central university of finance and economics has been regarded as the best university in finance, economics, business and management of china, which is known as "the cradle of giants in the fields of finance and management". "in the report of chinese universities and courses evaluation" of 2017–2018 (released by research center for china science evaluation), central university of finance and economics was ranked no.1 among 67 finance and economics universities in mainland china. according to "2018 china college rankings by salary", the average salaries of cufe graduates is ranked no.9 in china. in the assessments of ministry of education, the applied economics of cufe is ranked as no. 1 in china, accompanying with the peking university and the renmin university of china.