Guangdong University of Business Studies (GUBS) was established in 1983. As one of the key institutions of higher learning in Guangdong Province, GUBS offers both undergraduate and graduate programs in economics, management, law, English and Chinese literature, science and engineering which confer Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree, in addition to a second bachelor’s degree for law students. GUBS has over 17,228 full-time students (including postgraduates and overseas Chinese students and those from Hongkong, Macao and Taiwan). And it comprises 2 campuses. The Guangzhou Campus is located in the southeast of the city in the close vicinity of Guangzhou International Convention and Exhibition Center, and the Sanshui Campus is situated at the Yundonghai Tourist Economic Zone in Sanshui, Foshan. Moreover, the university and Zengcheng Sun City Ltd. in Guangzhou have run an undergraduate independent College---Huashang College.

GUBS has established fourteen schools and departments offering sixteen master-degree programs and 36 undergraduate specialties. Most specialties are in dire need after China’s entry into WTO, among which constitution & administration law and enterprise management are of provincial priority specialties，and marketing, law, accounting，information management & information systems，Finance, International Economics & Trade, Public Finance are classified as provincial brand specialties. GUBS owns several priority laboratories including the Guangdong Laboratory of E-commerce Marketing Applied Technology, which is ranked as the priority laboratory by the province and two other priority laboratories, i.e. Economy & Management Laboratory and the Experimental Center of Enterprise Resource Planning (which are ranked as priority laboratories by the Educational Department of Guangdong Province (the former one is the first major laboratory of liberal arts among institutions of higher learning of Guangdong Province). GUBS also owns the Research Center of Law Build-up & Economic Development (one of the key research bases of humanities and social science in the provincial institutions of higher learning), and the Journal of Guangdong University of Business Studies, one of the excellent journals on social science in China.

GUBS is active in international exchanges and cooperation. By means of joint research projects and joint-effort programs, it has successively established long-term, stable partnership relations with more than 20 institutions of higher learning in the USA, Britain, France, Japan, Singapore, Australia and Vietnam as well as in Hong Kong and Macao. At present, GUBS has been undertaking a five-year “4+1” bachelor-master degree program with the University of Greenwich and Thames Valley University in Britain., and a four-year “1+2+1” double bachelor’s degree program with University of North Arizona, Troy University and University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Menlo College in the United States.