[2] The university emphasizes the disciplines of economics, management, law, literature, philosophy, science, engineering, pedagogy and art.

In 1996, the institute was officially renamed as Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) under the direct leadership of the Ministry of Education.

[3][4] In 1999, the Communist Party former general secretary, Jiang Zemin, gave CUFE his autograph to celebrate the 50th birthday of the university.

[5] In the recent three years (2015–2017), the newly hired faculty members of CUFE are mainly graduated from world-renowned universities.

[9] Currently there are 16,258 students registered at Central University of Finance and Economics, including 10,123 undergraduates, 5,358 masters, 777 PhD candidates.

[10] CUFE has trained more than 125,000 experts in economics and management who have made, and continue to make, significant contributions to the development of China.

Started in 2006, asked to help the China's Central Government, CUFE has trained thousands of senior administration officials from 91 developing countries.