Founded in 1913 as the Academy of Higher-level Commercial and Industrial Studies (Academia de Înalte Studii Comerciale și Industriale (AISCI)),[3] it has become one of the largest economic higher education institutes in both Romania and South-Eastern Europe.

[3] The Bucharest University of Economic Studies has 22,684 students (undergraduate and graduate levels) in eleven faculties.

A notable presence inside ASE is the Business Information Technology department (Romanian: Informatică Economică) which is an entity that promotes an educational philosophy based on combining economics and software development as a way of creating experts suitable for the Information Age.

Since 2005 however, the university has adopted the Bologna declaration and undergraduate studies are now three-year long, followed by 2-year Master programmes.

[6] Top Shanghai 2018 ranked ASE as the best university in Economics in Romania and 201–300 worldwide.