Jointly built by the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education and the Shandong Provincial Government, Shandong University of Finance and Economics (SDUFE) is situated in Jinan - a nationally famous, historic and cultural city, enjoying a good reputation as the “Spring City.” SDUFE IS a university of finance and economics with a long history. It is a large-scale university with distinctive administrative characteristics. It mainly focuses on economics and management. It includes the other six disciplines: literature, law, science, engineering, education and art. It has a high reputation and is popular both at home and abroad.

Covering a total area of more than 4000 mu, SDUFE has four campuses in Jinan, including Yanshan Campus, Shungeng Campus, Shengjing Campus, and Laiwu Campus. Currently, as a university of finance and economics with the largest scale of schooling in China, SDUFE has more than 33,000 full-time undergraduates and postgraduates. There are 24 teaching institutes (departments) and 60 undergraduate specialties. It has four first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization centers in applied economics, business administration, management science and engineering, and statistics, and ten first-level discipline master degree authorization centers and 15 master’s degree categories, such as MBA, MPA, etc. It has three first-class disciplines in Shandong Province, including applied economics, management science and engineering, and business administration under project construction. On December 28, 2017, the Degree and Postgraduate Education Development Center of the Ministry of Education announced the results of the fourth round of subject evaluation, in which two first-level disciplines - applied economics and business administration - were B+ and two first-level disciplines - management science and engineering and public administration - were B-, making SDUFE one of the three universities in Shandong Province with more than two B+ disciplines and the only provincial-owned university with B or above in economic management disciplines in Shandong Province. With its overall disciplinary strength, it has entered the top ten universities of finance and economics in China.

In 1998, Shandong University of Finance and Economics and Armstrong University from the United States established the 'Shanzhung' Program, which allows two school jointly training MBA graduates in China. In 2003, the school was granted the right to confer professional MBA degrees. It is the fifth group of MBA schools approved by the Ministry of Education and the first MBA program in Shandong province.

Situated in the hometown of Confucius and Mencius, the school of MBA has the opportunity to take advantage of traditional discipline of economics and the ancient's wisdom in the art of management. Based on the development strategy of "Internationalization, Localization and Distinction", School of MBA has been helping students grow up to successful business talents with global vision, awareness of innovation, humanity and its corresponding social responsibility.

In the past 20 years, School of MBA has trained more than 4,000 outstanding business talents for both public and private sectors. Outstanding alumni in various industries of Shandong province and all over the country have made remarkable achievements. They won a lot of social honor by making contributions to promote the development of economy.