Yunnan University of Finance and Economics was founded in 1951. After 74 years of passing on the torch and the efforts of several generations, it has developed into a university with a long history of running schools in border ethnic areas. It has 4 first-level discipline doctoral programs, 5 postdoctoral research stations, 12 first-level discipline master 's programs, 18 professional master' s programs, and 66 undergraduate programs, mainly economics and management. Law, literature, science, engineering, art and other disciplines develop in a coordinated manner, and it is a high-level teaching and research university with a distinct finance and economics feature.
The university adheres to the motto of "Learning and Practice, Virtue and Vision", upholds the school spirit of "Seeking truth and Innovation", insists on open education, actively serves and integrates into the national "Belt and Road Initiative", and recruits international students at the language, undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels from all countries. It is the unit approved by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to issue invitation letters for foreigners' visas to China and the unit exempted from verification. It has carried out educational exchanges and cooperation with more than 160 universities and institutions in over 30 countries and regions, including the United States, France and the United Kingdom. It was the first university in Yunnan Province to offer Sino-foreign cooperative education programs. Yunnan University of Finance and Economics Bangkok Business School, in collaboration with Rangsit University in Thailand, is one of the first overseas institutions approved by the Ministry of Education. It recruits students from Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries and offers academic education and business training. As a training base for international business officials of the Ministry of Commerce, it undertakes the Ministry of Commerce's assistance programs for academic degree education in developing countries and short-term training programs to cultivate government officials. We have long-term and short-term exchange student cooperation programs with universities or institutions in more than 40 countries, including France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Thailand and Myanmar. In 2025, the school successfully passed the Ministry of Education's higher education quality certification for international students in China. The university has produced more than 6,000 international students from 107 countries around the world, contributing outstanding Yuncai power to enhancing the university's international reputation and promoting cross-cultural understanding and common development.
