Shanghai University of International Business and Economics

Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, formerly Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade, was founded in 1960. It was one of the first two undergraduate institutions established by the former Ministry of Foreign Trade, predecessor of the Ministry of Commerce; one of the first institutions nationally authorized to award bachelor’s degrees; and the Yangtze River Delta’s only distinctive university with a long-standing focus on foreign economic relations and trade. In 1994, it became the first university transferred from a national ministry to local government administration. In 2009, it was selected among the world’s first and China’s first World Trade Organization (WTO) Chairs. It adopted its current name in 2013. In 2019, it was approved as a WTO Asia-Pacific Training Center and became the WTO’s only regional training partner in mainland China.

After more than sixty years, it has developed a distinctive, strong and integrated undergraduate, master’s and doctoral talent training system, earning the name “the cradle of China’s international economic and trade professionals.”

It has Songjiang, Changning and Minhang campuses and more than 1500 faculty and staff, including nearly 500 teachers with senior professional titles. It has over 15000 students, including more than 10000 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5000 master’s and doctoral students.

It has 37 undergraduate programs, including 16 national first-class undergraduate program development sites, 18 national first-class undergraduate courses, and educational projects including Shanghai first-class undergraduate courses and Shanghai university first-class undergraduate development leadership projects.

It has first-level doctoral degree fields in Applied Economics and Statistics and a postdoctoral research station in Applied Economics. It has 8 first-level master’s degree fields, including Applied Economics and Business Administration, and 18 professional master’s degree categories, including Business Administration, International Business, Finance and Law.

It has BGA Gold accreditation from the UK’s Business Graduates Association. Programs including Finance and International Economics and Trade have international accreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). Tourism Management has UN Tourism TedQual Certification.

It has been selected by the Ministry of Education as a National University with Exemplary Innovation and Entrepreneurship Practices, an Innovative Practice Base for High-Level International Talent Training, a National Regular University Base for the Inheritance of Fine Traditional Chinese Culture, and an Innovative Base for Collaborative Foreign-Related Legal Talent Training under cultivation. It is also a Shanghai university education and training base for foreign-related legal talent.

It hosts Chinese Government Scholarship, Shanghai Municipal Government Scholarship for International Students, and International Chinese Language Teachers Scholarship recipients. It has nearly 300 international degree students and almost 200 short-term international students from nearly 50 countries.

It has partnerships with 168 overseas universities or international organizations in 48 countries and regions and operates two Confucius Institutes and one Confucius Classroom in Central and Eastern Europe. It jointly trains talent with renowned universities including the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Colorado State University and RMIT University in Australia.

Its unwavering goal is to become an internationally renowned, domestically first-class and distinctive high-level finance and economics university.

“The cradle of China’s international economic and trade professionals”—Shanghai University of International Business and Economics—warmly welcomes more outstanding international students to study here and create a bright future together!