The University of International Business and Economics (UIBE; abbr. 贸大, ''Mào Dà''), is a

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specialized in undergraduate and graduate education in

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international business International business refers to the trade of goods, services, technology, capital and/or knowledge across national borders and at a global or transnational scale. It involves cross-border transactions of goods and services between two or more ...

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and

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. Established in 1951 in

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by China's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, it is one of the elite Chinese universities and one of the most competitive and selective universities to enter for undergraduate education in China. The University of International Business and Economics is a first-tier public research institution within the

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, the former

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, and the former

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and thus receives special support and endorsement from the

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. UIBE is widely considered to be the leading Chinese university of economics,

, international business, and foreign languages. As of 2020, it ranked no.3 among universities specialized in finance, business, and economics in the recent edition of the widely recognized

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. In 2015, UIBE had 12,760 students enrolled from China and 3,334 international students from 148 countries and regions. It receives direct dual administration from the

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and the

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. UIBE is ranked 101-200th in WURI Global Top 100 Innovative Universities Ranking 2021.

History

The university was founded in 1951 as the Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade. It provided education and training for government officials responsible for China’s economic and international business administration under the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and Ministry of Education. It was first designated as a key university by the Chinese government as early as 1960 for its outstanding academic programs, and then designated as a national key university in 1978 after suspension in the

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. Following the onset of

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under

Deng Xiaoping Deng Xiaoping (22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese revolutionary leader, military commander and statesman who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from December 1978 to November 1989. After CC ...

, UIBE witnessed unprecedented development and expansion, and in 1984 was renamed the current name, University of International Business and Economics. In May 1997 UIBE was put on the list of "

" universities of the first batch. In the year of 2000, UIBE has become one of the

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under the leadership of the Ministry of Education, and in June of the same year it merged with

China Institute of Finance The China Institute of Finance was a Chinese university specializing in business and finance. In 1999, it was ranked below 235 in a ranking of China's universities. The Institute merged with the University of International Business and Economics ( ...

, from then on, it has become one of the leaders not only in the studies of economics,

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and law, but also in finance. UIBE is included in the state

, a program designed by the Chinese central government aimed at turning about 147

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into exceptionally world-class academic institutions by 2050.

Faculty

The university offer a range of courses in

international trade International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories because there is a need or want of goods or services. (see: World economy) In most countries, such trade represents a significant ...

commercial law Commercial law, also known as mercantile law or trade law, is the body of law that applies to the rights, relations, and conduct of persons and business engaged in commerce, merchandising, trade, and sales. It is often considered to be a branc ...

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s and related fields. The university has traditionally had a reputation as a training ground for top

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in the Ministry of Commerce (previously known as ''Ministry of Foreign Trade'', ''Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade'' and ''Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation'') under the government of the People's Republic of China. Until 1989, graduates went to work either for the Ministry or the many state-owned import/export companies throughout the country. UIBE is the home of The Beijing Center, a program for mainly American students studying in China who reside at UIBE and take

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courses, as well as other courses taught in English, by a vast array of professors from

's top universities.

Academic rankings and reputation

As of 2020, it ranked no.3 among universities specialized in finance, business, and economics in the recent edition of the widely recognized

. The institution is typically on first or second place in the fields of economics, finance, and international business in a ranking among 300 Chinese universities. In 2010 Forbes China ranked 45 Chinese business schools, many of them part of the country's top universities receiving substantial governmental support, according to salary performance and return on investment of graduates of their

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and

Executive MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...

programs. UIBE's EMBA program reached rank 10, while its full-time MBA program rounded out the top 15. In a similar rating of part-time MBA programs conducted by the magazine in 2012, UIBE reached rank 13. In the 2022

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(ARWU) by Subjects, UIBE ranked in the global top # 101 in "Finance", the global top #151 in "Business Administration" & " Economics" and the global top # 201 in "Management".

Entry standards ranking

UIBE is one of the most competitive and selective universities to enter for undergraduate education in China after students passed the

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. In 2013 the institution ranked 14th both in comprehensive measurement and for admission into

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study programs, and 8th for

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(which in China traditionally include economics-related subjects), according to the Center for Higher Education Studies of

Renmin University of China The Renmin University of China (RUC; ) is a national key public research university in Beijing, China. The university is affiliated to the Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry and the Beijing Municipal People's Government. RUC ...

Schools and departments

School of International Trade and Economics *Department of International Trade *Department of Finance *Department of Economics *Department of Transportation and Logistics *Department of Political Economy *Department of International Economic Cooperation *Department of Mathematical and Quantitative Economics The School of International Trade and Economics is one of China's leading centers for the study and research of international trade and finance. The School is an established, research-intensive institution including seven departments and ten research centers. School of Banking and Finance *Department of Banking *Department of Financial Engineering *Department of Investment In 2001, the School of Banking and Finance in UIBE merged with the former China Institution of Finance which was widely known as the undergraduate school of the Peoples' Bank of China and received endorsement from the Chinese central government. Currently, about 1500 students are studying in SBF, with 950 being undergraduates, 179 graduates, and 33 doctoral graduates, including more than 100 foreign students. The school also has roughly 300 graduate students, specialized in finance, studying as part-time students. School of Business *Department of International Business Administration *Department of Accounting *Department of Corporate Finance *Department of Human Resources Management *Department of Marketing *Department of Statistics The Business School at the University of International Business Economics (hereafter UIBEBS) was established in 1982 as Department of International Business Management. It is now the second largest among 16 schools on the campus in terms of enrollment and faculty team. Teaching and research at UIBEBS covers virtually all facets of business management with programmes in accounting, finance, marketing, business management and human resource management. UIBEBS uses textbooks and teaching materials from the United States in courses taught in English. The business school is currently s of May 2014a member of the

