Shenyang University was founded in 1980, and its history can be traced back to Fengtian Industrial School founded in 1905 and Xinmin Gong Xue School founded in 1906. In the long-term development process, Shenyang Institute of Finance and Economics, Shenyang Institute of Technology (directly under the former Ministry of Metallurgical Industry), Shenyang Institute of Education, Xinmin Teachers College and other institutions have merged one after another. In 2003, he was awarded the right to master's degree; In 2007, it was rated as excellent in the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level by the Ministry of Education. Postdoctoral research center approved 2010; 20 12 was approved to serve the national special needs doctor training program.
The school has a graduate school and 19 teaching colleges (departments), offering 67 undergraduate majors, covering economics, law, teaching, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, management, art and other disciplines 10, and two affiliated experimental schools have been established with Dadong District and Shenbei New District respectively. The majors offered are: economics, finance, finance, international economy and trade, economic statistics, painting, Chinese painting, environmental design, clothing and costume design, visual communication design, product design, public art and sculpture, bioengineering, biotechnology, biological science, gardening, business administration, accounting, financial management, human resource management, tourism management, international business and so on.