As a public university, GDUF is one of the top 3 Chinese financial institutions, specializing in finance, accounting, insurance and trading. It has cultivated more than 160,000 professionals in the fields of economy and finance, which makes GDUF "cradle of professionals in finance and economics". It is widely known for the Monetary and Finance Museum, which is the largest of its kind in China, with a collection of 35,000 articles of world currency at various times. The library includes over two million printed books, over one million e-books and thousands of original edition academic journals. Besides, GDUF has as many as 50 specialist laboratories and language teaching centers.

The total number of full-time students (undergraduates and post-graduates) has exceeded 22,000. We have 944 full-time teachers, including 379 professors and associate professors, and 224 doctoral degree holders, with a large number of scholars from the educational, business and political circles engaged.

GDUF, consisting of 4 colleges and 14 departments, provides 38 undergraduate majors, 45 finance-related major orientations, covering 6 discipline categories, namely Economics, Management, Law, Liberal Arts, Science and Engineering. Finance in our university is the state-level specialty and a key discipline in Guangdong Province, with the other 4 disciplines, namely Insurance, Labor and Social Security and Marketing, being province-level. Our Credit Administration is the only one of its kind in southern China.