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(AACSB) as well as

European Quality Improvement System The EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) is an international school accreditation system. It specializes in higher education institutions of management and business administration, run by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD ...

(EQUIS). By the end of 2013, UIBEBS has 87 full-time and 31 part-time faculties, 2499 full-time and 1060 part-time students. Of the total number, 597 are international students.

School of Law A law school (also known as a law centre or college of law) is an institution specializing in legal education, usually involved as part of a process for becoming a lawyer within a given jurisdiction. Law degrees Argentina In Argentina, ...

*Department of International Law *Department of Civil Law *Department of Economic Law Founded in 1984, the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) School of Law features a State-approved key discipline of international law and has around 50 full-time faculty members. Half of the full-time faculty have served as arbitrators of various domestic and foreign arbitration institutions. In 2010, UIBE ranks second in China’s National Higher Education Institution Rankings by Employment Rate. The university has enrolled many foreign students. School of Foreign Studies *Department of Arabian *Department of Korean *Department of German *Department of Russian *Department of Japanese *Department of French *Department of Italian *Department of Spanish *Department of Vietnamese *Department of Portuguese *Department of Persian *Department of Modern Greek The School of Foreign Studies (SFS), originally the second Department of the Beijing Foreign Trade College founded in 1954, is composed of eight departments and one centre, namely, Departments of Arabic, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Russian, and Vietnamese, as well as the Sino-Italian Language Training Centre. In its history of half a century, there appeared many known scholars and professors: Chen Tao, Song Wenjun, Shen Daming, Zhang Xiongwu, Zhao Run, Jiang Xindao, Xiao Tianyou, among others. Up till now, the school has produced about 1,000 undergraduates and 100 post graduates. Prominent among them: Shi Guangsheng as the ex-minister of Foreign Trades, Song Hai, now the vice provincial governor of Guangdong Province, Cao Weizhou, the deputy Secretary-General of the National Standing Committee of People’s Congress of China, Guo Li, the deputy director of the Hong Kong Liaison Office of China. The eight departments of the School are all members and/or standing members of their separate National Teaching Associations and Literature Societies. The faculty consists of 21 full professors and 33 associate professors. Among them, 34 are graduate supervisors, 21 have obtained PhD degrees. The SFS also employs some foreign teachers. There are 700 undergraduate and 100 postgraduate students enrolled. The school has exchange programs with 20 overseas universities. School of International Studies *Department of English Linguistics and Literature *Department of Business English *Department of Translation and Interpretation *Department of General English School of International Education (SIE) of UIBE is engaged in recruiting international students for UIBE’s degree and non-degree study programs, and provides related services. SIE offers language training programs, including the Chinese Language and Business Chinese at different levels, and Advance Studies on Chinese Economy and Culture. Currently, there are more than 3,100 foreign students from 126 countries and regions studying at the University of International Business and Economics. Over 2,300 of them are taking degree courses and over 800 students are taking Chinese language courses and non-degree courses. School of International Education has Dean's Office, Admissions Office, Office for Degree Education, Office for Non-Degree Education, Department of Students' Affairs, Department of Teaching and Service Center. School of Information Technology and Management Engineering *Department of Information Management *Department of Electronic Business *Department of Computer Software Application School of International Relations *Department of Political Science *Department of International Politics *Department of International Political Economy *Department of Diplomacy Research Institute for Global Value Chains School of Public Administration School of Insurance and Economics School of Chinese and Literature Sino-French International Management School Zhuoyue International School China Institute for WTO Studies Institute of International Economics School of Distance Education School of Executive Development

Campus

Buildings

The campus has been nicknamed "Hui Garden" (). Seven buildings are either dormitories or classroom buildings. There is a major academic building at the northwest of the site, which used to belong to the China Institute of Finance, named Boxue (). Another modern teaching building is located in the southeastern corner, named Ningyuan (). There is also an imposing structure in the middle of the campus, named Chengxin (). A new library building was opened in October 2008. Apart from the sports areas, there is a Chinese garden (south side), a bird cage, and a pond dubbed the "Back Sea" (see

Houhai Houhai ( 'Rear Lake') is a lake and its surrounding neighborhood in Xicheng District of central Beijing, China. Houhai is the largest of the three lakes, along with Qianhai 'Front Lake' and Xihai 'Western Lake', that comprise Shichahai, the co ...

) by students. The University recently hired a foreign branding expert – Alexander Goldsborough – as Director of International Marketing and Communications, to revisit the brand image of the University.

