Shanghai University of Finance and Economics belongs to a university, which is a key interdisciplinary university with economic management as the main subject and coordinated development of economics, management, law, literature and science.

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics is a research-oriented key university directly under the Ministry of Education of China, which focuses on the discipline of economic management and the coordinated development of management, law, literature, science and philosophy. It is one of the first world-class discipline construction universities in China, and the national "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Engineering Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform" are key construction universities. He was selected as the founding member of the China-Europe Business School Alliance, which was jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance and Shanghai, and was included in the national "11plan", the education and training plan for outstanding legal talents, the national innovation and entrepreneurship training plan for college students, the national economic basic talent training base and the national overseas high-level talent innovation and entrepreneurship base.