Through the efforts of several generations, ECUPL has gradually developed into a multidisciplinary university of economics, management, finance, foreign languages, etc.

ECUPL has 22 majors for bachelors, i.e. law, economics reconnaissance study, finance, administration, English, Japanese, international business and trade, sociology, public security labour and social security, frontier defence management, politics and administration, journalism, public affairs administration, accounting and intellectual property, information science and technology, business administration, cultural industry management, Chinese literature, social work, among which the law major offers undergraduate programs intended for a second bachelor's degree in law.

[citation needed] In December 2013 the school attracted international headlines on news that lecturer Zhang Xuezhong had been expelled.

Prior to his dismissal Zhang had provided legal counsel to the New Citizens' Movement and, according to state-controlled media, expressed "political opinions that go against the law.

Every year, it selects and sends faculty members and students to sister universities for further study and research.

Also it encourages graduate and first-year postgraduate students to pursue the LLM degree in overseas universities.