山东财经大学东方学院成立于2005年6月，是由山东财经大学、山东黄金集团联合举办，以实施全日制普通本科教育为主的高等院校。学校是全国应用技术大学（学院）联盟单位、教育部“数据中国产教融合促进计划”试点高校、全国创新创业实践联盟单位、美国注册会计师协会中国协会（USCPA China Society）理事单位，被誉为“优秀应用型财经人才的摇篮”。

    学校秉持“厚德明志、博学笃行”的校训，本着“以教学为中心，以学生为主体，以服务为根本，以质量为生命”的办学理念，建立了“理论教学+实践教学+素质教育+创新创业教育+心理健康教育”五位一体的教育教学体系，培育了“胸怀天下、勇攀高峰、求真务实、开拓创新”的东方精神，明确了“一体两翼、扎根地方、服务产业、开放融合”的发展战略，走出了一条适应社会经济和产业发展需求，既充分发挥高水平母体学校的支撑优势，又真正体现自身办学特色的发展之路。

  学校积极拓展国际交流与合作，引进国内外优质教育资源，培养具有国际视野的创新型人才。与马来西亚精英大学联手打造“国际专升本、本硕连读、双文凭本科”联合培养人才模式；与英国伯明翰城市大学共建金融管理与实务（专科）国际实验班，前三年在国内学习，获得东方学院专科学历证书，第四年在英国伯明翰城市大学学习，顺利毕业后可获得硕士学位；与新西兰商学院联合打造“3.5+0.5+1”本硕连读项目，（“3.5”表示在国内完成本科前七个学期课程并达到该项目入学要求。“0.5”是指第八学期前往新西兰商学院学习硕士预备课程，完成新西兰国家英语证书五级课程并获得证书，“1”是指该项目学生可以在新西兰林肯大学、梅西大学或坎特伯雷大学攻读硕士学位）。

    学校还与英国、美国、加拿大、法国、德国、台湾、香港等国家和地区高校建立校际合作关系，通过专升本、本升硕、专升硕、寒暑假游学等多种合作模式，为学生提供多种交流深造机会。

Dongfang College, Shandong University of Finance and Economics is located in the world famous resort---Tai’an City, Shandong Province. Tai’an has Jinan, the Spring City on the north and Qufu, the Holy City on the south; the Mountain (Tai), Water (the Spring City) and Saint (Confucius) gather here, thus endowing it a profound culture. With the buildings visually intermingled and running water under the bridge clean and gurgling, the campus has a beautiful environment and unique architectural style and layout with untouchable cultural taste, which fully embodying the harmony of human and environment and the blending of tradition and modernity.

Adhering to the teaching idea of “with teaching as the centre, students as the body, service as the root and quality as the life”, sticking to the school motto of “Virtues, Ambition, Learning and Sincerity” and carrying out the teaching guideline of “Establishing the school by quality, developing the school by characteristics and strengthening the school by talents” and “All for the integrated development of the students”, the school attaches importance to teaching quality and applies itself to cultivating excellent talents of finance and economics.

Departments and Majors

There are over 8000 students in the school majored in four kinds of disciplines, namely economics, management science, physical science and literature.

 Teaching Staff

According to the idea of “Developing the school by talents” and pursuing “Strengthening the school by talents and governing the school by experts”, the school gradually builds a teaching staff combining full time teachers and part time teachers, with the chief lecturing professors and professional as the core and with the lecturers as the backbone. Meanwhile, we energetically introduce high-level talents preparing special investment and treatment for special persons with ability, and rapidly introduce the able academic leaders of every discipline.

Cooperation and Exchanges

Through cooperating with foreign colleges, creating the mechanism of “mutual admit of the credits” and actively experimenting the modes of “2+2”, “3+1” and “4+2”, the school promotes its teaching level. At present, the school has signed cooperation agreement or reached cooperation intent with American Universal Education Centers, Napire University of Britain, University of Mount Saint Vincent of the United States, Soonchunhyang University of South Korea.

Infrastructure

Modern teaching, living and recreation and sports facilities such as the office buildings and teaching buildings complete functions, the students’ apartment and dining-room with all necessary facilities, and standard plastic playground are built. The school now owns the teaching appliances with a gross value of 11 million Yuan and books 20 thousand volumes.

 Campus Culture

Dongfang College, Shandong University of Finance calls for the mainstream of a clear, tender and elegant culture and for the team consciousness to lead the individual development; calls for the spirit of earnestness and opposes the random attitude; the school teaches the students the knowledge of social different, urges them to know themselves and pursue success; encourages the students to choose the orthodox culture instead of radical culture; advocates that students should change themselves instead of taking action all by oneself regardless of other and the collectivity.