Haikou University of Economics (HUE) is a private undergraduate university chiefly based on specialty programmes such as economics, management, engineering, literature, the arts and education. Founded in 1974 as a college, the school was later upgraded to a university by the approval of the Ministry of Education in March 2008. Haikou University of Economics consists of 14 colleges and schools with 47 undergraduate majors, with students from 27 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions nationwide. There are 22,000 full-time students currently, among them 15,000 are undergraduates. HUE has won many academic and honourary titles such as National Non-government Funded Education Advanced Collective, and one of the top 50 universities to get the National Award of Innovative Entrepreneurship. HUE boasts of excellent academic conditions with a beautiful first-class campus. Covering a land area of 1.1 square kilometres and a total construction area of close to 700,000 square metres, the campus has involved an investment of more than 3 billion yuan (CNY). Enjoying well-equipped teaching facilities, HUE has comprehensive and professional experimental and training laboratories. The library is rich in its storage of books with a collection of more than 1.524 million hard copy books, and more than 1.9 million electronic books. Cultural and sports facilities are complete with gymnasium, swimming pools, concert halls, stadium, as well as quality development training base. Providing complete living quarters such as student dormitories, standard hotels, restaurants, canteens and supermarkets, HUE is an ideal academic and living centre for students both home and abroad.
In order to promote education exchange, Haikou University has set up a Chinese Language Training Class for international students. Students of this class who pass the Chinese language proficiency test of HSK4, after one year (or less)training, can apply for Hainan Government Scholarship or University Scholarship and continue their study in certain undergraduate programmes in Haikou University of Economics.

海口经济学院是2008年经国家教育部批准成立的海南省第一所独立设置的民办本科高校。学校的办学历史可以追溯到1974年创办的海口业余大学，历经海口职业大学、海口经济职业技术学院等发展阶段，具有45年办学历史。学校牢固树立应用型人才培养的办学定位，贯彻落实“一个中心”（人才培养），突出“两根主线”（教学、科研），推进“三大建设”（师资队伍、学科专业、条件环境）的发展思路，全面推进“两个转型”（高职教育向本科教育转型，规模发展向内涵建设转型），创业型大学建设扎实推进，办学实力显著增强，人才培养质量稳步提升。

学校办学条件优越。校园占地1800亩，建筑面积120余万平方米；总投资逾30亿元。教学设备设施齐全，教学科研仪器设备总值1.2亿元；图书馆馆藏丰富，环境优雅，馆藏纸质图书152.4万余册，电子图书190万余册；文化体育设施齐全；生活设施完善，为理想的求学胜地。

学校下设中广天择传媒学院、南海音乐学院、雅和人居工程学院、好莱坞华都影视学院、南海电影学院、新丝路时尚•体育学院、德行智华会计学院、聚星电商学院、旅游与民航管理学院、网络学院、外贸外语学院、马克思主义学院、创新创业学院、继续教育学院（培训学院）等14个二级学院及公共外语教学部、公共体育教学部等2个教学部。开设47个本科专业和19个专科专业，涵盖经济学、管理学、文学、工学、艺术学、教育学等6大学科门类；2012年5月通过学士学位授予权评审，成为学士学位授予单位；面向全国27个省、市、自治区招生，目前全日制在校生22000余人，其中本科生15000余人。

学校不断强化内涵建设，蕴育具有特色的应用型人才培养模式，深入推进教育教学改革。现已拥有国家专业综合改革试点项目1个，省级重点（培育）学科1个、实验教学示范中心3个、教学团队8个、特色专业5个、精品课程41门、精品视频公开课1门。积极探索国际合作教育，把加强与国外高校的交流合作定位在提高教学质量、促进教学改革的战略性高度，已与澳大利亚、新西兰、美国、英国、加拿大等国高校建立了合作关系。通过多种形式将国外的优质教育资源引入到学校的教学环节中来，既能够在交流合作过程中切实提高我校的教学质量，又为广大海经学子提供了接受国际化教育的机会和选择。