国际经济政治学院是辽宁大学国家“双一流”建设学科应用经济学主要承建单位之一，是在继承原国际经济学院、国际关系学院办学优势和历史沿革下于2020年6月更名成立的以培养拥有国际化视野人才为主要特色的学院。学院承担国家“双一流”建设学科应用经济学的世界经济、国际贸易与东北亚合作方向建设。学院同时承担理论经济学辽宁省一流学科的建设任务。学院世界经济专业为国家重点学科。
学院具有高水平的师资力量和学术队伍。宋则行、金明善、冯舜华为本学科奠定了良好基础，程伟、余淼杰为本学科国内著名领军领军学者。学院拥有国家级荣誉称号的高层次人才、国家社会科学基金重大项目首席专家、国务院特殊津贴获得者等在内的优秀教师在学院任教。学院现有教职员工56人，其中专任教师41人，教授13名，副教授15名，博士生导师9名，富有活力的年轻专家多名，教师队伍中有国家级人才。2017年、2022年，辽宁大学应用经济学学科连续入选两轮国家“双一流”建设学科，为辽宁省属高校唯一、东北地区经济学科唯一，国际经济政治学院为主建单位之一。
学院现有国际政治系、世界经济系、数字经济系、韩国学系四个系和一个数字经济虚拟教研室。学院积极开拓联合办学模式，先后与北京大学新结构经济学研究院共建辽宁大学新结构经济学研究中心，与商务部国际贸易经济合作研究院共建中国商务发展研究院（北京）；学院还拥有一批高端研究中心及智库：设有辽宁大学澳门社会经济发展研究中心、辽宁大学东北亚研究院、辽宁大学区域国别研究院、辽宁大学朝鲜·韩国研究中心、辽宁大学东亚研究中心等研究机构；辽宁省世界经济学会秘书处驻院；并与海外学历学者高端科研平台——辽宁大学李安民经济研究院互为支撑。
学院办学层次齐全，拥有从本科到博士的全部办学层次。学院拥有国际政治、朝鲜语、数字经济、国际经济与贸易（二学位）四个本科专业，其中国际政治专业于2021年获批国家级一流本科专业建设点。拥有世界经济、转轨经济学、新国际政治经济学、自由贸易区理论与实务、国际政治、国际关系、外交学、外交学等八个学术型硕士学位授权点和金融及国际商务两个专业硕士学位授权点；学院拥有世界经济、转轨经济学、比较政治经济学、新国际政治经济学四个博士专业授权点；学院还设有理论经济学博士后流动站。
学院现有本科生在校生500人，硕士研究生500人，博士研究生40人。学院学生全国大学生英语竞赛、韩语大赛、“挑战杯”竞赛、“互联网+大学生创新创业大赛”和金融、国际商务等专业竞赛中等都取得了耀眼的成绩。
学院积极开展对外学术交流活动。先后邀请国内外知名学者来院讲学；派出留学生和访问学者到美国、英国和欧洲国家学习进修及讲学，并与美国、俄罗斯、澳大利亚、日本、朝鲜、韩国等多所大学立了广泛的院际交流关系。
建院以来，学院为国家培养了各层次及各类人才将近5000人。毕业生分布在各级党政机关、经济管理部门、金融贸易部门、企事业单位、高等院校、部队和科研院所，许多人已成为单位或部门的领导和业务骨干，为东北经济振兴发展和实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦作出了重要的贡献。
School of International Economics and International Relations is one of the main contractors of Applied Economics, a national "Double-First Class" construction discipline of Liaoning University. Inheriting the advantages and history of the former School of International Economics and School of International Relations, the School was renamed School of International Economics and International Relations in June 2020, aiming to build a School with the main feature of cultivating talents with an international perspective. The School undertakes the construction of World Economy, International Trade, and Northeast Asia cooperation in Applied Economics, a national "Double-First Class" construction discipline. The School also undertakes the construction of Theoretical Economics, a First-class discipline in Liaoning Province. The Department of World Economy is a national key discipline.
School of International Economics and International Relations has a highly qualified faculty and academic team. Song Zexing, Jin Mingshan, and Feng Shunhua have laid a good foundation for this discipline, and Cheng Wei and Yu Miaojie are famous domestic leading scholars in this discipline. The School has outstanding teachers, including high-level talents with national honorary titles, chief experts of major projects funded by the National Social Science Foundation, and special allowance recipients of the State Council. The School employs 56 faculty members, including 41 full-time teachers, 13 professors, 15 associate professors, 9 doctoral supervisors, and many young experts with enthusiasm for scientific research. There are a number of national talents in the faculty. In 2017 and 2022, Liaoning University is the only provincial university whose Applied Economics discipline has been selected for two consecutive rounds of national "Double-First Class" construction discipline and Northeast Economic discipline, and the School of International Economics and International Relations is one of the main contractors of this discipline.
School of International Economics and International Relations consists of four departments: International Politics, World Economy, Digital Economy, and Korean Studies, as well as a virtual teaching and research office for Digital Economy. The School actively explores joint schooling model, co-establishing the Liaoning University Research Center for New Structural Economics with the Institute of New Structural Economics of Peking University and the China Institute of Business Development (Beijing) with Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation.The school hosts several high-end research centers and think tanks, including the Macau Socio-Economic Development Research Center of Liaoning University, the Northeast Asia Research Institute of Liaoning University, the Regional Country Studies Institute of Liaoning University, the Center for North and South Korean Studies of Liaoning University, the East Asia Research Center of Liaoning University, and other research institutions, as well as the secretariat of the Liaoning Association for World Economy in the School. It also maintains a mutually supportive relationship with the high-end research platform for overseas scholars, the Li Anmin Institute of Economics of Liaoning University.
The School offers a complete range of educational levels, from undergraduate to doctoral programs. It has four undergraduate majors: International Politics, Korean Language, Digital Economy, and International Economics and Trade (Second Degree), of which International Politics was approved as a national First-class undergraduate major construction point in 2021; eight academic master's degree programs in World Economy, Transitional Economics, New International Political Economy, Free Trade Zone Theory and Practice, International Politics, International Relations, Diplomacy and Asian and African Languages and Literature, and two professional master's degree programs in Finance and International Business; four doctoral degree programs in World Economy, Transitional Economics, Comparative Political Economy and New International Political Economy; a postdoctoral station in Theoretical Economics.
At present, School of International Economics and International Relations has 500 undergraduate students, 500 master students and 40 doctoral students. Students of the School have achieved outstanding results in the National English Competition for College Students, Korean Competition, National College Student Challenge Cup Competition, China College Students' 'Internet+' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and other professional competitions in Finance and International Business.
The School actively engages in academic exchanges with foreign institutions. It has invited renowned domestic and international scholars to give lectures at the School. It also sends students and visiting scholars to the United States, the United Kingdom, and European countries for further studies and lectures. The School has established extensive intercollegiate exchange relationships with universities in the United States, Russia, Australia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, and other countries.
Since its establishment, the School has trained nearly 5,000 talents of various levels and types for the country. The graduates are distributed in party and government organs at all levels, economic management departments, financial and trade departments, enterprises and institutions, colleges and universities, troops and scientific research institutes, and many of them have become leaders and business backbones of their units or departments, making important contributions to the economic revitalization and development of Northeast China and the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
