Founded in 1956, the Capital University of Economics and Business (CUEB) today is a leading university administered by Beijing Municipality. CUEB took its current form in 1995 when the Beijing College of Economics and the Beijing Institute of Finance & Trade merged into one. Over the past 68 years, CUEB has always upheld its motto to “advocate morality, value competence, strategize national development, and serve the people”, following the path of quality development with CUEB characteristics and specialties. Therefore, CUEB has grown into a Beijing Municipal high-level research university with program advantages in the subject areas of economics, management, law, literature, and science and engineering, of which economics and management are the core disciplines.

The main campus of CUEB, covering an area of 293,245 square meters, is in Huaxiang, Fengtai District, and concentrates on full-time undergraduate and graduate education, while the Hongmiao Campus in Chaoyang District, covering an area of 58,378 square meters, focuses on international and integrated vocational education.

The school Party committee has established 25 secondary Party organizations, including 17 secondary Party committees, 5 Party general branches, and 3 directly affiliated Party branches. There are 237 Party branches in CUEB, including 100 Party branches for in-service staff, 103 Party branches for students, and 34 Party branches for retired staff. Besides, there are 5,108 Party members in total, including 1,332 in-service staff, 3,039 students, and 760 retired staff.

CUEB sets up 20 faculties, including School of Urban Economics and Public Administration, College of Business Administration, School of Economics, School of Accounting, School of Labor Economics, School of Culture and Communication, School of Management and Engineering, School of Public Finance and Taxation, School of Law, School of Finance, School of Statistics, School of Foreign Studies, Overseas Chinese College, School of Marxism Studies, International School of Economics and Management, Sports Department, School of International Education, School of Continuing Education, School of Business, and School of Data Science. 

CUEB boasts 48 undergraduate programs, including 7 major admissions by general categories. Among them, 25 programs have been approved as first-class undergraduate disciplines at national level, 14 programs as first-class undergraduate disciplines at Municipal level in Beijing, and 4 disciplines, including accounting, finance, economics, and business administration, are recognized as key first-class disciplines at Municipal level in Beijing. Programs in economics, labor and social security, statistics and human resources management have been distinguished as “featured majors” at the national level. Of these, economics, statistics and labor and social security are designated as pilot programs for national comprehensive program reform. Numbers of courses and textbooks are ranked first-class at national and municipal levels: programs for Political Economics, Labor Economics and Social Security are recognized as excellent national curricula, with Political Economics and Social Security classified as excellent national open courses, Financial Accounting, International Economics, and International Business as national bilingual model courses. Into the World of Management is recognized as a national excellent video open course; Entrepreneurial Team Building and Management is certified as national-level massive online open course; Public Finance, Finance, Financial Management, Services Marketing, Bank Management of Financial Services, Education of Morality and Fundamentals of Law, Auditing, Microeconomics and Commercial Law are awarded as national-level first-class undergraduate courses; and Customer Relationship Management is granted national-level high-quality textbook award. A total of 21 courses are accredited as high-quality undergraduate courses among universities in Beijing, and 20 textbooks are accredited as high-quality undergraduate textbooks among universities in Beijing.

CUEB boasts 4 first-class disciplines that confer doctoral degrees and corresponding post-doctoral research programs, 11 first-class disciplines that confer master degrees, 18 programs that confer profession-oriented master degrees. The first-class disciplines of Applied Economics, Business Management, and Statistics are accredited as high-caliber disciplines in Beijing; Applied Economics and Business Management are supported by project of first-class discipline established by Beijing and central universities. Labor Economics, a second-class discipline of Applied Economics, is accredited as a national key discipline of the Exceptional Key Disciplines Project administered by the Ministry of Education. Applied Economics and Statistics are both key first-class disciplines in Beijing. Business Management and Accounting programs have been certified as key second-class disciplines in Beijing; Management Science & Engineering are key first-class development programs in Beijing; 7 programs including the Political Economy Department are certified as key second-class development disciplines in Beijing. Five disciplines are administered by the Ministry of Education as interdisciplinary disciplines, including Labor Relations, Economics Law, Media Management and Administration, Urban Economics and Strategic Management, and Big Data and Business Intelligence. The Economics & Management Experimental Teaching Center is rated as a national university experimental teaching center. The International Economics Professionals Education Experiment Zone is ranked as a national model innovation experiment zone for professional education. In School of Accounting, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited is approved as a national field project base for university students. CUEB is distinguished as a National Education Base for Ecological Civilization, and a member of the first batch of Innovation Practice Base for International Organization Professional Training. The “Reform and Practical Research on Upgrading the Economics Major in the Context of New Liberal Arts” is approved by the Ministry of Education as the first batch of new liberal arts reform and practice projects. Virtual Teaching and Research Office of Marketing is approved by the Ministry of Education as the first batch of pilot projects in virtual teaching and research office. 

