The economics department offers a variety of academic degree programs including Bachelor of international economy and trade, economics and finance, Master of the first discipline of applied economics. In addition, the department has a institute of economics and a research center of regulation and competition in economics department. In 2008, the quantitative economics, which is under the first discipline, was named Beijing Municipal Key Construction Discipline.

There are 18 faculty members in the economics department, including 2 professors and 9 associate professors. Among them, 15 teachers have doctor's degrees and 2of them hold post-doctoral degree. 2 members of the teaching team are working on their doctoral degree study, 1 teacher is Beijing Social Science Talent, 3 teachers are Beijing Outstanding Young Teacher, and 1 teacher is Beijing Youth Talent. Many teachers are the member of national institute as executive director or other academic positions, such as Chinese Association of Quantitative Economics, China Industrial Economic Association, Chinese Field Statistical Research, etc.

In recent years, teachers in department of economics insisted on teaching and scientific research, and achieved good social benefits. They have presided 3 National Natural Science Fund Project, 1 National Social Science Fund Project, 6 Project of Education Ministry, 2 Beijing Social Science Planning Project, 2 Beijing Natural Science Fund Project, 1 Beijing Education Scientific Planning Key Project, 4 Projects of Agriculture Ministry and several enterprise projects. They published hundreds of papers, and edited more than 10 textbooks. A teaching and research team in quantitative economics, international trade and industrial economics are gradually formed.