The dormitories of Yunnan University of Finance and Economics do not have air conditioning.

Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, located in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, is a high-level multi-disciplinary financial and economics university focusing on economics and management, with coordinated development of law, literature, science, engineering, art and other disciplines. A teaching and research university, it is a key university in Yunnan Province, a high-level university in Yunnan Province, a national demonstration university for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, and a university that accepts international students studying in China under the Chinese Government Scholarship. The current party committee secretary Wang Jianying and principal Wang Min. The school motto is "Study diligently and practice diligently, be virtuous and achieve great goals".

As of December 2021, the school has two campuses, Longquan Road Campus and Anning Campus, covering an area of ??2,133 acres. The school has 18 colleges, 1 teaching department, and 14 research institutions; it has 4 first-level discipline doctoral programs and postdoctoral mobile stations: applied economics, theoretical economics, business administration, and statistics; and 12 first-level master's degree programs. , 17 professional master's degree programs and 63 undergraduate majors; 16 national-level first-class undergraduate major construction sites and 4 national-level specialty majors; 13 provincial-level first-class undergraduate major construction sites and 5 provincial-level specialty majors. The school has 2,123 faculty and staff.

The predecessor of Yunnan University of Finance and Economics was the Yunnan Provincial Financial Cadre School founded in 1951; in 1979, it opened a finance and trade college class to recruit college students; in 1981, it established Yunnan University of Finance and Economics and began full-time undergraduate education; in 1998 Merged with Yunnan Economic and Management Cadre College; in 1995, it was designated as a provincial key university by the Yunnan Provincial Government; in 2006, it was renamed Yunnan University of Finance and Economics.