Guangdong University of Finance is a full-time higher education institution, which has grown out of the Banking School founded in 1950 under the administrationof the South-China Branch of the People's Bank of China.

The University now has 11958 full-time students and 925 staff members among whom 690 are teaching staff including 55 professors, 167 associate professors and 328 lecturers. Among them 351 teachers possess a masters degree and above: 48 doctors and 303 masters, and in addition, there are some scholars from outside the school and specialists in the field of finance who have been being invited as guests or honored professors.

The University is divided into two campuses: Main campus (Longdong Campus) and Zhaoqing Campus, occupying an area of 998 mu (ha.) in total with the construction area of 0.29 million sq. m.. The University's location and environment are beautiful and fully-equipped with facilities for both teaching and life, such as a computer network center, sound labs, multi-media classrooms, electronic reading-rooms, a library with 1.21 million paper books and 0.15 million electronic books and 2,167 magazines and periodicals, as well as a simulated bank, a simulated stock exchange and some special labs of Finance, International Trade, Electronic, Financial Accounting, Insurance, Industrial and Commercial Management, Business English and a Financial Museum of Currencies, the richest collection in South China.

The University has set up 12 teaching departments of Finance, Accounting, Insurance, Economic Trade, Industrial and Commercial Management, Computer Science and Technology, Law, Foreign Languages, Social Science and Basic Courses with 41 majors or orientations such as Finance, International Finance, Securities Investment, Insurance, registered Accountants, Accounting and Auditing, Computer Accounting, International Accounting, Financial Affairs Management, Computer Application, Network Projects, Economical Information Management, Electronic Business, Secretary in Economy, International trade, Economics, Economic law, International Economy and Law, Industrial and Commercial Management, Human resources Management, Marketing, Business English, and Administration Management, etc, of which Insurance is a state-level demonstration major for senior vocational or training schools; Finance is a province-level demonstration major and a key major of the Headquarters of the People's Bank of China. The first group of undergraduate majors includes Finance, Insurance, Accounting, Financial Affairs Management, Economy and Trade and Marketing.

The University has increasingly strengthened international exchanges and co-operations. In May, 2002, the winner of the Nobel in Economy in 1999, Prof. Robert Mundell, the Father of the Euro, came to visit the University and was invited to become an Honored Professor of the University; The American SIGNA set up its sole LOMA Test Center in the University and some foreign higher education institutions, such as Gray Harbor College, U.S.A., London Metropolitan University, U.K. and Cobenhagan Business School, Denmark have respectively built up educational co-operation relationships with the University. Aviva, Winterthur, AXA and Sun Wah LINUX have founded premium programs for excellent teaching and learning in the University.

The University has, apart from general full-time education tasks, undertaken adult's formal schooling education in the forms of correspondence, TV University and network education for undergraduate and non-undergraduate credentials, as well as short- term personnel training in its training centers like Guangzhou Senior Financial Personnel, Financial English, Computing, Financial Law and Regulations and Self-study Tuition. As a result the University is defined as a province-level base for continuous education in the field of finance by the Personnel Bureau of Guangdong Province Government.