The University of foreign economic relations and trade is a national key university directly under the Ministry of education of the people's Republic of China. It is a national "double first-class" world-class discipline construction university, "211 Project", and a University jointly built by the Ministry of education and the Ministry of Commerce. It has been selected into the "2011 plan", the education and training plan for outstanding legal talents, the public postgraduate program of national construction of high-level universities, and the National College Students' innovation and entrepreneurship training It is the first batch of universities in Beijing to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, the "education strategy and planning research center of the Ministry of education" and the "virtual college of the United Nations Conference on Trade and development".The school, formerly known as the senior business cadre school, was founded in 1951. In 1953, it was renamed Beijing Foreign Trade College. In 1954, the Department of foreign trade of Renmin University of China merged into Beijing Foreign Trade College and established Beijing Institute of foreign trade. In 1984, it was renamed University of international business and economics. In June 2000, the former China University of Finance and the former University of international business and economics merged to establish a new University of international business and economics, which was under the management of the Ministry of education. 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.As of September 2018, the school covers an area of 342035 square meters and the school building area is 456766.55 square meters. As of March 1, 2019, the university has more than 1600 teaching staff, including more than 1000 full-time teachers; more than 16000 students, including more than 8300 undergraduates, more than 5200 postgraduates, and more than 2400 international students; it has 18 colleges and sports department; it has more than 130 research units; it has 2 national key disciplines and 7 Beijing key disciplines; it has a large number of talents There are 4 post doctoral research mobile stations, 7 first-class discipline doctoral programs, 23 second-class discipline doctoral programs, 10 first-class discipline master programs, 43 second-class discipline master programs, 12 professional master degree authorization categories, and 46 undergraduate programs.