Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (Chinese: 中南财经政法大学) is a university in Wuhan, China. It was founded in 1948 as Zhongyuan University (中原大学, University of Central China), whose financial department later merged with the economic and financial departments from Wuhan University, Sun Yat-sen University, etc., to form the Central South Institute of Finance (later it became the Zhongnan University of Finance and Economics, 中南财经大学) and whose law department merged with other schools' to form the Central South Institute of Law (中南政法学院).
The two universities were subsequently merged and separated throughout the Cultural Revolution and finally merged again to form the university today.
The MBA program of this university was accredited by the Association of MBAs.
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