Nanjing University of Finance and Economics is a key construction university in Jiangsu Province, which focuses on economic management and is supported and coordinated by economics, management, law, engineering, science, literature and art.

The school has a postdoctoral mobile station of applied economics, and the "Development and Policy of Modern Grain Circulation Industry" serves the national special needs doctor training plan. There are 12 master's degree authorized first-level disciplines and 14 master's degree authorized points.

The school insists on discipline construction as the leading factor and constantly improves the level of scientific research. The school now has three dominant disciplines in Jiangsu universities, such as applied economics, business administration, food science and engineering, and six key (cultivated) disciplines in Jiangsu province, such as Marxist theory, law, statistics, mathematics, theoretical economics and computer science and technology. Before "Agricultural Science" entered the world of ESI international disciplines 1%.

Facing the great demand of national, regional and industrial development, the school vigorously cultivates the research fields with distinctive advantages, and provides strong intellectual support for serving the national major development strategy, regional economic society and industrial development. Since the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", research has been continuously carried out around the national food security strategy and major issues in the field of grain circulation, and many major research topics have been undertaken for the development of the national grain industry. Focusing on the needs of Jiangsu's economic and social development, especially the important practical needs of developing modern service industry, the school vigorously strengthens theoretical research, applied research and development, achievement promotion and policy consultation of modern service industry.