Today, CUEB has 16,784 registered students, including 11,522 undergraduates, 4,482 graduates, 646 doctoral candidates, 91 international students and 43 continuing education students. Many indicators, including university admission scores, employment rate and starting annual salary of graduates, relevance to majors, employer satisfaction and career development are above the average level of universities in Beijing. CUEB has nurtured nearly 200,000 outstanding young personnel for Beijing and the country. Numerous alumni have made outstanding achievements in government, education, academia, finance, taxation, accounting, and other industries, as well as major enterprises and institutions. Nearly 80% of graduates work in local enterprises, becoming an important force serving the capital’s economic and social development.

CUEB currently has more than 1,800 faculty members, including more than 1,000 full-time teachers, among whom 199 are professors, and 395 are associate professors or equivalent. There are 172 doctoral student advisers and 500 master student advisers. Among the current faculty, there are 24 recipients of the Beijing Distinguished Teacher awards, winners of Advanced Individuals in the National Education System, National Distinguished Educators, and National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Workers, members of Changjiang Distinguished Scholars, National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, National Special Support Plan for High-level Talents, National Cultural Celebrities and “Four Batches of Talents” Award as well as Ideological and Cultural Young Talents Programs Organized by Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, Programs for New Century Excellent Talents in University of Ministry of Education of China, Beijing Young Scholars and University Research Innovation Development Action Plan in Beijing. Teaching teams for human resource management courses and economics courses are rated as Excellent National Teaching Teams. The Auditing course is recognized as an ideological and political demonstration course, while its teaching team is accredited as a national famous team with famous teachers by the Ministry of Education. In addition, other teaching teams including brilliant personnel in Finance, high-quality rule-of-law personnel in the new era, excellent personnel in business administration, innovative personnel in economics and marketing won Excellent Undergraduate Education Teams among universities in Beijing. Teams from College of Business Administration and School of Statistics are accredited as high-level innovative education team during the 14th Five Year Plan period at Beijing Municipal level. In 2006, the university initiated a teacher career development program and established the CUEB Office of Teacher Advancement (OTA), one of few programs in this category in China. CUEB’s OTA is a teacher-governed organization dedicated to teacher career planning and advancement.

In recent years, as CUEB has undertaken a greater number of national projects, the remarkable research achievements have kept emerging, and its capability to serve the national and capital development is growing. CUEB boasts 6 national and provincial research institutions, including the Collaborative Innovation Center for Economic and Social Development Research in Megacities, Innovation Center for Philosophy and Social Science among Beijing Universities: the Construction and Innovation Center for the ‘Two Zones’ (comprising an integrated demonstration zone for further opening up the national service sector and a pilot free trade zone ), Beijing Key Laboratory of Megaregions Sustainable Development Simulation, the Research Base of Central Business District Development, Beijing Urban Economic and Social Development Policy Research Center and National Tax Law Research Base. Among them, the Academy of Metropolis Economic and Social Development has been selected as the first batch of high-level think-tank construction pilot institutions. CUEB publishes 4 kinds of journals on a regular basis: Research on Economics and Management, Population and Economics, Journal of Capital University of Economics and Business, and Contemporary Manager, of which the first three are selected as CSSCI source journals, AMI Comprehensive Evaluation Report of Chinese Journals of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Core Journals of China. Research on Economics and Management is also selected as one of the Federation of Management Societies of China and the Highest International Impact Academic Journal of China. Population and Economics is one of the earliest demographic journals in China, and has been selected as one of the National High-quality Social Science Journals and the Excellent International Impact Academic Journal of China.

CUEB has strong cooperative ties with 180 universities and research institutes in 38 countries and regions. It has been designated as an innovative training base for high-level international personnel and the Youth Global Competence Excelling Program. Furthermore, it has established a cooperative education program with the University of Arizona in the United States for Statistics (4+0), alongside establishing an innovation base for financial technology and financial econometrics. It has also formed a multi-level and multi-disciplinary education system catering to international students, focusing on Economics and Management as its key disciplines. Since 1986, it has trained over 20,000 international students from more than 90 countries and regions worldwide. 

Following the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, CUEB will continue to further implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress and the 13th CPC Beijing Municipal Congress. CUEB will fully implement the Party’s educational policy the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education and contribute to the Chinese modernization and the development of the Capital in the new era. CUEB is committed to pursuing high-quality development through reform and innovation, making great strides towards its vision of building a top-tier, globally recognized research university of finance and economics with distinctive features.

(Data statistics as of December 31, 2023)