Israel campus

In August 2021 UIBE opened a new campus in Petah Tikvah in Israel, in a ceremony that was attended by UIBE's Party Chief Jiang Qingzhe, UIBE's President Xia Wenbin, Israeli Ambassador to China

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and Petah Tikva's Mayor Rami Greenberg.

Notable Figures

Alumni

Dou Jianzhong
() – Executive Director and Chairman,

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(中信股份)
Gao Xiaoli
() – Judge (2022-2026) of

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, and Chief Judge of 4th Civil Division, Supreme Court of China(最高人民法院) * Gao Xiqing () – CEO of

China Investment Corporation China Investment Corporation (CIC) (Chinese: 中国投资有限责任公司; pinyin: ''zhōngguó tóuzī yǒuxiàn zérèn gōngsī'') is a sovereign wealth fund that manages part of the People's Republic of China's foreign exchange reserves. C ...

, one of the largest SWFs in the World, former vice President of National Social Security Fund (NSSF), former Vice President of China Securities Regulatory Commission(CSRC) *

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() – CEO of

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(China
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() –

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and former

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*Gu Yongjiang () – Former Chairman of

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He Weiwen
() – Senior Fellow o

and Vice Chairman o
Global Alliance of SMEsHong Hao
() – Managing Director and Head of Research a
BOCOM International
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(Sydney, New York) and at

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(New York, London), named as the “Most Accurate Strategist in China” by Bloomberg.
Huang Tao
() – Senior Partner and the Managing Partner of the Dispute Resolution Group of

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*Jiang Wei () – Former

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* Jiao Jinhong () – Chief Legal Counsel of the China Securities Regulatory Commission(证监会)
Li Jinyan
() – Interim Dean (2009-2010), Full Professor,

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, Canada *Li Shu() – Partner at the

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* Li Xiang () – Chinese actress, host and singer * Lin (Kevin) Chaolun () –Lead Interpreter (Chinese) of the

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of the

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* Lin Jianhai () – first-ever Secretary of

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(IMF) from China
Liu Guixiang
() –Grand Justice of the second rank, and Judicial Committee Member of Supreme Court of China(最高人民法院) * Liu Jinbao() –Former CEO of

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* Lu Xiaoqiang () – Managing Director of

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AG, former Director of

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Group and the

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* Qi Huanwu () – the former Ambassador of

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* Qian Feng () – Deputy Minister of Ministry of Veterans Affairs（退伍军人事务部） and Former Deputy Director of

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（国务院法制办）,

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* Qiu Zhongqiang () – Global Vice President & Asia Senior Vice President of

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(P&G) * Weijian Shan () – CEO of PAG Group, former professor at

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of the

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, former Managing Director of

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, former Partner at

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() – former Minister of China Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation * Sun Yonghong () – Managing Director of

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AG, former Executive Director of

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AG *Sun Zhenyu () – Ambassador and Permanent Representative of China to the WTO from 2002 to 2010 * Wang Guiying () – Deputy Governor of

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* Wang Jinlong () – President of

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AP, Senior Vice President of

International *Wang Shouwen() – Vice Minister of the

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, Deputy China International Trade Representative
Wang Lingjun
) – Vice Minister and Deputy Customs Commissioner-General,of the General Administration of Customs of China (海关总署) *

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() – former Chairman at

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, former Chairman at

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* Wu Weijun () – the first man in

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who obtained the membership of ACCA, and also a

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China Vice Chairman *Jing Zhang() – MD, China Chief Legal Counsel of

Yang Fuchang
() – former Vice Minister,

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, and former President of

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( 外交学院)
Yang Jingyu
() – former Chair of Law Committee of National People's Congress, China( 全国人大法律委员会) and former Director of

（国务院法制办),

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() – Chinese actress, winner of

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at the

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*Yu Xubao () – Chairman of COFCO * Windy Yuan () – a successful entrepreneur and a community activist in Canada, now the

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and

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of Bradley Pacific Enterprises * Zhang Jixun () – Professor at Japan

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*Zhang Libin () – Partner of

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Zhang Liping
() – Chairman, Greater China of Blackstone
Zhang Yi
() –Chairman of China Management Committee,

*Zhang Zhiwei () – Chief China Economist at

Zhao Zhongxiu
() – President of UIBE (since Jan.2023), former President of Shandong University of Finance and Economics * Zhou Keren () – Former Vice Minister of

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* Zhou Wenzhong () – Former Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the United States of America from 2005 to 2010

Professor

* Ba Shusong * Fred Engst *Shi Jingxia *Wang Linsheng *Xue Rongjiu

Foreign students

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(South Korea). Students from the

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, (North Korea), however, despite that country's proximity to China, are very rare. Recently, there has been an influx of

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(

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, France, Germany, Italy) and

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n students. Japanese,

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ese and

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students also account for a sizable proportion of foreign students. Since 1998, the UIBE and

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have created a Franco-Chinese undergraduate program CESEM. It also has an exchange agreement for

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students with the

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. Other dual diplomas partners are Paris-based business school ESCE and

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. UIBE is one of the first universities in China to launch an international student program taught entirely in English. This program has become very popular among foreign students both in China and outside.