History
The school was formerly known as the Senior Business Cadre School and was founded in 1951. In 1953, it was renamed Beijing Foreign Trade College. In 1954, the foreign trade major of the Department of Trade of Renmin University of China was merged into the Beijing College of Foreign Trade and the Beijing College of Foreign Trade was established. In 1984, it was renamed the University of International Business and Economics. In December 2010, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Commerce signed an agreement to jointly build the University of International Business and Economics. The Israel campus closed in 2024 amid the Gaza conflict and deteriorating China–Israel relations, after Chinese faculty were unable to travel and enrollments were halted. ==Schools and departments==
Schools and departments
The university is organized into a number of schools and research institutes covering fields such as international trade, finance, business administration, law, languages, public administration, and information technology. The School of International Trade and Economics is one of the university's main academic units and focuses on teaching and research in international trade, international finance, and related disciplines. The school includes seven departments and ten research centers. The China School of Banking and Finance was established in 2001 through the merger of the university's School of Banking and Finance with the former China Institution of Finance, which had been affiliated with the People's Bank of China. The school offers undergraduate, master's, and doctoral programs in finance and related fields and enrolls about 1,500 students, including undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students, as well as international and part-time graduate students. The School of Business was established in 1982 as the Department of International Business Management and is one of the larger schools at the university. Its programs cover areas including accounting, finance, marketing, management, and human resource management, and some courses are taught in English using teaching materials from the United States. As of May 2014, the school was a member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS). The School of Law, founded in 1984, focuses on legal education and research, particularly in international law, and includes a state-approved key discipline in that field. The School of Foreign Studies traces its origins to the second department of the Beijing Foreign Trade College established in 1954. It includes departments teaching several foreign languages, including Arabic, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Russian, and Vietnamese, as well as the Sino-Italian Language Training Centre. The school has produced approximately 1,000 undergraduate and 100 postgraduate graduates. Its alumni include Shi Guangsheng, a former Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation; Song Hai, a vice governor of Guangdong Province; Cao Weizhou, a deputy secretary-general of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress; and Guo Li, a deputy director of the Hong Kong Liaison Office of China. The School of International Education is responsible for recruiting and supporting international students enrolled in degree and non-degree programs at the university and provides language training programs such as Chinese language and Business Chinese courses. According to university information, more than 3,100 international students from 126 countries and regions study at the university, including students enrolled in degree programs as well as Chinese language and other non-degree programs. Other academic units at the university include the School of Information Technology and Management Engineering, the Research Institute for Global Value Chains, the School of Public Administration, the School of Insurance and Economics, the School of Chinese Language and Literature, the Sino-French International Management School, Zhuoyue International School, the China Institute for WTO Studies, the Institute of International Economics, the School of Distance Education, and the School of Executive Development. ==Rankings and reputation==
Rankings and reputation
In the Shanghai Ranking, UIBE ranks third among finance and economics universities in China, with its Applied Economics program also placed third nationwide, behind only Peking University and Renmin University of China. UIBE ranks 41th globally in the U.S. News "Best Global Universities for Economics and Business." It is ranked 78th in the QS International Trade Rankings 2026 for MBA and Master's programs, and 169th in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025 for Economics & Econometrics. ==Campus==