University of international business and economics, founded in 1960, is one of the first two undergraduate universities established by the former Ministry of Foreign Trade, and is known as the cradle of foreign trade talents in China. The school was born as a trading power, prospered because of opening to the outside world, prospered because of comprehensive reform, and prospered because of the opening cause in the new period. After more than 60 years of development, an integrated talent training system with distinctive features and outstanding advantages has been built, with fruitful achievements in talent training and remarkable improvement in comprehensive school-running strength.

The school always adheres to the student-oriented and academic-centered school philosophy and abides by the school motto of honesty, tolerance, erudition and pragmatism. Talent training embodies the characteristics of high admission score, high employment quality, high employment salary and strong foreign language ability. The school has 35 undergraduate majors, including 16 national first-class undergraduate majors and 5 Shanghai first-class undergraduate majors.

The school has established a discipline layout with applied economics as the leader, open economics as the feature, and the coordinated development of science, management, literature, law, science and engineering. At present, there are 1 doctoral programs in first-level disciplines, 7 master programs in first-level disciplines such as applied economics, business administration, law, foreign languages and literature, theoretical economics, statistics and Marxist theory, and 3 professional master programs 13.