Guangdong University of Finance and Economics was founded in 1983, formerly known as Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, with undergraduate education as the initial level; 1985 was renamed Guangdong University of Commerce, and 1997 passed the qualification assessment of undergraduate teaching work, and was awarded the right to confer master's degree in 2003.
In 2008, it passed the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level with "excellent" grade, changed its name to Guangdong University of Finance and Economics on 20 13, and was approved as a doctoral degree awarding unit on 202 1.
Since its establishment, the school has been adhering to the motto of "respecting morality, being diligent, persistent and pioneering", adhering to the school-running concept of "learning etiquette and perfecting technical fields" and the school-running strategy of "rule of law, science, democracy and sunshine", showing the school-running characteristics of "commercial law integration, practical entrepreneurship and diversified cooperation".
It has trained a large number of applied, compound and innovative senior professionals with good ideological and moral, scientific spirit, humanistic quality, professional knowledge and international vision for the country. At present, the school is striding forward towards the goal of building a first-class university of finance and economics in Greater Bay Area.
General situation of teachers and students:
The school adheres to the strategy of "strengthening the school with talents" and has created a team of teachers with reasonable structure, excellent quality, high level and full of vitality. There are nearly 1.600 full-time teachers, including 54% doctors, 43% teachers with senior titles and 26% teachers with overseas experience.
At present, there are nearly 70 national, provincial and ministerial talents, and "Nanling Scholars" 14 are employed. There are national teaching teams 1 team, 24 provincial teaching teams, 6 provincial scientific research teams1team, and 33 provincial famous teachers, outstanding teachers from South Guangdong and outstanding young teachers from provincial universities. The school has more than 32,000 full-time undergraduate and graduate students.
After 40 years of development, the school has built a financial college with distinctive academic characteristics, strong faculty, remarkable school-running benefits, high social influence and high reputation. In recent years, it has undertaken 4 national key social science projects, 64 national scientific research projects, key research projects of philosophy and social sciences of the Ministry of Education and other provincial and ministerial scientific research projects 174.