Shandong University of Finance and Economics is located in Jinan, the capital city of Shandong Province. It is a university jointly established by the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education and Shandong Province. It is an ordinary financial institution with a long history, distinctive financial characteristics, outstanding comprehensive strength and certain influence in China.
20 1 1 On July 4th, the former Shandong Institute of Economics and Shandong Institute of Finance merged to form Shandong University of Finance and Economics. 20 12 On August 23rd, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Shandong Province signed an agreement to jointly build Shandong University of Finance and Economics. In 20 13, with the approval of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, the school was officially granted the right to confer doctoral degrees. 20 13 12, the school was selected as the construction unit of the project "* * * Building a prestigious school with talents training characteristics (i.e. a prestigious school with Shandong characteristics)". This school is one of the founding universities of the Sino-Russian Economic University Alliance, and the only financial university in Shandong Province that has the right to award doctoral degrees.