marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management and automatic data collection system. In this process, the information technologies used include: Internet, extranet, e-mail, database, electronic directory and mobile phone.