Thanks to the pioneering efforts for generations, SUFE has developed into a multidisciplinary university that focuses on economics and management, maintains a coordinated development of economics, management, law, humanities, and sciences. The university is widely recognized as a source of numerous financial and economic talents who contribute to China’s economic and social development. Among school of higher learning on finance and economics, SUFE was the first to confer doctorate degrees (in 1981), and also one of the first university to set up post-doctorate mobile station on social sciences (economics). In 1996, SUFE was listed as one of China`s “211 Project” key universities. In 2000, the jurisdiction of the university was transferred from Ministry of Finance to the Ministry of Education, and it successfully passed the evaluation procedures by the Ministry of Education for excellent undergraduate teaching. In 2007, SUFE entered the list of top-ranking university on the state level.