Lanzhou University of Finance and Economics specializes in accounting, financial management, auditing, asset valuation, finance, financial engineering, insurance, credit management, Internet finance, economics and statistics, investment, statistics, applied statistics, data science and big data technology, management science and other majors.

Lanzhou University of Finance and Economics, referred to as "Lanzhou University of Finance and Economics", is located in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, by the Central University of Finance and Economics, University of International Business and Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences University of counterpart support, is the national central and western universities of the basic ability to build the project construction of colleges and universities, and the deepening of the innovation of the country. The university is a model university for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform.

The school began in 1952 with the establishment of the Administrative Cadre School of the People's Government of Gansu Province; in 1958, it was upgraded to the Gansu Institute of Finance and Economics, which is under the leadership of the People's Government of Gansu Province and carries out undergraduate education; in 1981, it was established as Lanzhou University of Business, which is successively under the leadership of the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China, the Ministry of Domestic Trade of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China.

As of June 2023, the school has three campuses, namely, Heping, Duanjiatan and Donggang, covering an area of more than 1,700 acres, with a building area of more than 730,000 square meters, a total value of 114,589,700 yuan of teaching, scientific and research instruments and equipments, and a collection of 2,440,000 volumes of paper books and 7,720,000 volumes of e-books; it has 19 teaching units and 66 undergraduate majors.

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As of June 2023, the university has more than 1,700 teaching staff, including nearly 1,300 full-time teachers, more than 600 teachers with the titles of professors and associate professors, and more than 1,000 teachers with doctoral and master's degrees, and among the full-time teachers, there are experts enjoying the State Council's governmental special allowances, provincial and ministerial level outstanding experts.

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