1. Both Liaoning University and Shandong University have national key disciplines of economics, among which national economics, world economy and finance of Liaoning University are all national key disciplines, and industrial economics of Shandong University is a national key discipline. Compared with the two universities, the economics of Liaoning University is better than that of Shandong University.

2. But Shandong University is a 985 key university, and Liaoning University is only a 2 1 1 key university. Therefore, Liaoning University may do better in the exam and have higher cost performance.